adan
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Post by adan on Apr 5, 2021 19:06:15 GMT -5
I just bought B+ Airmotiv Bookshelf speakers (And I just love them) and I have them hooked up to a cheap stereo receiver I bought a decade and some change ago, Insignia 200 watt stereo receiver, does my receiver have enough power to blow out my beloved, new speakers if I put it on max? How loud can I push my new speakers?
A newb to the stereo world. Before this, I just had some 1993 JVC floor speakers inherited to me with a 100 dollar stereo receiver i bought from best buy. Now am trying to dip my toes in the audio world and I'm glad I dipped with Emotiva.
Thank You, Adan
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Post by 405x5 on Apr 5, 2021 19:15:13 GMT -5
I just bought B+ Airmotiv Bookshelf speakers (And I just love them) and I have them hooked up to a cheap stereo receiver I bought a decade and some change ago, Insignia 200 watt stereo receiver, does my receiver have enough power to blow out my beloved, new speakers if I put it on max? How loud can I push my new speakers?
A newb to the stereo world. Before this, I just had some 1993 JVC floor speakers inherited to me with a 100 dollar stereo receiver i bought from best buy. Now am trying to dip my toes in the audio world and I'm glad I dipped with Emotiva.
Thank You, Adan
Perfect! Just use it and don’t worry about it. Discretion should always be in play with the volume, no matter how much power you have (or don’t have). |
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Post by vcautokid on Apr 6, 2021 7:03:37 GMT -5
This is real easy. Before my thoughts, congratulations on your new acquisitions. It easy to tell when you are coming to the limit of your receiver. Listen for clarity,and how diminishes as you get near the limit, also dynamics of the music sound crushed and narrow, the distortion becomes noticeably higher. Those are queues to back down some to get back the most listening pleasure you could derive. Also be mindful of your hearing. Fatigue and hearing damage could result listening to real loud content for extended periods. Find a comfortable level, and allow your content and your gear to express dynamics and fullness it is capable of delivering inside of their performance envelope. Just some easy experimenting and you are golden.
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Post by rbk123 on Apr 6, 2021 8:12:25 GMT -5
It's a common misperception that higher wattage amps are dangerous to speakers, when it's actually the opposite. What will damage the speakers is when your amp/receiver goes into clipping and sends basically a square wave to the speakers. This will happen much easier on a low wattage amp/speaker than a high watt - i.e. A 10 watt receiver will more likely blow those speakers than a 250W amp. Keep your receiver from clipping and you'll be fine.
You can actually overdrive a speaker with a too powerful amp, but that is difficult and would occur at ear-blead sound levels. Most amps will clip sooner than overdrive a speaker.
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Post by KeithL on Apr 6, 2021 8:23:41 GMT -5
The short answer is that your receiver probably could damage your new speakers... But it isn't at all likely to happen unless you drive it into extreme distortion... There shouldn't be any problem at all playing that receiver as loudly as it can go and still play more or less cleanly.
If you were to turn it up so loud it was putting out pure distortion, it could probably succeed in burning out your tweeters. However that won't happen if you're just listening to music - and stop turning it up when you notice it starting to distort.
Note that the same is true of almost any amplifier and any speaker. The individual drivers in a speaker are balanced in such a way that they can handle the amount of power they will need to when playing music. And, with typical music, the lower frequencies consume the most power, and the upper frequencies, handled by the tweeter, the least.
When an amplifier is making extreme distortion, a disproportionate amount of the power goes to the tweeters, which aren't designed to handle it.
This isn't going to happen until the amplifier is making major distortion - and sounding really bad.
Always remember that the markings on the Volume knob show GAIN... and NOT output power. How much power it is delivering at "max" will depend on how loud the input signal is. Likewise, whether you can safely turn it up to "max", or it reaches its maximum clean power output level before that, also depends on the input signal.
(With a very loud input signal "maximum power" might occur long before the Volume knob is "turned all the way up".)
However, as long as you use your ears, and stop turning it up when it starts to distort, then you'll be fine.
I just bought B+ Airmotiv Bookshelf speakers (And I just love them) and I have them hooked up to a cheap stereo receiver I bought a decade and some change ago, Insignia 200 watt stereo receiver, does my receiver have enough power to blow out my beloved, new speakers if I put it on max? How loud can I push my new speakers? A newb to the stereo world. Before this, I just had some 1993 JVC floor speakers inherited to me with a 100 dollar stereo receiver i bought from best buy. Now am trying to dip my toes in the audio world and I'm glad I dipped with Emotiva.
Thank You, Adan
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adan
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Post by adan on Apr 6, 2021 13:36:00 GMT -5
Thank you all for the responses, you guys ease my mind a little, I'll do my best to stay away from extreme distortion and clipping. So now that I know my receiver is fine (at least for now, upgrade in future), I think I'll get the Airmotiv SE8 Flex Subwoofer in May, thanks again!
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