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You could run JBL 100's off a little 1 watt amp. It just depends on how loud you want them.
yes 100 WPC is enough to cause you hearing loss. Is that your goal?
The thing is, get good speakers. Get an amp suitable for the size of the room and volume needed. You absolutely positively do not need to try to pair some amp that wrings the last wattage possible out of the speakers.
On the other hand, you don't want to ruin them by running an underpowered amp heavily into its distortion range.
Assuming the amp works correctly, hook it up and see if it has suitable volume for your needs before distorting.
Recommendation for just an amp is even more of a wildcard depending on your needs, budget, etc.
yes 100 WPC is enough to cause you hearing loss. Is that your goal?
The thing is, get good speakers. Get an amp suitable for the size of the room and volume needed. You absolutely positively do not need to try to pair some amp that wrings the last wattage possible out of the speakers.
On the other hand, you don't want to ruin them by running an underpowered amp heavily into its distortion range.
Assuming the amp works correctly, hook it up and see if it has suitable volume for your needs before distorting.
Recommendation for just an amp is even more of a wildcard depending on your needs, budget, etc.
You could run JBL 100's off a little 1 watt amp. It just depends on how loud you want them.
yes 100 WPC is enough to cause you hearing loss. Is that your goal?
The thing is, get good speakers. Get an amp suitable for the size of the room and volume needed. You absolutely positively do not need to try to pair some amp that wrings the last wattage possible out of the speakers.
On the other hand, you don't want to ruin them by running an underpowered amp heavily into its distortion range.
Assuming the amp works correctly, hook it up and see if it has suitable volume for your needs before distorting.
Recommendation for just an amp is even more of a wildcard depending on your needs, budget, etc.
Dave9- LOL, not trying to cause hearing loss. If I had any hearing loss, it would of showed up a long time ago from sitting right by the speakers in a bar. Just want to know if this amp was sufficient enough to drive them to sound good. I bought the JBL’s in 1974 for $200 a piece. As far as my budget for just an amp, I could pay up to $500 for one.
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Old speakers were designed to be driven from the fairly high output impedance of a vacuum tubes amplifier. The damping was poor and allowed a cheap speaker to sound boomy or a good speaker designed for it to have a loose flat low frequency response. But a modern solid state amplifier has an extremely low output impedance for good damping of resonances in modern speakers that causes an old speaker to have damping that is too tight and poor low frequency response.
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Audioguru- Great explanation but can you put it in layman's terms? LOL I'm not an electronic wizard. Bottom line: All I want to know is a VSX Pioneer 3600 amp/radio a good match for the old 70's, JBL Century 100's, foam grills, wood encased speakers? If not, what would be? I have an old Sansui receiver as well. Can't remember the model number as it's being stored. Think it was 80 WPC.
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I question your timetable, there were plenty of transistorized amps by the time those came out.
yes ... by 74 the vac tube was pretty close to being extinct outside Marshall Stacks and Fender twin reverbs.
Short answer ... barroom system ... 100W per is probably more than enough, Don't expect to DJ with it though.
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