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First, hello all. Glad to be apart of the community and looking forward to learning and sharing with you all. Secondly, my question is relatively simple. I'm looking into getting an amp for my system. Speakers are Martin Logan motion 12. Rated at 20-300 watts at 4, 6 or 8 ohms. Right now I'm using my old yamaha rx-v2400 but am wanting to get an amp. I want enough power on tap to avoid clipping and to allow for transient spikes as necessary. I am from the day where speakers were just rated at a particular impedance and RMS power was clearly identified. Then I've read that as long as the impedance is matched I should overpower by 2.5 times the RMS of the speakers? I guess my speakers are rated at 150 RMS? So 375 is good? Could they handle more? I've seen some guys throwing triple and even quadruple the power at their speakers. It's been a while and I'm just confused. Any info would be warmly welcomed!
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Topic - newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - bonzobasher 22:32:53 04/17/15 (11)
- Trust your ears. - ppopp 14:15:17 04/19/15 (0)
- You've gotten good advise so far... - musetap 21:27:51 04/18/15 (0)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - fantja 19:09:57 04/18/15 (0)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - Rod M 18:41:08 04/18/15 (0)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - pictureguy 10:44:09 04/18/15 (0)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - John Elison 00:26:58 04/18/15 (5)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - bonzobasher 06:40:35 04/18/15 (4)
- Either of those amps are a good match for your speakers... - rlw 05:37:16 04/19/15 (0)
- It's really only the first watt that counts.... - Rod M 18:54:34 04/18/15 (0)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - 430cruz 10:32:43 04/18/15 (1)
- RE: newb here first post. getting back into hifi need some a dice on power/impedance - bonzobasher 20:20:04 04/18/15 (0)