Originally Posted by
walpurgis
Gererally, properly designed amplifiers and speakers should work together well enough regardless of make. It would be daft for a maker to offer items that are incompatible with other product brands.
There are some exceptions, speakers that are a demanding load and amplifiers that are finnicky about capacitive or unduly reactive loads, but these are not the norm.
Totally concur. However, if it was that simple to match speakers with amps life would be a lot easier... save lugging boxes to demo rooms etc etc.
Truth is no matter how well engineered the amp and speaker is the sound is also influenced by room size, shape or acoustics. So IMHO it is a hi-fi 'yin and yang'.
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