Coda II
getting there slowly
Is it one of those laws of physics things that high efficiency speakers have to be big?
That they need to be horns or have large drivers and/or big cabinets or use room placement for reinforcement? Or are there eg. near field designs that aren’t trying to fill a room with sound that are unlikely to create issues with low power amplifiers?
It regularly comes up on here that most of the time, in a domestic situation, we are only using a few watts anyway and then there is the parallel strand of eg. AS always saying that although Harbeths are not particularly efficient they are an easy load.
So, are there successful pairings of bookshelf speakers with sub 10 watt amplifiers?
That they need to be horns or have large drivers and/or big cabinets or use room placement for reinforcement? Or are there eg. near field designs that aren’t trying to fill a room with sound that are unlikely to create issues with low power amplifiers?
It regularly comes up on here that most of the time, in a domestic situation, we are only using a few watts anyway and then there is the parallel strand of eg. AS always saying that although Harbeths are not particularly efficient they are an easy load.
So, are there successful pairings of bookshelf speakers with sub 10 watt amplifiers?