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efficiency- hope i spelt that wright.

after my last thread, I started thinking about speaker efficiency, my speakers are rated at 87 db's which i think are pretty inefficent,so I am thinking I need a bigger amp to drive them, is this true? now lets say i enjoyed klipsch (which I do not) they are very efficient so would a low wattage amp perform better for this speaker vs. a high waggage amp? Is a guy wasting his money buying inefficient speakers? my thought are the lower the wattage the cheaper the amp so if you could match them up with really efficient speakers you could have a gem, any thoughts on this question are something i will truly enjoy reading. thanks

mike
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Some of the issues regarding amplifier vs speaker selection are discussed here:

http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html

My own feeling is that if the efficiency of the speaker does not interfere with the revealing nature of the speaker, does not interfere with bandwidth, then the efficiency is valuable! My own speakers are 97db 1 watt/1 meter, compared to a speaker of 87 db, the result is that I can run an amplifier of 1/10th the power and get the same sound pressure. Fortunately, one thing high efficiency speakers do really well is dynamics- no worries there.
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