Low power power amp?

[daystcity]

I recently aquired two Celestion 66 studio monitors! For free!

Each of them at 4 ohms! sweet! but they can only handle 80 watts each. I've already picked out a pre (an excuse for a presonus tube pre) but all the power amps I see are overpowered? I've asked about overpowering before, but now i would like either a power amp that is rated at 160 watts or less, or a device that can limit output ( where you can specifically say, don't go over XXX watts). Thanks much!

 

[GabeN]

It's kind of hard to understand your question. Could you state it a little more clearly?

 

[Bassbasixx]

I saw these and they seem to be low output and may work for you, I would not push those monitors more then they are rated at.
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[daystcity]

Shure, sorry! I'm looking for a power amp that has 80 watts per channel at 4 ohms on each channel. Either that or some sort of limiter that can stop the flow after 80 watts.

 

[daystcity]

thanks for the link! It says on the page that in stereo they are rated at 4 to 16 ohms, would that be per channel, or total?

 

[billfitzmaurice]

I recently aquired two Celestion 66 studio monitors

Is your intent is to use them for electric bass? If so, you can't, they're hi-fi speakers. If not try a hi-fi forum.

 

[Bassbasixx]

I believe stereo not sure, I also found this 75 watts per channel and switchable ohms Go to site and check Crest Audio and take a look at the Pa 150 looks like what you are looking for down to the TLink Removed

 

[daystcity]

To answer your question, I plan on using them for home studio (sort of) monitoring. A bit pricey, but just what I need. ugg. This is annoying, the crown d-75 looks promising though.

 

[Bassbasixx]

Did you look at the Crest Audio Pa-150 ? 75 watts per channel with selectable ohms. Looks like about 200.00 cheaper to!

 

[daystcity]

It's looking pretty good, but there is a crown d-75 on ebay for about 50 bucks after shipping, hmm... 14 hours to decide! .

 

[Passinwind]

There are plenty of used Hafler power amps of moderate power that will work great for studio monitoring.

 

[jokerjkny]

that's what the gain knob is for? *shrug*

 

[bongomania]

No, actually, gain knobs don't limit wattage output, at least not directly. Turn the gain knob down to 9:00 or whatever low setting, feed the amp a nice hot spike of an input signal, and sufficiently driven it can still put out up to its maximum wattage.

 

[Mike Shevlin]

Carvin has a 100w all tube power amp that would work-
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[synaesthesia]

I recently aquired two Celestion 66 studio monitors! For free!

Each of them at 4 ohms! sweet! but they can only handle 80 watts each. I've already picked out a pre (an excuse for a presonus tube pre) but all the power amps I see are overpowered? I've asked about overpowering before, but now i would like either a power amp that is rated at 160 watts or less, or a device that can limit output ( where you can specifically say, don't go over XXX watts). Thanks much!

I don't see what the issue it, there a loads of low wattage power amps on the market. ART, Samson, Amcron (Crown), ...loads available second hand. The Samson servo range in particular has one the Servo 170 - of which you'll find will be relatively inexpensive used, and not expensive new. The D-75 has been around a long time, it's very good, I have had mine for almost 25+ years, it drives my headphones in my studio.

 

[GeoffByrne]

Get onto Ebay & pick up a Crate PowerBlock - rated at 150W mono through 8 Ohms **OR** 70W per side (stereo) through 4 Ohms.

It has CD input, line in FX in/Out and they're cheap.