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In Reply to: RE: You posted in Vintage posted by E-Stat on January 19, 2015 at 10:13:54
I did, several times. I even put a down payment on a demo pair at a dealer in Toronto. I was young, and the spec. sheet said 50 or 60 watts minimum, and I had a 70 WPC receiver, so I thought I was good to go. Then a local Dayton-Wright dealer in Buffalo set my naïve ass straight about watts not being watts. I got my deposit back.
I ended up with a pair of Ohm F, then Dahlquist DQ-10s. I seemed to gravitate toward power hungry speakers back then.
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...and I had a 70 WPC receiver, so I thought I was good to go
They did need more power, but their reactive load was legendary requiring amps with beefy output stages.
That is one of the reasons why Pass demoed them as the Threshold amps were a perfect match. The dealer who I worked for in the 70s originally used a Dunlap-Clarke amp (with no less than Dan D'Agostino as rep) then discovered Threshold and stayed with that line. First used an 800A then a Stasis 2.
That's what I get for posting at 3AM.
What I meant to imply was that I didn't understand speaker loads, impedance curves, etc. back then. 70 watts might have been OK with an amp which could handle the difficult load the Dayton-Wrights presented. My Scott (or was it Harman Kardon?) receiver certainly didn't qualify!
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