What power amp do you use to power your monitor?

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I will soon be buying some monitors (probably the Alesis Monitor One MK2 Studio Monitors) because I heard they were great.
They are great but they are passive (just what I want) and I would like to know what kind of power amp should I use with these (please suggest brands and names) I was looking ak Crowns XRS (dunno if its really XRS the name :P) or the Alesis RA300.
please suggest more amps, give me more info etc (I am 15... lol)
I would also like to know if its better to have a preamp.

I also have a few old power/pre amps from the 80's I guess (they have a kind of dooden color cover lol) would that be good for powering monitors?
My father has a pre/power amp made by CARVER which he uses to power some B&W speakers... but he won't let me use that :P

thx a lot and sorry for the long message hehe (and for all spelling mistakes... I am french lol)

Always take in consideration in your suggestions that I am on a tight budget (I would say 300$ to 400$ really is the MAX MAX MAX I would go on the power amp)

see ya guys
 
I have the original Alesis M1 and I use the Alesis RA 100. It's a decent sounding setup. The Alesis RA 300 (at 150 watts a channel) will give those buggers more than enough juice to make monitoring smooth and detailed across the volume range.

Go for it.
 
tenkas said:
I will soon be buying some monitors (probably the Alesis Monitor One MK2 Studio Monitors) because I heard they were great.
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Funny, I've never heard that said about ANY Alesis monitor....
 
I'm using a Hafler 1100 to power my YSM1i's. I picked it up from GC as a floor demo for $80.

Glenn D.
 
Do these power amps you guys are using have volume knobs?

If not, what do you use as a volume knob?
 
I have a couple of Hafler Pro 1200s.
Another good bet is the old Crown DC series poweramps.
 
tenkas said:
I will soon be buying some monitors (probably the Alesis Monitor One MK2 Studio Monitors) because I heard they were great.
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Who'd you hear that from? I think you'd be better off with a pair of the passive Yorkvilles and some flavour of Hafler amp. Sometimes you can find some pretty good used "audiophile" power amps for relatively cheap too.
 
ambi said:
Do these power amps you guys are using have volume knobs?

If not, what do you use as a volume knob?
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mine doesn't. i use the my soundcard control panel and cubase master outputs.
 
Id definitely think about the Yorkville YSM-1's or Tannoy protoJ's......
 
ok really thx guys! I will be looking at the Yorkvills passive!
I live in Canada so why not support my own country's work!
thx guys you're great (compared to some guys on www.harmony-central.com) lolll
 
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