Powering RTI A7's with Pioneer Elite?

edhunter
edhunter Posts: 3
edited March 2012 in Speakers
I am about to bite on the RTI A7's & but a little concerned about my receiver being able to power these beasts. I have a Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV. It pushes a continous 130W per front channel at 8 ohms and 160 W per channel at 6 ohms. Will there be any lack of power with this? Everything thing I have read is they are power hungry and may need an amp . Thanks
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  • bansheesho
    bansheesho Posts: 227
    edited March 2012
    Not to hijack your thread, but I was also curious about this as I was toying with the idea of getting either the a7 or a9 and powering it with my pioneer sc-25 (140 w/ch)
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited March 2012
    It will power them fine as long as your not going for concert like performances.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,477
    edited March 2012
    edhunter wrote: »
    I am about to bite on the RTI A7's & but a little concerned about my receiver being able to power these beasts. I have a Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV. It pushes a continous 130W per front channel at 8 ohms and 160 W per channel at 6 ohms. Will there be any lack of power with this? Everything thing I have read is they are power hungry and may need an amp . Thanks

    Welcome to the forum Ed.

    That seems like a pretty capable AVR. There are a few variables; how many speakers are you going to power with it? How big is the room your equipment will be in?

    If you're not cranking it and you're in a small room, you should be okay. If you like to turn it up pretty loud, or if you're in a fairly good size room say 18x15 or bigger, you might want to consider feeding them some more power.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,753
    edited March 2012
    Set the speakers to small, cross to sub at 80Hz and you'll have no problems.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,011
    edited March 2012
    That receiver will be just fine on the A7's, small or large. The 9's might need a tad more, but like F1NUT said, if they are set to small and crossed over to a subwoofer, no problemo.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,201
    edited March 2012
    No issues I see , the 72 will power them just fine at any level small or large. I prefer Small with these speakers mated with a good sub.
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  • edhunter
    edhunter Posts: 3
    edited March 2012
    I do have a large room. Its 18x20 with 12-14' ceilings. I also have the csi6, fxi3, and the psw505. I want it to be loud and full. Thanks for the info
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  • ravaneli
    ravaneli Posts: 530
    edited March 2012
    I have Pio 1021 and exact same speakers like you, and DSW 660 sub. The A7s are biamped with the rear channels, which seems to make a difference in 2.0 music listen. The A7s are set to large all the time, and they sound great to me. I don't even push the volume all the way up. You receiver should have no problem. My living room is twice that size too. When listening to music I turn off the sub and bump the bass +4 and the A7s pound pretty hard. Almost as hard as my sub, but WAY tighter and clearer.
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  • gce
    gce Posts: 2,158
    edited March 2012
    I have a Yamaha RX A810 rated @ 100W per / 140 dynamic power per. It's powering RTiA7's / CSiA6 and FXiA6's with no problems. Listening to The best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler right now! :mrgreen:
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