Speaker power handling

The Classe has been sitting idle since the sale of the Magnepans thus the temptation to try it.

My last audition was a single driver speaker with an 18w set amp. The midrange was fantastic but lacked dynamics.

I'm hoping to try something different this weekend after another visit to the dealer.

Rrog,

Not a SS crowd, it's more a sounding like live music crowd. -)

Not because an amp has 800 watts mean he will be using it all, nor will yagimax be using 300 watts rms, most likely 300 watts music peak and only if he decides to go crazy with the volume, if not i don't expect any issues...

Guarantee it will be the best he has ever heard those dynaudio's..

Regards,

Weseixas, It takes a lot more than a 5.5" woofer to sound like live music no matter how much power you have.

Did you think the Dynaudio speakers were rated at 200 watts continuous? I would guess their 200 watt rating is a peak musical signal rating.

Its nice of you to give Yagimax a guarantee of best sound, but if his Classe amp sounds so great, why is he using his PSE amplifier?

Not sure Rrog,

I was only addressing the power situation, not his subjective reasoning for choosing one over the other. I think he did state he has never tried the bigger amp on that speaker as yet.....

I do agree the speaker is small for large scale music, that aside it will still sound it's best when being driven by the larger amp IMO and i never suggested 200 watts RMS, but it will require close to 300 watts peak to meet his db criteria, with out clipping .....

Just saying !!!

regards,

I'm using my old PSE amp because of the lower power and easily within the limits of the Dynaudio without worries.
With fussy speaker loads the Classe easily bests the PSE including the Bryston 4bsst.

Dynaudio also distributes the German made Octave tube amps which I'll borrow this weekend along with hopefully a larger Dynaudio speaker.

As suggested, these monitors may be to limiting for my space and requirements.

thanks,