If the amps were being starved for power, they would start clipping and you'd blow the tweeters.
If the amps were pulling way too much from the wall and you had current limiting taking place, you'd pop the AC breakers or amplifier fuses.
Taking the above into consideration, if the speakers have built in protection, you are probably coming up against it. Logic would say that you either need a smaller room or a more efficient / higher power handling speaker.
I ran into a similar situation with a set of speakers quite a while back. Believe it or not, changing the internal speaker wiring made a HUGE difference in the output levels i was able to achieve. No more amp clipping and much better sound quality. Then again, i doubt that those speakers are "choked" like that.
Other than that, 100 dB's at your seated listening position is NOT loud. You are barely getting into "rock & roll" levels at that point. Hopefully, you were just guessing and not basing your figure on any type of actual measurements. Sean
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If the amps were pulling way too much from the wall and you had current limiting taking place, you'd pop the AC breakers or amplifier fuses.
Taking the above into consideration, if the speakers have built in protection, you are probably coming up against it. Logic would say that you either need a smaller room or a more efficient / higher power handling speaker.
I ran into a similar situation with a set of speakers quite a while back. Believe it or not, changing the internal speaker wiring made a HUGE difference in the output levels i was able to achieve. No more amp clipping and much better sound quality. Then again, i doubt that those speakers are "choked" like that.
Other than that, 100 dB's at your seated listening position is NOT loud. You are barely getting into "rock & roll" levels at that point. Hopefully, you were just guessing and not basing your figure on any type of actual measurements. Sean
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