Klipsch Cornwall III with Bryston 4B SST2 / BP17 ?


I have the opportunity to put these together. My thinking is that it won't be good match but was wondering if anyone has had the experience of hearing these together. Any input would be great
jamo1

Showing 1 response by learsfool

I would strongly agree with Viridian and Mapman - this would be WAY more power than those speakers would ever need, and I would add that this would really be contrary to the design of the speaker to put that much power through it. I'm not saying you have to use a flea-watt amp with them (in fact, the great thing about high-efficiency speakers is you can pretty much drive them with anything you want), but they will mate much better with tubes for sure. IME, most of the people who bitch about horn speakers being bright or shrill are the same people who insist on pumping hundreds of watts through them....I drive my Cornwall 2's with a tube amp that does between 21 and 35 watts per channel, and you could get away with as little as 8 watts, I would think. Possibly even less.