WARNING: Breaking These Rules Could Destroy Your Amplifier & Speakers!

Solid advice. Now, if we could only get speaker and amp companies to give us data sheets along with marketing hype!

Excellent video man. Your calm demeanour is exactly what I need when thinking about this stuff.

Great forum! Clear, concise and professional. I would subscribe twice if I could.

Good advice , I really appreciate the knowledge you put into these videos. Questions, power Amp, the more turn volume up ,the more power goes to speaker?

You have an excellent teaching capability of relative complex things to audiophiles. Life would be great if everybody spoke the same language.

Dude!!! Thank you for the knowledge!!

I will listen to this video several times, take notes 📝 and follow the instructions.. Additionally I have Subscribed to the Channel and will make ample time to continue with understanding your Audio University Message… I have Dasey chained a few high powered Cerwin Vega Speakers with lower Powered Amplifiers, example 3-4 speakers on one channel and the same on its second line. Now I have a total of 3 Crown Amplifiers that no longer give out any kind of wattage, although they turn out, I don’t even hear crickets 🦗… local audio stores are being honest and saying they will cost more money to fix then they are worth. I now have 100lbs of Amps that I bought brand new and only used in my Garage converted Studio.. I have no choice but to try and fix them on my own… Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. If anyone that reads this message has one or two trouble shooting ideas I will welcome them. Best regards from NYC… Cheers 🥂

Another great video. While I was already aware of most of the content discussed, you delivered it exceptionally well - clearly and concisely. Subscribed!

I have a pair of B&W 804 3D3. They recommend a 50-200 watt amp and they mention nothing of continuous power. I used an Anthem STR 200 watt integrated amp and it sounded great. I switched to separates: Anthem STR preamp + 400 watt power amp. The difference is phenomenal. Definitely got extra headroom for the speakers and the dynamics are wayyyyy improved. At first I thought it was overkill but such is not the case. B&Ws are power pigs. The more watts you throw into them the happier they are, so long as you don’t crank it up to the level that they can’t handle.

True..!! Great video

Thank you! I subscribed and I am watching your show from Central Texas

perfect advice

good advise

Great video 👍

Can you give similar advice with active speakers?

I'm finally building my home theater. I'm buying three used gfa-555s to start. I'm gonna bridge them to my front three speakers. It's nice to know I wasn't out of my mind.

excellent video i’m using a 800w amp mixer my Speakers recommended an amplifier that is 400w to 750w so if I want to go louder I should get a 750w amp so I’m not pushing too much gain and volume to achieve that wattage? i’m using Martin audio f10 speakers it says 250w AES, 1000W Peak i’m not sure what AES means

All sound information can I add the continuous power specification AES2-1984 is only for two hours!

Is it ok to connect 140W 4 Ohms speakers to Center & Surround channels of a home theater amplifier rated at 500W per channel? Thanks in advance.

Hello.Would It possible to explain signal to noise ratio ? what i am trying to understand is for example if a speakers sensitivity is 90db at 1 watt and lets say i have 2 amplifiers A and B. Lets say amplifier A is has a signal to noise ratio of 60db at 1watt and amplifier B has a signal to noise ratio of 85db at 1watt given that both amplifiers produce the same 1watt why is it that amplifier B louder or would it be?