I do believe that you have probably spent around 10K of the poor guy's 4K budget!
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I'm Patrick.
I do believe that you have probably spent around 10K of the poor guy's 4K budget!
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I'm Syed.
When the DMT15's were made they used the same driver (3833) as the Westminster which was their top speaker.
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I'm Arthur.
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 76
I'm Arthur.
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 76
I'm Arthur.
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 76
I'm Arthur.
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 76
I'm Arthur.
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 76
I'm Arthur.
As ever I am very grateful for all of your help. It looks like I am sorting the amp out at the moment. Which just leaves the deck and speakers.
In the mean time I had a couple of questions:
1. This amp will ideally go with Tannoy Ardens or DMT15 IIs. As mentioned I am trying to source a reasonably priced pair of either (if anyone ever hears of ones please let me know). Before this amp was proposed by the community here the consensus was on me getting hold of a Krell KSA100 poweramp. As mentioned before I intend to also build a big sound system for a barn so I can really blast my dub and have a dance. My question is two fold...
1. Can I use the Tannoys along with other speakers and rig them all together to make a monster system or are the Tannoys simply audiophile things and wouldnt work in a barn? Are the big JBLs proposed by Macca (like 10k ones) gonna be better than any big PA system I can string together... I guess my question is for a big barn what is the ultimate dream rig? Do Sound Systems in the Jamaican sense of the word have to built with a single vision in mind?
2. Will I at that point need the Krell or would the Sansui still do the job?
Really friendly steer from Lawrence revealed a cheap deal on some JBLs just down the road from me. I picked these three up for £204. The big speaker has a broken cone. Assuming they work - have no idea - can I just keep buying big speakers like this and daisy chain them together for a big 'Sound System' or does it not work like this, and would I do better simply to save 10k....
Cheers,
Arthur
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Hi Arthur,
I think you need to have a read about resistance and ohms, I cannot at the moment remember it myself, but I think if you put two 4 ohm speakers in the resulting load is 8ohms, if you put then in series see https://geoffthegreygeek.com/calcula...s-in-parallel/
So if the Krell can handle up to 16 ohms then you can arrange your speakers up to this load, beyond that and you will overload the amp. I am not sure if there are other issues?
I am sure others can advise.
At the end of the day, if an amp can drive the speakers and if it is good and does not distort when under its specified load then it should sound good.
Cheers
Adrian
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
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