You can take Jadis' JA800 mono blocks , thats 4 chassis at like 150+ pounds each, and pair these monsters witha say Wilson 85bd monster, and it will indeed sound likea wet blanket has been thrown over the speakers = the JA800 has been rendered down to garbage, with all its pure tube experience sucked bone dry by a low efficiency xover dinasaur speaker.
AS larry says above, , massive power is not going to deliver super high fidelity, not when the speaker is below 90db efficiency.
BIg power amps is not going to make magic happen if the speaker is sucking the life blood out the amperage.
The only way you can acheive super high fidelity is via super high sensitivty speakers = aka the new Full Range speakers. (caveat, Vox does have quite a few 91db speakers, but we are talking a TRUE rating, not fudged, and its a clean nearly flat sensitivity across the entire fq spectrum,,, more important, extremely low distortion which offers 91db acceptable)
Speakers rule,
They are the Kings in your system, the amp/source serve the speaker as ministers.
The speakers is The King.
Most xover/low sens designs , please deduct 2db from the manufacturers spec claims.
Your 87db is now a miserable 85db. = Good luck with that efficiency.
AS larry says above, , massive power is not going to deliver super high fidelity, not when the speaker is below 90db efficiency.
BIg power amps is not going to make magic happen if the speaker is sucking the life blood out the amperage.
The only way you can acheive super high fidelity is via super high sensitivty speakers = aka the new Full Range speakers. (caveat, Vox does have quite a few 91db speakers, but we are talking a TRUE rating, not fudged, and its a clean nearly flat sensitivity across the entire fq spectrum,,, more important, extremely low distortion which offers 91db acceptable)
Speakers rule,
They are the Kings in your system, the amp/source serve the speaker as ministers.
The speakers is The King.
Most xover/low sens designs , please deduct 2db from the manufacturers spec claims.
Your 87db is now a miserable 85db. = Good luck with that efficiency.