No, you will reach a point where it is too loud for you, way before you will damage the speakers. Trust your ears to not turn it up too loud. |
Its crucially important they be matched because as everyone knows the amplifier puts out its maximum power the whole time and will quickly burn out the speakers unless carefully matched. Unless that is you got one with a volume control that works. In that case no, its irrelevant. |
No. If you are actually listening.
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Never enough power!
My speakers are max peak at 250.
Amps are 650 RMS@8ohm, 1000W@4 ohm.
never an issue.
The more power the better!
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It would work fine.
So would 100 Watts. Probably so would 50.
Go with your best sounding best deal.
Best,
E
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It's no problem to run 150 watt speakers with a 225 watt amps. The amp is only going to output as much power as your volume setting determines. Most listening is actually going to be in the 5 to 15 watt area.
Getting a more powerful amp is generally desired. It's not because you want all that power. It because you want the large power supply with larger transformer and capacitance bank. This provide a much smoother sound with better current delivery to support strong bass and midbass signals, even if it's at low to medium volume levels.
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Too much power is like sex,you can never get enough.
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Op it's not usually the amount of on hand power, it's the "quality" of power on hand... If the amp is well behaved, and isn't driven to pass a bad signal, chances are your speakers, will never have a problem.
Continual "clipping", fuse blowing, overheating, all the signs of abuse, will take their toll. Just like anything else... Keeping things tight, clean, routed, and off the ground, will pay dividends also...
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You're more likely to damage your speakers with an underpowered amp. |
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No, really. Audiophile annals chock full of tales of speakers blown out by flea watt SETs. |
The reason that an under-powered amp will be more likely to blow speakers is that people will want to turn up the volume. You will reach a point where the amplifier power supply runs out of gas and the output signal is actually clipped or "flat-lined". This flat-line DC current will ruin tweeters very quickly and could damage other parts of the woofers and crossovers.
It's always more healthy to get an overpowered amp so that you always have a clean signal output to the speakers. It's better to send a "clean" high powered spike to the speakers. They can handle a one time spike that is over their rated power easier than they can handle a "clipped flat-line DC". It's very easy to hear when the speaker reaches maximum excursion and you can just back off on the volume (and don't hit those levels again).
With amp clipping, it's actually harder to hear when this happens. You could be "hearing" a somewhat clean sound, but the clipping is occurring and slowly damaging your tweeter voicecoils.
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Yup that same 2-18 watt SET, built with keeping your speakers safe (in mind) can be the worst.
When an owner thinks "WHAT can that little sucker do?".. BUT not have some of those GREAT safeguards built in. Answer: Burn everything up.. Overheating... and more so because, people tend to PUSH, the mighty "FLEA". There are a lot of good designs, vigilance is always your best friend but fuses no matter the design, still aren't fast enough for some driver/amp failure, no matter the reason.
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It’s clipping from running an amplifier that’s not powerful enough for the load that damages speakers.
Its more than just the power rating you need to understand, as some manufacturers use peak measurements for RMS values. Look for a well designed, shielded and sized PS. It’s the foundation for any great sounding system. |
More power is welcomed, driving at full blast is not in either case. Underpower you burn the tweeters, overpower you burn xovers and woofers.
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