I have a post it note on top of my preamp “scotch or beer, lower the volume”
had nightmares in the late 80’s early 90’s with smaller speakers. Not with my,modded CV D-8 pairs. Power hungry monkey coffins.
After the right side binding posts literally turned to melted red/black crayon on my old Onkyo m504, I saved and have never had an amp with less than 250+ WPC!
ONE EXCEPTION, bought a 20 year old pair of odyssey stratos many many years ago,sat in my basement for a few years til I could save the scratch ,….and proving Klaus is a damn good dude, on his way back from an audio show , he stopped at my house, picked up the amps to be upgraded! Called me in a month or two, we met almost halfway so I could pick them up.
Those,amps rated at 180 or 200 WPC ?? Are the lowest watt amps I’ve had in years. Will say, ….they do drive my modded D-9 pair very well, where as other amps have shown a lot of strain and some just barely chugging,along.
they are about 3.5 - 4.5 Ohms, power hungry little buggers! The upgraded Odyssey kismet really control them nicely, I’m not sure the output of the amps at 3- 4.5 Ohm load, but they get somewhat warm after 3 hours of jamming’ thin lizzy, frank Marino, scorpions, Gary Moore, venom, Motörhead, tank, forbidden, riot, onslaught, etc etc etc…. They,do hold up well, and never miss a beat. I would think the kismets would hit 325 - 350 at 4 Ohms. Maybe a little more as the impedance drops below 4 Ohms.
Used 2 carvin dcm 2500 pair as monos, they didn’t last too long being pro amps, I was happy with the open sound and guitar n bass crunch.
The Emotiva xpa-1 pair would get real hot,….had to put fans on them.
QSC pl-340 is reliable and will drive anything I hook her up with.
anyway, back on track, sorry for the hijack……
