advice on powering my martin logan vistas


hi,
i am getting martin logan vistas and am hoping that my nad c272 will be enough power but wanted to some opinions. the martin logans do not have an internal amp for the woofer and the nad puts out 150 into both 4 and 8 ohms. I am wondering if the 150 is enough or if i should get another and bridge them. Any thoughts, and thanks, i sometimes like to play loud and all genres.
audioflyer67

Showing 1 response by almarg

No, don't use the amp in bridged mode with the Vista. A bridged amp "sees" a load impedance equal to the impedance of the speaker divided by 2. So it would see the Vista's nominal 4 ohm impedance as 2 ohms, and its 1.2 ohm impedance at 20 kHz as 0.6 ohms. The amp undoubtedly would not do well into that heavy a load. Note that the C272 literature only provides a bridged mode power rating for 8 ohm speakers.

In non-bridged mode the C272 appears to be able to provide large amounts of dynamic (short term) power into low impedances, which increases the likelihood that you'll have sufficient power with just the one amp.

Regards,
-- Al