If 100wpc is your benchmark, I think there are probably more speakers than not that can be adequately driven by that level of power. Certainly, some speakers like more power to sound their best (depending on room size, etc.), but 100wpc will drive most speakers. The really tough speaker matching occurs at 50wpc and down, IMO. Nonetheless, in addition to the excellent choices already mentioned, I would throw in Merlin and WLM (distributed by Red Wine) as relatively efficient speaker lines to look at.
Quality speakers that don't need tons of power
I thought I'd start a thread with suggestions for good, quality speakers (let's just say MSRP over 8K or so) that don't need monoblocks or separates with huge power reserves. A lot of speakers on that range (KEF, B&W, Dynaudio, Revel...) need that to shine...a lot of the same speakers consequently suffer at lower levels and need to be turned up to a certain level before they open up.
Let me just start my first recommendation, Von Schweikert unifield model 3, which were easily driven by my 100 wpc Marantz integrated...great speaker to boot, world class treble.
Let me just start my first recommendation, Von Schweikert unifield model 3, which were easily driven by my 100 wpc Marantz integrated...great speaker to boot, world class treble.
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