How to Choose Speakers Appropriate for My Amp

Price point: Entry level. Think someone who's trying to dip their big toe into this world. I'm sure the Devores are wonderful, but they are well outside the realm of possibility.

Size of room: Roughly 18'x10'x9'

Sonic Presentation: I don't know that I have the knowledge and vocabulary to express that. As I said, I'm just beginning the journey. I'm still learning, and want to learn.

I appreciate the advice, but as I said, I have the amps, they pretty much fell into my lap. If I were to buy speakers for amps, I'd have to find some speakers, buy them and then buy amps to match. I'd love to be able to do that, but the budget wouldn't allow it.

I understand it may not be ideal, but it's the situation I'm in. Even with some repair needed, I'm likely to come out an order of magnitude cheaper than had I have bought them off another user's shelf. I'm literally $150 into the amps and phono stage at this point.

Thanks again,
Andy

At a price like that, the Time Windows sound like a tempting option. 

millercarbon,

The funny thing is that before the amp appeared I’d been upgrading and modifying my home theater system with an eye towards simplifying it, at least operationally. That was how I ended with with the B&O turntable. There certainly are better tables out there, but it still is of reasonable quality and it’s as simple as it got. It needed a little bit of mechanical adjustment and a new belt, but setup consisted solely of installing the cartridge, balancing the tonearm and setting the tracking force. No alignment issues, etc. These amps have greatly changed all of that, but not in a bad way. My backup turntable will make it’s way to my receiver, where it was before and the B&O will make the move. Who knows, once I get the amps and speakers sorted, further turntable upgrades will be in my future. But that’s another discussion entirely.

That’s all definitely great advice above. I found a nearby shop that works on vintage tube stuff that can give them a once over and I’m bringing them by tomorrow. I haven’t hooked them up yet due to the fact that I didn’t have an external phono stage with an adjustable output, just a fixed output POS Pyle mini phono stage. I didn’t want to hook anything up w/o a way to start low and work it’s way up. The MOSCODE will give me that, and I pick it up tomorrow morning.

I’ve also read similar reviews of it. Some like it, some don’t, but for the price there’s as close to zero risk financially as could be possible. There amps and the MOSCODE came from the same seller and I’m willing to bet there was a deal on speakers that I missed.

Once I verify the suspected good amp and repair the other I have a pair of bookshelf speakers I’ll start messing around with. They’re 8ohm, though the sensitivity could definitely be better (89dB). That will at least allow me to play with my new toys until something more permanent arrives.

Thanks,
Andy

The system built around the tube amps will be completely separate from the home theater. It will be in a completely different room that will likely be set up primarily for listening to records through this specific system. My main living space, where the ht is, would be terrible to add this system to.