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Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor "Minimum" Power?

Would the new Bel Canto C5i work with the *original* Cremona Auditors at 88 dB @ 4 ohms? I have read conflicting reports about these speakers being easy and difficult to drive. The Bel Canto is a very modest 60 WPC into 8 ohms and 120 WPC into 4 ohms, but apparently has a pretty high current output at 30 amps and is stable with 3 ohm loads. Any other reason to believe this combo would not be good?

On a tangent, how does an amp have lower power but high current output? Aren't the 2 directly related? I recall from rudimentary Physics (for mathematically disabled Bio majors like myself) that P=i^2(R). Can somebody conceptually explain to me what's going on with the electrons in high power/low current vs. low power/high current?
eugene81
miner42
709 posts
 
Eugene,
Glad to hear you are very satisfied. I was a true Dynaudio fan (still am) but am more than satisfied with my Sonus fabers. Craftsmanship cannot be matched. A beauty to look at and amazing to hear.
ei001h
283 posts
 
Have you tried a low power SET tube amp on your SF Cremona auditor? 
mikexxyz
66 posts
 
Hi Eugene:  I have the Auditor M's but cannot comment on the Bel Canto.

I drive mine pretty easily with an old Classe' Audio Model Seventy amp (150W into 4Ohms).  

The speakers dip down to 4 ohms.  You can see the curves on the i-fidelity website, page 8 of the review.  It's in German but google translate works.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.i-fidelity.net/testberichte/...

Mike

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