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In Reply to: Stereophile's Sam Tellig posted by chocolate_lover9999@yahoo.com on March 8, 2007 at 18:38:37:
Finding a 90+ dB efficient speaker these days "voiced" or rather designed to work well with typical ~50 WPC solid state is very difficult. I know because I own a 50 WPC solid state amplifier of excellent pedigree (IMO) in the Naim NAP150 and recently upgraded my speakers. One of my criteria was indeed "easy to drive" insofar as nominal 8-ohm load and reasonable efficiency.I settled on Spendor S6e which met my criteria here.
The current trend is "mega watt" amplifiers. Go to Musical Fidelity's website and you get this page to read relating super wattage requirements to dynamics, peaks and loudness.
As with everything in high end audio, trade offs are inevitable. A key design principle for good sound to me is using ONE PAIR of output devices per channel (or even single-ended or, in the case of Naim, quasi-complimentary). This results in transparency, rhythmic coherence and resolution. One such "super amp" following this ethic is the Dartzeel (sic?). Normally, though, you get true "high fidelity" without substantial cost (since your output devices, heat sinks and transformer are the main costs and big wattage requires these in spades.
The inevitable downsides are reduced current drive, drive capability into low and/or reactive impedances and peak wattage capability. So your headroom and dynamics suffers somewhat into "typical" speakers, which are around 6 ohms average and 87 dB efficient these days.
So what. You picks your poison. So you don't get super duper loudness and dynamics and orchestral peaks get truncated somewhat. But the upsides IMO outweigh the downsides.
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