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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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tomic601
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used a stacked pair with Crown 300’s in the 80’s for a Punk/Rockkabilly band PA

pretty sure you will just hurt yourself IF you dont cliip your amps....

of course I used hearing.  protection.....
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tls49
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La Scalas with 250 watts available.

Loud!!! And lots of it.

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roxy54
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devaultcarl1,

Think instead of how LITTLE power they can take, and then try a 300b amp. It will sound heavenly. 

grinnell
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I use a 2 watt SEP amp with my klipsch quartets (97.5db)

can get plenty loud.  very nice at low volumes

wolf_garcia
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I punish my Heresy IIIs with a massive 12 single ended tube watts per side. They can take it, but after maybe a couple of watts I can't...too loud.
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