small red lights flash on my Nakamichi PA-7

If you need more than 300 high current watts for ANY speaker, that is one friggin' inefficient speaker. So...the witness has not answered the question...what speaker are you using? Well? Your honor...this witness is to be held in contempt!

Need to do their best your Wolfness.LOL Are you related to Hugo Wolf, the one whose buried about 20 ft from Schubert ?

Schubert said:

Are you related to Hugo Wolf, the one whose buried about 20 ft from Schubert?

Why don't you just borrow over and ask good ol' Hugo yourself? ;-)

Don't take offense, Schubert, I couldn't help myself. It's been a tough week and I'm getting a little punchy!

Wolf, I'm not disagreeing with your experience, as I too, have had experience with the Nak amp, and 200 watt Adcom amps with this type of LED indicator. It will be very easy for these LED's to blink when using speakers with an 85-86db sensitivity in a larger room, playing music with a wide dynamic range moderately loud. I'm sure you realize the amp/speaker relationship is logarithmic, and not linear. A very slight increase in a dynamic peak will require quite a bit more amplifier power.

Here is an article about this amp using different speakers. Check out the next to last paragraph.

http://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/nakamichi-pa-7-amplifier/

Joe, download the manual for GFA-5500 here, and read the section "Instantaneous Distortion Alert LED's". This is basically what a manual for the PA-7 would say.

http://www.adcom.com/manual/cat_view/68-manual/44-stereo-amplifier.html

No sweat Swamp , if you dish it out need to take it too. Life is hard.Wolf really is buried in Vienna right next to Brahms who is
buried right next to Schubert

Just a comment Wolf, didn't think you were.