Reminisce about speakers. WAS: Amp/speaker recommendations? (Almost an ADVERT :-))

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

What Keith says is dead right.
There was a What Hi-Fi (Or Hi-Fi Choice, cant remember which.) review a
few years back the put good old copper twin and earth cable up against a
variety of branded speaker cables and the t&e was in the top 5!
It only becomes a poor option when its draped across your living room
floor! This doesn't meet with a high WAF level, I know because I did it
in the very first house we had, was running from my Arcam Alpha 5 Amp
and my TDL RTL4 floor standers. Still the best pair of speakers I've
ever owned, amazing base response! They have sat languishing in the
spare room for a year now, along with my JPW AP2's. Another MIGHTY FINE
set of speakers, even with REAL black ash veneer! Also got a pair of
Eltax Monitor 7 floor standers in beech sat in the same room.

All these speakers have been made redundant since the whole house audio
was finished :-(
Guess I am just going to have to let them go to a new home but its like
saying goodbye to part of my youth!

Many thanks

Rob Mouser



-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Butler [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 October 2003 10:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Amp/speaker recommendations?

Quoting Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx>:
> > Is that really gonna be "quality" enough over 30m?
>
> Its NICE THICK COPPER. It will be fine. The only thing that will
> lessen the sound quality will be the acoustics of the showroom. If

okey doke.  I bow to your superior knowledge, master doxey ;)

> you want to spend a bit more then buy 2.5mm 3 core flex but it isnt
> neccessary. 1.5mm is rated at 15A and 100W into 8 ohms is only 3.5A
> so it is plenty thick enough, added to which, the average output
> level from the amp will probably be less than 20W if it is just for
> background music.

K, ta.  Do you think 100w is about right, or would smaller do (it's a
fairly
big showroom, but as you say, volumes will be fairly low).
Having problems finding reasonably priced stereo amps with that power.
A couple of hundred quid will get me a 40/60 watt stereo amp or an a/v
receiver
with 5x100W - go figure :/
Don't want a surround amp coz they tend not to sound so nice IME, for
just
music.....

> > help!
[....]

> Hope that makes it clearer

damn, you are the MASTER of ascii art :)
Yes, the diagrams did help thanks, and had managed to figure it out in
the end
myself....

cheers,

Tony



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