I've read Thiels can be hard for amps to drive. I have a chance to get these speakers cheap (under 300) for my computer room and wonder if I could get away with using an old Pioneer SX 780 at 45 wpc into 8 ohms receiver to drive them. Listening levels here are moderate only. How this receiver would react to a low impedance load I don't know. If need be I could get an integrated as I certainly have plenty of tuners laying around. I don't want or have enough room for separates nor do I want to spend much money on this as it's for background music only. Thanks for any help.
I drove CS2s with a 45W tube amp and at lower to moderate volumes the sound was incredible but the bass was weak. It wasn't until I swapped in a 240W SS amp that they really sang and sounded full range.
I have 2.2's and get great results from a Rotel 1095 200wpc into 5 amp. Its a high current amp. I've had poor results with the old mac 2200, and ok results with the yamaha dsp a1 (120x5). Thiels are wonderful speakers, but bring power....
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