Da Vinci Speakers

[Heypal]

My brother just picked up a pair of Da Vinci tower speakers. There max power is just over 400 watts a piece. With this kind of power handling, does it pay to go and buy a run of the mill 100 watt by 5 channel (Sony, JVC, Yamamha,etc.) receiver? Just hate to have these kick *** speakers, only to short them with nominal power.

 

[ruffryder]

My brother just picked up a pair of Da Vinci tower speakers. There max power is just over 400 watts a piece. With this kind of power handling, does it pay to go and buy a run of the mill 100 watt by 5 channel (Sony, JVC, Yamamha,etc.) receiver? Just hate to have these kick *** speakers, only to short them with nominal power.

You want to match rms power of the speakers to the receiver and vice versa.

 

[Mad Max Performance]

That and AMPERAGE. All the wattage in the world isnt worth a hoot if it isnt a high-current amp. You get what you pay for. Bottom line.

 

[Superjag]

That and AMPERAGE. All the wattage in the world isnt worth a hoot if it isnt a high-current amp. You get what you pay for. Bottom line.

There is a fair amount of truth in that. Don't be concerned as much with the amount of power so much as the amount of clean power. Look at the distortion levels produced at the rated output (obviously lower distortion is better). Also, as madmax said, amperage and the power supply play a big role too.

As an example, I have an older Carver amp and preamp. The amp is only rated at 75 or 100 watts per channel, but the distortion levels are obscenely low, and the power is extremely strong and clean. It will blow the doors off (in terms of both volume and sound quality) any low- or mid-quality (stuff you can buy at Best Buy) amp which has a much higher overall power output rating. Remember, "watts" is a unit of energy, not a measure of volume.
All other things being equal, you are generally better off buying some of the "cheaper" higher end equipment (stuff like Denon, NAD, etc.) with a lower wattage rating than buying a Sony or Pioneer with a higher wattage rating, because the higher-end companies tend to be more concerned with a clean power than the amount of power.

Feel free PM me any questions.

 

[HSR]

Buddy of mine used to play dances etc..we'd carry in his Bryston 500 watt amps(2) and Bryston pre-amp and all the rest.Guys would be impressed then we'd carry in the Bose 901 seriesV speakers and first thing they'd say is "ya got more speakers???'....nope.Hour later there asking to turn it down a bit but does it ever sound nice!!!!!!!!Now he runs 802 bose with bose bass bins and it rattle the windows off the neighbours house,,,,,,,,,,,6 house down!!!Clean power is the ticket.BTW the 901's are mine now.