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Is it normal for Magnepan LRS speakers to distort at high volume?

Posted by g_greenamyer@yahoo.com (A) on August 10, 2022 at 22:07:00

Little confused here. I hear people say you needs lots of power to drive Magnepan LRS speakers properly. Ok, to I upgraded my amp to an Musical Fidelity A3 dual mono integrated amp. Supposedly it does 180 watts into 4 ohms and that amp is high current design. Well with cd, I can get it pretty darn loud with no audible distortion. But to get the same volume, with vinyl I have to go up louder with the volume knob. I notice that sometimes once volume know goes up past lets say 1:00 o clock, sometimes I will hear distortion / breakup. What gives. What is happening, are the speakers reaching their "limits". Small surface area? Normal? Crazy thing is that the volume knob goes all the way to 6:00 o clock in terms of loudness. I would imagine that if I even attempted to increase to volume to that level, speakers would blow up. Ger.

Edits: 08/10/22

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