I was at a dealership yesterday chatting with two other customers who own very expensive 12 watt amps. We were listening to custom built horn systems and I assumed that is what we all ran. I was surprised that one ran a pair of 89 db/w tower speakers. It wasn’t surprising to me that these amps can handle such speakers, it was just that he had $70k or more of amps and linestage powering so comparatively modest speakers.
How much power needed to drive 91db speakers?
Sonus Farber lists the sensitivity of my speakers at 91 db SPL@ 1 meter @4 ohms. They also say I should use 50-450 watts of power. My PS Audio amps pump out 500 watts @4ohms, so the max isn’t a problem, but if I switched to something 15-50 class A watts, would that be more than enough power?
Thanks in advance.