Using Professional Amps On Home Theater Speakers
. My room is 70 feet long, 22 feet wide with a 22 foot high ceiling. My Room With The Screen Rolled Up My Room With The Screen Rolled Down As you can see, this room is much larger than most conventional home theaters, hence the inquiry into a commercial application. Of course the Kappa 9 were intended to be used as front main two-channel speakers, I've just happened to have managed to accumulate four pairs of them over the past ten years and wish to put them to good use in my home theater since I already have them on hand. . |
. The Kappa 9 will bring the Sunfire 5 x 400 to its knees....it won't wake up the Kappa 9, they just don't have the muscle at 4 ohms and below to get the job done. I've owned the Sunfire Signature stereo amp at 600 wpc and they performed only satisfactorily with the Kappa 9, I needed two of the Sunfire Signature amps in a biamp configuration for superior results. . |
. Ckoffend, I used Carver Silver 9t monoblocs (900 wpc @ 4 ohms) to power them. One pair of monoblocs did a good job, but with two pair of monoblocs in a biamp config, the speakers take a quantum leap and becomes a totally different speaker in a whole 'nother league. I had five pairs of those monoblocs and sold all of them, they were 20 years old. I suspected things may start to go wrong with them in the near future, so I sold them before they started to fail. The fees Carver charges to fix them was more trouble than it was worth. I also used the Sunfire Signature (1200 wpc @ 4 ohms) stereo amp to power them. I also needed two of those also to get the most out of the speakers...the Carver monoblocs were better than the Sunfire amps. I don't know what they were designed for, but one pair of bi-amped Kappa 9 can fill this room with ear-splitting sound without breaking a sweat with no distortion. I had considered getting rid of the speakers too because they are so hard to drive. . |
