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Waiting for a call back from Emo.

2) At +3 the music sounded outstanding with no hint of strain, at +4 shutdown time.



Oh boy! I didn't realize that it shut down. I can see your predicament now. You had 200W going great with 100W of headroom to spare. The problem is, you can't make use of that 100W given the resolution of your Denon's gain knob. Ouch! Maybe the speaker is closer to 3 Ohms or slightly less during your song sessions. How about turning the channel gain (not the main volume but the individual channel) up 0.5 dB. That might get you what you need.

It sounds like another great feature on the Emo would be a gain trim. This would be a control that would allow you to adjust the gain very finely.