bryston

[jvvi]

Im about to get a bryston 4B or 3B but i was wondering if its ok to just hook ns10m up to them.

The Ns10m say rated power 25 watts and max at 50 watts and 8 OHMS. Is overpowering bad? I'm new at this so i could use some help.

the Bryston 4B im looking at is 275 watts per channel @ 8 OHMS.

dose this mean i will need some sort of fuse? Or can i just plug and play?

question 2: is it better to over power or under power?

just thought someone could help me

 

[MadAudio]

275 watts seems like quite a lot. Why do you need that much power? Planning on buying some giant Urei's later on?

 

[jvvi]

well i am buying something later on but im not sure yet, but is overpowering worse than under powering?

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

is overpowering worse than under powering?

Is it worse to live in earthquake country or tornado country?

It's not uncommon to overpower a little on the amp side, but it takes setting the gain properly and knowing when to stop on the volume control. A 275 watt amp is awfully beefy to put on the ns10s, it probably wouldn't take much more than a few steps on the volume control before you send those little white woofers sailing across the room training smoke and partially unwound copper wire behind them. It can work if you're verrry careful, but one honest mistake and you'd probably better duck.

G.

 

[Ironklad Audio]

question 2: is it better to over power or under power?

personally, i would much rather overpower a speaker than underpower it. even with a quality amp like a bryston, you're going to be better off having more power than you need and lowering the gain than if you maxed the gain out and had your amp working doubletime to keep up.

i would liken it to the same thing as a car...would you rather have one that you have to floor to get up to highway speed, or one with enough power to easily cruise at 65mph?

 

[Massive Master]

Overpowering is certainly better than under -- That said, a Bryston 2B, 2BLP or 2BSST would be more than enough to power a set of NS10's.

 

[xstatic]

Like mentioned above, overpowering is much better than underpowering. You far less likely to blow a driver by overpowering by 50% than underpowering by 50%. That being said, the 4b is certainly more amp than you need for a pair of NS-10's, but I know plenty of people who use 4B's for them. I would start by putting the ouputs on the 4B straight up instead of wide open. If you think that in the future you will be changing to 100watt or higher speakers, the 4B is probably a good investment. The 3B will still drive them, but the 4B is commonly used on 100 Watt speakers. In either event though, the 3B would be a little closer to what you need for NS-10's than the 4B, and will still handle 100 watt speakers just fine

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Like mentioned above, overpowering is much better than underpowering. You far less likely to blow a driver by overpowering by 50% than underpowering by 50%.

I think we all agree on that.

But he's talking about overpowering by some 500-1000% (depending upon whether you want to go by the RMS or peak figures.) Fine, as long he determines fairly conservative safe levels on the amp and duct tapes the gain controls in place so he can't push SPLs too hard. Otherwise all it takes is one honest mistake...

Then again, that would rid the world of one more pair of ns10s, so maybe that's not such a bad thing... (*ducks* while saying, "just kidding" )

G.

 

[Lt. Bob]

Then again, that would rid the world of one more pair of ns10s, so maybe that's not such a bad thing... (*ducks* while saying, "just kidding" )

G.

man do I agree with that!

As for the power issue ...... overpower and underpowering both have negative possibilities.
truthfully, those of us that have a lot of experience at this aren't gonna damage a speaker with either situation 'cause we know how to tell when a speaker's getting stressed. I'm not gonna turn that underpowered amp up trying in vain to get more volume when all I'm doing is increasing the distortion until it eats a tweeter. By the same token, I'm not gonna turn that Bryston up 'till I 'cause the little NS-10s to explode (well, I would but it'd be deliberately ).
And if you already have the Bryston .... I can see using it ..... and if you're getting something later to run it thru I can see that too.
But, in general, I think anyone new to this is gonna almost surely eat those NS-10's with that much power.

 

[jvvi]

thanks guys, this helps a lot. I never had to think to this problem working at a studio but i have now moved and am building my own. So i'm running into dumb problems like this. and i know i should of known the answer.

ps thanks for holding out on posting ns10m suck for so long, i like them but just for checking,