How many watts do you feed your Klipsches?

Any of those Mac amps is a good choice for the Chorus. A friend of mine is powering Cornwall IV’s with a 450 watt McIntosh MC452 and loves it.
 
sberger said:
Everyone knows one of the good things about our speakers is their efficiency, and their ability to sound great with just a few watts. But I know they also sound good with more powerful amps, particularly if those watts are tubes. I have had luck with 14 to 50 watts. Currently making some real good music with Heathkit W-7's matched with my Cornwalls. 40-50 watts seem to be the sweet spot for my situation. How about you?
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The power for my Belle Klipsch's is a Fisher 500-C. Probably using single digit wattage.
My Klipsch RP600M II's I'm currently using adcom GFA-535. Again, small room only needing a few watts.
I'm putting together a system now which will be Heresy 1 with another Fisher 500-c for power.
 
Gainstaging comes into play. You do not want normal listening level to be highly attenuated. That is an issue with efficient speakers. The sweet spot on volume pots is around 9 - 12 o’clock.
Maybe Mac, HK, and Accuphase resistive pots track better than most. But most log stereo pots do not track well at the extremes. All are not true log pots, they are “fake” log. Two linear tracks in series to mimic logarithmic response.
Channel matching is crucial to me.
 
How many watts do I feed my Klipsch...
Yamaha M-2, 240watts per channel for the 1968 Klipschorns.
Overkill you say? Oh yeah - ABSO...f'n...LUTELY!!!!

Peak Output Meter rarely (if ever) touches the 0.2 wpc marker.
Not the case with the AR9 and 90s...
It's the amp I've been using for the last 40+ years - why change?
 
I use a Blaire Chapman custom built 7 WPC 807 power tube Single End Triode amp with point to point design with Cathode auto bias. Our one owner 79 Cornwalls with a ALK Engineering Universal Adjustable networks with 80 LaScalla K-77-M tweeters. I've tried several different push/pull tube amps I liked too. My favorite SS amp was Nelson Pass design GFA 555 200X2 WPC. What surprised about the 7 WPC SET was the spacious and accurate soundstage or holographic phantom center channel with accurate bass at low volume. Very few SS amps, receives I've owned in the last 40 odd years produce solid accurate bass at low volume 75/80 dB. I'm sure there are exceptions, just posting what I've experienced.
 
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