I recently purchased a quad 306 amplifier and a quad 34 preamplifier. The apmlifier is good for 40-50 Watts in 8 ohm speakers. Can anybody give me some help in finding some suitable speakers for this setup?
The 34 is a bottleneck. I use a Little bear passive (£25 Ebay) and it sounds great to me.
As for speakers - What is your room size / listening distance? How close will they be to the back wall?
What's the maximum size speakers you'd be happy with?
If you listen nearfield you will probably be better off with small speakers.
I'd look at Troels Gravesen, Humblehomemadehifi (I like the look of the Plutone), Jeff Bagby and Paul Carmody
As for speakers - What is your room size / listening distance? How close will they be to the back wall?
What's the maximum size speakers you'd be happy with?
If you listen nearfield you will probably be better off with small speakers.
I'd look at Troels Gravesen, Humblehomemadehifi (I like the look of the Plutone), Jeff Bagby and Paul Carmody
What do you mean by 'the 34 is a bottleneck'?
The size of the room is 5 m x 3,8 m en 2,40 m heigh. Three walls are masonry, 1 is concrete. The loudspeakers would be placed 0,50 meter from te wall. So I don't think I would need large speakers for such a small listening room.
My music is hard rock as well as regular pop music. And the room is 5 m x 3,8 m x 2,4 m (height). Three walls masonry and one wall concrete.
Have a look at the Carmody Tarkus, you may be a little light on power but it should still go loud. If necessary you can alway keep a look out for another 306 and biamp each speaker.
Tarkus - undefinition
These are quotes at 106dB at 75w (assume at 1m) before Xmax comes into play so with your 50w it will be loud enough for pretty much all domestic uses. These are also renown for being good with rock.
If you want smaller the the Statement monitor may be ok, it has a far and near wall crossover (or add a switch for both).
Statements_Monitor
P.S. The 306 is a very nice, low distortion amp and one of the best Quad made, along with the 606, 707 and 909 which all share a similar design. There are several threads on here detailing how it can be improved if you want to get the soldering iron out.
Tarkus - undefinition
These are quotes at 106dB at 75w (assume at 1m) before Xmax comes into play so with your 50w it will be loud enough for pretty much all domestic uses. These are also renown for being good with rock.
If you want smaller the the Statement monitor may be ok, it has a far and near wall crossover (or add a switch for both).
Statements_Monitor
P.S. The 306 is a very nice, low distortion amp and one of the best Quad made, along with the 606, 707 and 909 which all share a similar design. There are several threads on here detailing how it can be improved if you want to get the soldering iron out.
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I think what fatmarley means is that the 34 preamp limits the performance of the 306 amp, and may usefully be replaced by a simpler or more modern preamplifier design.
Another vote for the Tarkus. Never heard them but he's a well respected designer and people seem to like them. Should be prefect for rock.
Could you give some more information on how to biamp the speakers with two 306? (Sorry, newbie question).
To biamp you split the preamp output using either an rca splitter plug or a single to double rca cable (unless your preamp has two outputs). These go to the two poweramps separately so they are getting the same full range signal. Then one amp powers the bass side of the crossover and driver and the other amp drives the mid/tweeter side. In the tarkus you will see the top and bottom cabs are joined by a jumper wire, this wire would be removed with one amp powering the lower and one the higher cab.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
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