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RE: I thought they would sound better..

Posted by otari (A) on November 21, 2007 at 18:35:05

In Reply to: RE: I thought they would sound better.. posted by bobinaz on November 19, 2007 at 20:04:10:

The Onkyo amp is definately not up to the KEF's. The amp may spec 170W at 8 ohms however it does not double down at 4 ohms.

You need a better amp. What you have now is a high-performance speaker being driven by a mid-fi japanese amp. If you owned a Ferrari, you wouldn't put regular gas in it, however that's what you are doing to those KEF's.

I'd search Audiogon for something like a Classe' CA-200. Well built and reasonable on the used market, and has enough current to get you going properly with your KEF's.

Best,

otari :-)



My mother-in-law, after seeing the Levinson 33H amps in my listening room: "Those are the nicest electric room heaters I've ever seen".

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