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From: brb@philabs.UUCP (Brian Bertan)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: AR speaker info wanted
Message-ID: <27453@philabs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 15:41:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 15:41:57 1984
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The following was said of the AR-11 speakers:

>>Just remember when buying these to use them with an amp of<<    
>>modest power.  30 watts per channel is more than enough to use.<<

I just had a party and I played VERY LOUD music through a pair of 
AR-9LS speakers, which have the same tweeter found in some of AR's
less expensive models.  I was using a Carver amp rated at 
300 watts/channel into 4 ohms.  The amp overheated and shut down,
so you can imagine how much power was used, and my AR's tweeter did
not blow (the amp should not have shut down -- I hear Carver amps
have this problem but we can flame about it some other time).

I agree with nbires!rcd's statement regarding low power amplifier's.
A high power amp supplying clean power is less likely to fry a
tweeter than a low power amp that clips and delivers horrible
harmonics.

                                                  Brian Bertan
						  Philips Labs
						  Briarcliff Manor, NY
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