Aviatrix Power Handling

[mike12820]

Finally finished up my Aviatrix and tested them out last night for the first time. They sound great to me so far, very impressed with limited playback time I had before it was bed time for the little one.

I have them currently hooked up to my Carver A500x. This amp has decent power w/ 250W/ch @8ohms and 400W @4ohms continuous. I've got the little meters on the front of the amp, who really knows how accurate they are... Anyway, the needle is bouncing around between 60-100W x ~1.3 for a 6ohm load I may be pushing 80W-130W at the peaks.

Will I hear distortion before one of the speakers blows or do I need to be real careful turning these up?

The speakers I have been running get way too loud to even want to turn up to point of destruction, Cerwin Vega MX400's. 400W rms, 4 ohm, and 105 dB sensitivity. I have a AV-705x that will eventually be the home theater amp, probably better suited at 125W rms/ch @8ohms.

[jcpahman77]

I have the TriTrix TLs (the AviaTrix's little brother), my AVR claims ~100-120 watts when run in stereo mode and I've run them full range with a wide range of music, not only have I never heard them distort (except once on a movie), they get loud enough that I doubt I'll ever find their limits. Again, movie playback pushes their lower end, but they weren't designed to reproduce that kind of low end in the first place. If you're crossing them to a sub at ~60-80Hz they'll likely go loud enough before distortion that you won't need to worry about it. Even when I did push them too hard during movie playback there didn't seem to be any lasting adverse effects. They distorted and kept playing cleanly afterwards, at which point I crossed them at 60Hz to be safe.

[Chris Roemer]

Finally finished up my Aviatrix and tested them out last night for the first time. They sound great to me so far, very impressed with limited playback time I had before it was bed time for the little one.

I have them currently hooked up to my Carver A500x. This amp has decent power w/ 250W/ch @8ohms and 400W @4ohms continuous. I've got the little meters on the front of the amp, who really knows how accurate they are... Anyway, the needle is bouncing around between 60-100W x ~1.3 for a 6ohm load I may be pushing 80W-130W at the peaks.

Will I hear distortion before one of the speakers blows or do I need to be real careful turning these up?

The speakers I have been running get way too loud to even want to turn up to point of destruction, Cerwin Vega MX400's. 400W rms, 4 ohm, and 105 dB sensitivity. I have a AV-705x that will eventually be the home theater amp, probably better suited at 125W rms/ch @8ohms.

My "ntns" use a pair of the ND140's little bro's (the ND105-4). Although they both have an Xmax spec of 4mm, they have a mechanical limit of +/-10mm.
I'd say unless you're seeing 3/4" of throw (and they still sound OK), turn it up a notch.

Chris

[mike12820]

Turned them up a couple more notches today and they still sound good, great in fact. Still shocked at what these little beasts can do. I guess the real alarming part is turning my volume knob up past my previous 'point of no return' mark on the pre-amp from back in the college days when drunk roommates or party goers would attempt to crank it 100% over. With my old speakers being 4 ohm vs. 6 ohm and w/ much higher sensitivity at 105, I shouldn't expect to have the dial falling in the same range for a given volume level.

Regards,
Mike