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Receiver for new speakers
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Hi All.

I ordered the epic 60 500 from factory outlet thus i'm in my second week of the expected delivery of 5 weeks. During this time I will be looking to buy a receiver. I'm leaning towards the Denon AVR 2809CI or Onkyo TX-SR806. So i'm wondering if any of these receiver will be more than enough to drive my speakers. I live just outside of Toronto so does anyone know of a dealer that has a decent price on one of these units?

Thanks.

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Either of those would be excellent choices.


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Psionic #228910 11/08/08 02:18 AM
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 Originally Posted By: Psionic
Hi All.

I ordered the epic 60 500 from factory outlet thus i'm in my second week of the expected delivery of 5 weeks. During this time I will be looking to buy a receiver. I'm leaning towards the Denon AVR 2809CI or Onkyo TX-SR806. So i'm wondering if any of these receiver will be more than enough to drive my speakers. I live just outside of Toronto so does anyone know of a dealer that has a decent price on one of these units?

Thanks.

unless you are one of the iron ear drum fan club boys, these receivers are more than adequate to drive the M-60s


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chesseroo #228918 11/08/08 02:32 AM
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The 60's are 8 ohm load and any receiver can handle that.

That's if I heard the question correctly... I'm a bit deaf.

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Psionic #228937 11/08/08 03:48 AM
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Psi, just to say welcome and join the others in commenting that either of those units should have more than enough maximum power capacity for your M60s. Keep in mind that for an average comfortably loud level around 80dB the M60s will use a bit less than 1 watt. Low levels may use about a thousandth of a watt and brief peaks on some material having wide dynamic range(e.g., some recordings of some classical compositions)may have brief requirements as much as 20dB higher and could require as much as 100 watts, but that's still no problem.


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JohnK #228940 11/08/08 03:55 AM
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With all the recent talk of Mojo I will translate, "...a bit less than 1 watt", to be the magical 1/2 watt! \:\)


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jakewash #228950 11/08/08 04:19 AM
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Thank you all. Hopefully the speakers arrive quicker than the quoted 5 weeks.

This is the first time buying speakers and I can consider myself a newbie to these things. The only thing I know is how to wire these puppies up.

I'll be mainly used these for movies, music and Karaoke for my wife.

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I hope you enjoy them as much as our family enjoys our setup.


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Hey Psionic, I'm just down the road from you in Kitchener.

I was all worried about having enough power for my M80s leading up to the purchase. I am now finding that a 100w receiver is plenty of power for me in my 20x11x8 room. I can push these speakers up to uncomfortable levels without any noticable clipping/distortion. At one point I found an online calculator and figured I was using around 60w to get up to 90-95db, louder than I usually listen.

Spend the next 5 weeks figuring out what features you need in your receiver. Thats probably much more important than worrying about power.


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fredk #228997 11/08/08 12:56 PM
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Welcome Psi. For being a newbie, you've made a remarkably good choice for your audio setup. ;\) Before long you'll be considered the resident home audio expert to whom all of your friends come for advice on how to make their system sound as good as yours.

Welcome to the forums and congrats on your purchase.

Jason


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