Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
However, I'm a bit concerned about the power rating. This Teac is rated at 26 watts at 4 ohms, while my AR-215PS speakers recommend 20-100 watts at 8 ohms. (https://www.crutchfield.com/S-BqZCi97dOA3/p_058AR215B/Acoustic-Research-AR-215PS.html) Will this be an issue? As I understand it, this isn't particularly harmful, but the sound level will be lower, and raising the volume to compensate will result in diminished quality. Is that correct?
Now to the question of sound quality when pushing the volume up close to the amp's full capacity; I think because these are "class D" type amps, there isn't any degradation of the sound quality as it approaches its limits. I may be wrong, but from what I have heard, this type of amp is just as clear and distortion-free at its peak capacity as it is at low power. So I think concerns about diminishing sound quality that does occur in tube and traditional transistor amplifiers do not apply to this type of design. I don't know everything about class D amps, so someone who thinks I'm wrong about that should feel free to correct me on that point.
I think this looks like a really sweet system and I'll envy you if you get it. I think it would be an excellent match for your reasonably efficient speakers.