After doing some more stress testing tonight (gosh your going to have me blow something up trying to find the limits) I am starting to think the Stratos is better suited for you because your not going to be happy until you can kill small animals with SPL levels and I just dont think the Khartago case and heatsinks can get rid of the heat fast enough for the kind of abuse your dreaming of dishing out. I have not been able to shut mine down, Im not sure if they even have any thermal protection or not, But they were getting pretty hot. to the point of not being able to hold my hand in certain areas for more than a few seconds. (This is playing the pirates of the carribean soundtrack) Actually I think I might have to buy a couple new woofers at some point because a couple of times they were rattling/buzzing kinda bad. But ummmmmm... It also felt like I was in the theater room with the Ep600 too. Poor little 6.5inch woofers.
I am extremely pleased with my Khartago's but i dont listen to music at 100-105 db's from 12 feet away. For that purpose I would have chosen the Stratos mono extreme's or even something MORE powerfull, Can you say Mcintosh Mc2KW or perhaps Symphonic Line Kraft 400 mono's! (520lbs EACH, IIRC) Klaus knows his products better than anyone else, I dont know where the limits are on these amps because Im not brave enough (stupid enough?) to find them. You can tell him that I got them too hot to touch for any amount of time and I didnt want to go any further driving the 80's at levels im assuming you also want to achieve and see what he reccomends, Perhaps they were just starting getting warmed up
They are powerfull but do have their limits obviously.
EDIT: I'm going to give Klaus a call in the next day or two because reading on the Audiocircle forum i dont think they are supposed to be getting this hot. I'll Keep you updated!
