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I keep reading about all these posts talking of power and room volume.
Distance is a key variable that is being left out.

Mojo, you say such a power output is loud for your system, but at what listening distance?
8 feet?
16 feet?
24 feet?

I see no reason to doubt that anyone with a common living room of 8 foot ceilings, maybe 12 feet wide and 18 feet long (under 2000 cubic feet) would be needing something larger than a typical receiver to hit 100+ dB at the 18 foot mark pushing 4 ohm speakers compared to a listening distance of 10 feet.

I have an Anthem amp (225w /ch) driving Tannoys (93 db/W/m) and at 18 feet, it starts to clip around the 100-104 dB point. Driving them with a Coda amp at 300w/ch, Class A into the first 20W provided levels of 106-108 peak but it was so loud i never pushed it to clipping.
At 15 feet my Onkyo 797 starts to distort around the 94dB mark with these Tannoys.

Don't underestimate the power and reserve capacity of bigger amps.



My friend's room must be more than 8000+ sqft and thats probably not including the kitchen and dining room which make up the whole great room. Vaulted ceiling but only from 8ft to 11 or 12 ft. Viewing distance from the tv is probably 12-16 ft depending on where you sit in the room. Although he never watches movies at that volume. It's music that gets cranked up.

I keep telling him he's just crazy, but exploring the options he requested.

Shag