Posted by Scholl on March 31, 2003 at 09:41:53

In Reply to: How many of you have tried "Low powered" Marantz receivers with your Pi speakers??? posted by spkrman57 on March 27, 2003 at 18:15:01:

I've had tons of amps on my 2226Hs. Push pull 6550s with moderate global NFB are my favorite.

I think the problem is that some 4" voice coils need a bit more juice to articulate and tighten up. These types of speakres are designed to sound good with 250-500 watt amps. 2-3 watters do surprisingly well but not the best.

See if you can have a friend bring over such an amp, maybe a modded Ella. You might find yourself selling off some junk to get one.

I've found a great test. I call it the Bonn Scott vocal test. Pickup a reissue (digipak) AC/DC, High Voltage or Dirty Deeds and give it a spin. It's surprisingly difficult to reproduce the vocals on top of the simple rock n roll kind of like a square wave on top of a square wave, huge bandwidth and dynamics. If the combination works, Scott's vocals are surprisingly articulate with finnesse. If not it sounds like a screaming anoying mess.