Eddie Purchased Speakers - Now WATT???

Greetings All!

It gives me great pleasure to announce the purchase of the Speaker portion of my Home Theater setup and in the process obliterating any semblance of a budget. My wife just told me to "Go for it!" and I did.

I purchased the following:

(2) Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor Standing Loudspeakers
(1) Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr. Center Channel Speaker
(2) Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr. Surround Speakers
(2) 8' Lengths of Acoustic Zen Hologram Speaker Wire for Mains
(1) 4' Length of Acoustic Zen Satori Speaker Wire for Center Channel
(2) Custom made stands for Rear Surrounds
(2) 45' Lengths of Acoustic Zen Shiloh III Speaker Wire for Rear Surrounds

The Adagios & Adagio Jrs. are rated at 89 dB / 6 Ohms.

How much power / amplification do I need to run these optimally?

Thanks,

Eddie

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Originally Posted by TwinDad

Greetings All!

It gives me great pleasure to announce the purchase of the Speaker portion of my Home Theater setup and in the process obliterating any semblance of a budget. My wife just told me to "Go for it!" and I did.

I purchased the following:

(2) Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor Standing Loudspeakers
(1) Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr. Center Channel Speaker
(2) Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr. Surround Speakers
(2) 8' Lengths of Acoustic Zen Hologram Speaker Wire for Mains
(1) 4' Length of Acoustic Zen Satori Speaker Wire for Center Channel
(2) Custom made stands for Rear Surrounds
(2) 45' Lengths of Acoustic Zen Shiloh III Speaker Wire for Rear Surrounds

The Adagios & Adagio Jrs. are rated at 89 dB / 6 Ohms.

How much power / amplification do I need to run these optimally?

Thanks,

Eddie

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Wow! You got yourself some nice speakes there fella. How did you come to make this choice of a speaker and not know that you will have to get high end amps to drive them? Did some one tell you to get them?

They are 6 ohms at 89dBs If she said go for it, then do just that. Go get self a nice amp...something like this

http://www.musicdirect.com/product/80828


And while you are at it, get this

http://www.musicdirect.com/product/80645

Or you could wait till the end of April to get this new amp and pre/pro from Marantz.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands...p-pair/570992/






frenchmon

I canceled order. Cables WAY TOO EXPENSIVE!!!

One crucial factor - I have twin 7 year old boys that are extremely active. Always rough-housing, play fighting, real fighting. Stand mounted speakers are out of the question at this point. They would crash into them - repeatedly. Trust me on this.

I need 4 floorstanders and a CC all from the same company that excel at music first and HT second. Further, SVS PB ULTRA 13 SUBWOOFER is too big. My wife said it is the size of an end table in Living Room. Need a smaller musical sub that does well with HT too.

Thanks,

Eddie

P.S. Auditioned B&W - did not care for them.

But we all have our constraints.

I don't know how the Acoustic Zens run, but I suspect four Paradigm Studio 60's would be less. Perhaps combine these with a matching CC-590 center and Servo-15 sub, or maybe just a Seismic 12.

I'll second the Paradigms. Did you get a chance to audition the Vienna Acoustics previously discussed?

I can tell you right now the wife won't go for the Servo-15. I have one and it's a beast--in both appearance and performance. Maybe REL.

Gotta keep sub small to medium sized. Auditioning officially commences week of April 9th.

Eddie

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Originally Posted by TwinDad

Gotta keep sub small to medium sized. Auditioning officially commences week of April 9th.

Eddie

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check out REL...

their 'R' series goes from small to reasonably medium sized :)

and they're exellent subs...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.