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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    I'd agree I would think 91 up is needed to keep it real at low volumes, but reducing bass will allow the volume to go up a fair bit without bugging the rest of the family.
    My Harbeths were brilliant at low level listening Grant, they have a sensitivity of about 83db I think.

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    Sure there are some drivers that are easy to drive irrellevent of their sensitivity, but most low sensitive speakers like some current up em. impedance is also a factor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Sure there are some drivers that are easy to drive irrellevent of their sensitivity, but most low sensitive speakers like some current up em. impedance is also a factor.
    Aye think the impedance of the Harbeths makes them easy to drive, six ohms I think?

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    My new builds are 2.8 ohm nominal on the meter, and 95db nominal. but mostly they will be 5 ohm and over 100db. a baby could drive em Its the best thing I ever did tbh and the latest pair are not to shabby either, although are a nominal 12 ohm(wont stay that way I'd hazard a guess). dont know their db rating but would think they are over 92. another easy load.. Gazjam@s Edingtines or however you spell them, are amazing. with a lowly amptastic amp the go really loud and sound fantabidozy. I had one of those amps and my speakers were, at the time not an easy load, although over 90db and it just did not cut the mustard at all.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Kung Fu Dog, there's a lovely pair of Royd Abbots for sale on HiFi Wigwam for under £200. Put in an NVA amp (great match with Royd speakers) as Dave suggested, or look out for a Sony ES integrated, and even have change for a DAC and you have sound that people who have spent more than £800 might wince at.
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