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And everyone thought I was crazy listening to various music with 110dB dynamic peaks from 13ft away in my 8,000 cu ft room causing my Emotiva MPS-1 to keep shutting down, just should not happen when driving 80's. Anyway, my Odyssey monoblocks just keep going and going and going, wait, that is a battery commercial.
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Re: Anyone heard or own a Anthem MCA 20?
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The higher the SPL, the greater the hearing damage, resulting in a need for a more powerful amp and larger speakers, resulting in more SPL and more hearing damage...well, I think you all get the drift.
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yes, but no distortion or clipping at higher levels is far less hard on your hearing than the opposite. I have found that I can listen to music at higher levels for hours now with no fatigue, where before good seperates this was not true.
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Randy, very true but you are nevertheless a candidate for this. Just turn it down to a half watt and you'll be fine  .
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Randy, actually no, that isn't true at all, and can be a dangerous misconception. Hearing damage is caused by the dB level and isn't any less harmful if it happens to be with low distortion. Whatever "fatigue" is(I've never experienced it)it involves a separate question from hearing damage.
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yes, but no distortion or clipping at higher levels is far less hard on your hearing than the opposite. I have found that I can listen to music at higher levels for hours now with no fatigue, where before good seperates this was not true.
Ok, but remember that I was testing those levels ONCE, shortly after I got the amps. Listening for hours....nope.
90db to 100db for a while maybe...
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I can't help you with the Anthem/M80's compatiblity. I know Chesseroo has m60's, but the m80's are a different animal. Most likely you will be fine.
And indeed you will.
Anthem makes excellent amps and the MCA line is spec'ed for 4 ohm speakers.
http://www.anthemav.com/newsitev2.0/AnthemProduct/MCASeries/MCASpecs/MCASeriesSpecs.html
However, keep in mind that the louder the speakers go, the more power required to keep them out of distortion ranges. KNOW THE LIMIT OF YOUR AMP AND SPEAKER COMBO.
Once you know that limit, never exceed it.
If you want to exceed it, you have to pony up more cash for much larger or more expensive amps. Even the new Axiom amps coming out that tout tons of power will be far more expensive than the Anthem MCA20 which can be found used for $400-600.
You can see my thoughts on choosing between a Parasound Halo and the Anthem MCA amps in this personal review.
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To be fair to Parasound, I suspect that those issues have been worked out; I did not hear a hum on either of the sets of Parasound Halos that I have heard (Dennis's or Sunil's).
And they're pretty...
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Did they have the A23 though or the larger units?
I figured it was noise coming from within the small A23 enclosure. The Halo line actually had similar noise issues with one of their other components which was actually mentioned by Paul over at the Hometheatrespot when he first reviewed the new Halos.
Parasound commented on applying a fix for the noise by adding some internal reflective material but again, this was not for their A23 amp.
I really like the Halo amp and may buy one used at some point so i can do components tests more easily with their line adjustable gains on the rear, something i haven't seen in any other amp yet.
It was truly feature packed for a good price.
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