Avalon Speaker + Electrocompaniet Amp = Good?


1)I’m using a EC-4.8 Pre-amp and AW-180 Mono-block Power amp now, and interest in Avalon’s Idea or Ascendent II, not sure if my amp can drive these speaker? How's the sound quality ?

2)Also in term of sounds, which speaker has better sound in your opinion – Idea or Ascendent II?

3)Does Ascendent II still in production or already fade out?

PS: My CDP is Esoteric X-03SE, current speaker is Diapason’s Karis bookshelf
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I recommend you listen to the speakers yourself before you buy them. Doing otherwise would be foolish.
Sure, I’ve listen and test the speaker (Idea) in a Audio system Shop, I like it very much, but they use different amp and CDP (Audio Flight 1 CDP, JR Amp). It is not possible for all of me to bring all my gears to test that speaker, that’s why I ask if anybody have experience to use EC amp + Avalon speaker.
I'm driving my Ascendant's with a Theta Intrepid amp (5 Channel 100 watts @ 8 ohms that doubles to 200 watts @ 4 ohms). Your amp doubles to 360 watts @ 4 ohms so I wouldn't think you'd have problem.