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How much power can a pair of Klipsch La Scalas take ?

I have two emotiva 2gen 2 amps and I was wondering if I can safely run my La Scalas on them. They rate the speakers at 100-400 Watts at 8 ohms.  My amps are 250 rms at 8ohms. And 500 at 4 ohms. I’ve herd Klipsch speakers act more like 4ohm speakers than 8. I up graded the crossover birds and horn tweeters from bob Crites and they sound amazing. So I don’t want to hurt them .
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La Scalas are no where near 4ohms nominal.  They are so efficient that your amp will only feed them on average about 20w/ch and "maybe" 75w with peaks in an average sized room.  With that said, I hope your Emos are dead quiet because if not you could easily hear the noise floor during quiet passages.


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Thanks bill, I bought the La Scalas to keep up with my chorus speakers. The chorus speakers would drown out any speaker I try and run with them. The La Scalas are about as sensitive as the chorus speakers
so there a good match sound wise. But power handling not so much.
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And on the noise I bought a mapleshade noise suppression ground loop with double helix wound power strip.the lows are pretty black👍
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