I was thinking Maggie's too.
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I'm Lawrence.
I was thinking Maggie's too.
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Audio Analogue Pucinni SE
B&W DM607 s2
Chord Shawline X speaker cable
Klotz ic’s
Location: South East Cornwall
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I'm Dominic.
I thought the 3 ohm figure was a typo, but no, the spec clearly states 3 ohms.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/70...9.html?page=18
CD player = Marantz CD6006
DAC/pre = Rotel RC 1572
Power amp = ADA PF201
Speaks = Quadral Chromium Style 6
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
A few years ago I sold a pair of ML CLS2s for a friend, and he provided a NAP 250 to drive them. It kept cutting out due to its thermal protection, and a dealer who came to audition said that he could not buy them on the basis of what he had heard. (They dip down to about 1.5ohms I believe).
I then used my ATC SIA150, and it was fine, even at high levels - many awards, and a Mk 1 will be quite cheap, I paid £800 in '02.
My Dad has a JVC UX-D457S. The supplied speakers are 2 ohms, lol.
S.
Shane Lonergan.
Location: London/Durham
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I'm Lawrence.
Those little systems must have pretty good amps with high current delivery. Either that or they sound a bit crap with the packaged speakers
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They certainly do not sound crap!
I’m not easily impressed, hence once some time back visiting a former members house and hearing his MF lozenge shape CD player through the matching amp, into PMC GB1’s, and thinking how comparatively unimpressive it sounded.
This dinky Panny thing sounds amazing, as I said, possibly because of the super tweeters in the speakers.
When they were first on sale they sold at £600, now, I know in the great scheme of things Hifi, that isn’t a lot of money, but I’ve spent much more on ‘proper ‘ Hifi that didn’t sound as good.
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Bluesound Node 2i
Audio Analogue Pucinni SE
B&W DM607 s2
Chord Shawline X speaker cable
Klotz ic’s
My Quad 510 monoblocks can provide 130W into any load impedance from 2 to 75 Ohm.
Any amplifier capable of driving 4 Ohm speakers should be suitable. The Quad 57s have an impedance which falls to 1.5 Ohm at 10kHz, yet all the Quad amps (303, 405, 510, 606 etc.) drive them well.
Barry
Thing is, I don’t know whether it’s the main body of the unit (amplifier) or the speakers that make it sound so good, possibly a combination of the two...however, the only amp I now have to hand only lists the power as being 60 watts @ 8 ohms, so I’m not sure about connecting the Panny speakers to it...?
It’s an Onkyo A 9211 by the way.
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Audio Analogue Pucinni SE
B&W DM607 s2
Chord Shawline X speaker cable
Klotz ic’s
Surely that is 60 watts into 4 ohms. In any event, I can't see any problems with trying this out at moderate to low levels and seeing how your amp copes. If it gets hot or you have to push the volume control to very high levels than there may be a problem, though I doubt it. This will give you a sense of the performance of the speakers outside the system.