How do you drive 12 Ohm speakers?


Lately I took home a pair of great looking and very impressive sounding Crystalvox (small russian brand) speakers. The speakers are big, use 3 8 inch woofers and have incredibly smooth highs. The problem is that they are rated 12 Ohm nominal and 8 Ohm minimal. With McIntosh the bass is rather loose. I put on my Mac 6900 on 8 Ohm and while I like the sound overall I can't help but wonder - what kind of amps do people usually use with 12 Ohm speakers?
antonkk
It's also possible that these speakers produce woolly bass as an inherent result of their design. A well chosen amp won't necessarily solve this problem. It might, but then again, it might not.

Marty
Macrojack, that resistor likely would be in series with the output of a low impedance amp, not in parallel.

Martykl makes a good point too :)
OOPS!!! Looks like I found a way to tell everybody I'm no tech. Thanks for the correction, Ralph.