Just Looking for a Bit of Advice

[dariusmcgann]

Hi,

Hoping somebody could answer this for me. I'm advising my aunt on putting together a system. She's not willing to spend a lot but she has a nice pair of JPW speakers already. I've seen an integrated amp and tuner the might do the job. The speakers are rated to 6 ohms and 85 watts and apparently the amp drives 100 watts into 8 ohms. I know the basics of resistance but I just wanna run it buy some experts. Am I gonna burn out the amp? By the way it's the Sony SDRH100 and hasn't been released yet.

Cheers.

[Kevio]

The short answer is, "It will be fine."

The long answer is quite a bit longer and passes through Ohm's law and a bit of history of amplifiers and their specifications and impedance vs. frequency curves for speakers condensed to a single number but, not to worry, it leads to the same conclusion.

[dariusmcgann]

Thanks.