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Looking to change from Thiel 7's

I am going to get rid of the Thiels. I am not very happy with them. I have had to have the 7'2 rebuilt twice and the same with the 3.6's. I am running Classe Omega amps and pre amps with Cardas cables. I would like reccomendations on a good speaker that can handle the Omegas. I do like to turn it up at times ans am looking for something that still has the sound quality but also can take a beating from the Omega's.
Thanks for any thoughts.
wirlybird13
unsound
7,329 posts
 
Perhaps the speakers need to be repaired?
nealhood
199 posts
 
Magnepan 20.1s. A great match with the Omega amps. Or just about any amp for that matter. A speaker well worth auditioning.
studioray
42 posts
 
It is **possible** that there is something else "spiking" in your system or power supply? Over the years I've twice had defective ampflification that toasted my drivers (usually at normal playback levels and once during power-up). A swap out of amplifiers remedied the situation. The funny thing was, these energy spikes were not even audible. I have a recording studio and over the years have also blown DOZENS of drivers in various speakers through over-driving or carelessness (easy to do at 2am after a 12-hour session), but I know which times it was beacuse the speakers were given more than they could handle and which it wasn't. Good luck.

Ray
bostonjim46
8 posts
 
Studioray is right. I've read that amplifier clipping and distortion is worse for speaker than good clean power.
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