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Post by creimes on May 9, 2019 16:33:22 GMT -5
> I'm an easy going cool cat  Or is he?.....   |
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Post by leonski on May 15, 2019 17:08:08 GMT -5
2 other speaker factors influence what you get......
1. Sensitivity. this is how loud a given speaker plays with 1 watt input.......and varies considerably.
2. Actual load. Some speakers are very bad loads, regardless of impedance or sensitivity. When you look at them from an electrical standpoint, they look like a capacitor or inductor to the partnering amp.
That characteristic varies across the frequency band and if very extreme one way or the other at a very low impedance, than you can have trouble.....
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Post by geebo on May 15, 2019 17:15:35 GMT -5
I ran 5 4 ohm speakers with a Gen 1 XPA-5 for a couple years with no ill effects whatsoever.
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Post by Bonzo on May 15, 2019 19:03:08 GMT -5
Here's what I would say....sucking...blowing...pushing very hard... This thread is a classic. 😆 |
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Post by creimes on May 15, 2019 19:33:41 GMT -5
Here's what I would say....sucking...blowing...pushing very hard... This thread is a classic. 😆 Pushing, Pounding, Sucking, Blowing pretty much everything my speakers do 😂🍻 |
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Post by strindl on May 16, 2019 0:03:22 GMT -5
I'll add my experience with XPA amps to this. I have a pair of XPA2's, an XPA5, and a pair of XPA1's. They are all driving 4 ohm speakers and none have ever gotten anything more than just warm. As Keith has mentioned, just leave room around the amps so they can breathe. That means don't stack anything on top of them, put them on top of another heat producing device, or place them on any type of carpeted or padded surface.
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Post by krauley on May 16, 2019 13:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by selind40 on May 16, 2019 13:19:35 GMT -5
looks like i will find out myself  ![]() did a crappy job resizing that  Great picture for those of us that have tried to envision the size's of the T2 vs T1.....and that center is HUGE. I thought my Boston Acoustics VR12 was a monster....holy crap batman!!! |
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Post by krauley on May 27, 2019 18:39:15 GMT -5
An update to my original post on using 4 ohm speakers combined with 8 ohm speaker. After reconfiguring my system with the new airmotivs and listening many times to music and having watched plenty of bluray movie everything is running smooth and sounding good. For the first few days i would get up every 30 minites to an hour to check my amps for heat, none. I ran dirac after having the speakers for 3 or 4 days of break in and things look great, sound great and are running great without issues. The 4 ohm scare has passed and I have broken through  it appears not everything on the internet is true lol. |
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it appears not everything on the internet is true lol. 