Quick question..

[bafke]

I just moved in a new house with some friends and we were thinking about giving a party to celebrate it.

I happen to have a few dj friends and I was thinking of letting them play some music.

Question is, do I allow them to use my B&w 602.5 paired with my yamaha sub?

My amp is rated at 100 watts rms(yamaha dsp A 2070), the speakers at 105 RMS I think.
If I could crank it up just a tad above half what my amp could give, the speakers would play loud enough to fill the room.

Could this affect my speakers in any way?I tend to play my music kinda loud..but like this??..all night??..let's say 8 hours non stop..
Those speakers really don't seem to go that loud,or is that just in my head?

Please reassure me

Bafke

[slackerbob]

you should be fine. i think. i don't know about driving your amp into clipping for 8 hours. that might not be good.
i don't really know enough to give you a definite answer. but as long as your speakers are rated at or above your amp, i don't think anything catastrophic should happen.

[navin]

i would be careful. it is not that the amp or speaker will give but in a party what usually happens is that someone cranks the bass control up to 10 or drop something on the speaker or amp. I have been the victim of a damaged amp and/or speakers more than once.

today me and my friends are over 40 so we dont party that hard so i would be ok but if you are entertaing a bunch of 18-25 year olds i'd be careful.

alcohol dulls the senses. what sounds loud sober sound moderate after a few. also with 20 people over the speakers have to work harder to maintain the same SPLs.


if oyu amp - speaker combo can run 8 hours at max then by all means.

[bafke]

Well I'm more worried about the speakers then the amp,maybe I'm wrong here.

I'll just have to see..set some limits first
It'll all depend on how freaky those speakers start to move, cause I don't really thrust that ****

Tnx anyway,
Bafke

[roddyama]

If you drive your amp into clipping for any length of time, the first thing to go will be your tweeters. The clipped signal produced by the amp is rich in high frequency at full amp power. There aren't many conventional tweeters that will take that abuse for long.

[Hybrid fourdoor]

If you can eliminate much of the bass from the main speakers...(use the external powered sub). Then you can probably go trouble free with the mains. When I got married we used our own gear for the audio. I used my Magnepans and a H/K PA5800 amp, in a fairly large dining hall (like 25' ceilings). Anways that amp only had about 80 watts, and it ran constant for 2.5 hours, and it ran fine (and were talking like ~84dB sensitivity speakers here )

But anyways, the bass generates most of the power. Chances are if you could eliminate everything <120 Hz from the mains, you would only need like 30-50 Watts tops in a house type room.