Help me choose a speaker match for my Line Magnetic 805ia tube amp under $10K
I have no problem driving them with this amp, and 10:00 on the volume is getting pretty loud. And they sound fantastic. Lets remember that the setting of a volume control's position has not bearing on how loud it is or how much louder it can get. You could be right under clipping or miles away. How many dB is pretty loud? |
@freesole @Ramtubes It would be my recommendation to listen very closely to what Ramtubes has to say. I believe Ramtubes is Roger Modjeski, Engineer and owner of Music Reference Amps, which are some of the most respected amps in the business. You can read Richards Bio here http://www.ramlabs-musicreference.com/. If he is willing to help you, I would be seeking his advise, like a dog on a bone. I think he was trying to give you some insight to relativity of the damping factor and the LM508ia., and how it is a important consideration when pairing this amp with a speaker. I was unable to find the dampening factor for this amp, but as a general rule of thumb SET amplifiers have very high output impedances in the order of 1.5 to 3.0 ohms opposed to 0.1 for a typical solid state amp and 0.8 for a typical push/pull tube amp. These numbers represent the ability of the amplifier to control the woofer motion relative to the amplifiers output impedance. |
