AMP to go along with monitors???

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just read in a magazine aboyut some guys setup.He has these monitor and amp
Event 20/20 150 Watt Speakers
Alesis RA-100

He says he has the AMP for these reasons:it gets the job done. The wattage is slightly higher than my speakers, and thats very important, it helps to give that extra headroom and punch.

Is this true?
 
yes, this will make a good match, but that doesnt mean its a good amp...........................or is it. I really dont know, Ive never used one. If your thinking about buying one, look at hafler amps. Very sweet
 
Both the RA-100 and Hafler amps are decent. As a general rule of thumb, you almost always want an amp that can supply more power than your speaker ratings. Under-powered amps will usually output square wave distortion when pushed to the limit (Unless some sort of overload protection, compression, or limiting is built into the amp itself), and this is detrimental to the health of your speakers. Having the extra headroom, will prevent this from happening, resulting in more clean volume too (Volume will be louder than the under-powered amp could ever produce but, less likely to damage anything).
 
None of this will necassarily be an issue for you, if you don't ever really crank it up.
 
I use the Alesis RA-300 (the big brother to the RA100) and love the crap out of it. Plenty of clean power. I have it matched to Alesis Monitor One mkIIs. I think its a great set-up for the price.
 
Stick to Hafler, Bryston, QSC for amps.... and yes, I'll echo what Atterion already mentioned. You do want to use an amp with plenty of power - DON'T match the amp to the speaker by using the speaker's rated input.

You WANT to be powering a speaker rated for 25 watts RMS (NS-10s as an example) with an amp capable of providing 200-400 watts of power.
 
Yeah QSC's rock too. Never used Bryston, but I trust Blue Bear, if he says that something is good, it's usually pretty damn good.
 
The principle is right. Go with a Hafler. Far better amp than the Alesis (whcih isn't a bad amp for the price I guess). If you only want to buy one amplifier that will sound good on most any speakers and don't ever want to have to rebuy, get a Bryston. They are spendy, but they sound great and have an amazing 20 year transferable warranty.

As a point of reference, overpowering has advantages at even the lowest of volumes. The size of the amp really should not be based on how loud you want to listen, but more on what the speakers you want to use are capable of.
 
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