NS10s 50w??

[santarsieri]

I purchased a set onf NS10s from ebay and they came from Japan and are rated 25w (max power 50w) at 8 ohms. I also purchased a samson servo 170 as I know they power NS10s fine.

However, seeing as the rating is different for this set, will the amp still power the ns10s correctly?

Have I bought a cheap set of ns10s?

please help

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

There's no such thing as a "good" pair of NS10s, so don't worry about it!

In answer to your question, though - your amp will power them just fine.... getting them to sound even close to reasonable is an entirely different story altogether!

 

[Massive Master]

Too much power = Headroom.

Headroom = Good room.

 

[santarsieri]

so will they work fine then? what about distortion or damage to the speakers? will it not cause more damage than normal?

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Ideally, you want a high-power amp to drive your control monitors.... the Samson isn't really a high-power unit - it will work, but you don't want to push it too hard (with high volume levels).....

 

[santarsieri]

so how do ohms measure up then. I know that about 2x the wattage should be ok for monitoring, but the fact of the matter is the monitors are 50w max at 8 ohms and the amp is 85w at 4 ohms. I really have no idea how ohms are measured or how to compare them, so could someone give me an idea please. Would it make it just over 3x headroom ? or am i totally on the wrong path here?

thank you for the great help !

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Wattage specs on a speaker don't really matter too much.... you're going to damage speakers much mroe quickly by using an underpowered amp than you would by using a 500 watt amp on NS10s.... (the reason is it's quite likely that you'll drive an underpowered amp into clipping quite easily - and clipped signal can really fuck up speakers!)

The load (impedance) is important only from the point of view that an amp's current draw depends on the load across its speaker outputs, so if you use 4ohm speakers with an amp rated only down to 8ohms, then you risk damaging the amp due to excessive current draw. High-end amps are often rated down to 2ohm loads, so there's never an issue.

If I recall, NS10s are 8ohm, so again, shouldn't be an issue.