Help with LSi9 power management
Milsivich
Posts: 43
First things first:
Parasound 2100 (link)
Parasound 2125 (link)
LSi9's (link)
MicroPRO 3000
I love my system, and I think it's absolutely perfect for the room (relatively small) that I have it in. I rarely turn it up at all. The problem at hand is that I'm hosting a party at my house in about a week, so I'll be moving it into a much larger room. I'm the kind of person that gets really paranoid about breaking things. It's kind of a personal problem, but I really can't help it. To expand on this, it's difficult for me to do things like pumping up a tire, because I get this feeling that it's about to break.
Anyway, in my smaller room I have the gains in the back of the amp set at less than half, and even then I only ever get the volume on the preamp up to half if I'm listening to classical music. The recommended watts for the LSi9's is 20-200, and my amp is 200. My question is this: is there any danger in turning up the volume past what I am used to? What are the chances that I'll break something if I get my preamp volume up past half (with the gains still set at about 1/3 maximum)? I'm actually very ignorant when it comes to the relationship between gains, volume, and actual watt output. I realize that most things in sound are on a Log scale, so it's a little confusing when I start trying to figure out how much power I'm actually putting into my speakers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm putting in 100 watts if my gains and volume are both at half (200/2).
TL:DR -- I'm hosting a party and I want to know how loud these speakers can safely be played at, in terms of gains and volumes.
Thank you so much for all of your all's time!
Parasound 2100 (link)
Parasound 2125 (link)
LSi9's (link)
MicroPRO 3000
I love my system, and I think it's absolutely perfect for the room (relatively small) that I have it in. I rarely turn it up at all. The problem at hand is that I'm hosting a party at my house in about a week, so I'll be moving it into a much larger room. I'm the kind of person that gets really paranoid about breaking things. It's kind of a personal problem, but I really can't help it. To expand on this, it's difficult for me to do things like pumping up a tire, because I get this feeling that it's about to break.
Anyway, in my smaller room I have the gains in the back of the amp set at less than half, and even then I only ever get the volume on the preamp up to half if I'm listening to classical music. The recommended watts for the LSi9's is 20-200, and my amp is 200. My question is this: is there any danger in turning up the volume past what I am used to? What are the chances that I'll break something if I get my preamp volume up past half (with the gains still set at about 1/3 maximum)? I'm actually very ignorant when it comes to the relationship between gains, volume, and actual watt output. I realize that most things in sound are on a Log scale, so it's a little confusing when I start trying to figure out how much power I'm actually putting into my speakers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm putting in 100 watts if my gains and volume are both at half (200/2).
TL:DR -- I'm hosting a party and I want to know how loud these speakers can safely be played at, in terms of gains and volumes.
Thank you so much for all of your all's time!
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I think you would really have to juice the crap out of them to ruin anything. I play my 15's with an adcom 5802 very very loud in a pretty much open loft and haven't ever had problems.
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What kind of amp do you have?
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He's useing Adcom's. I use a Parasound HCA1500 and have the gain turned all the way up. I'm sure the music will be way to loud to be comfortable before you do any harm to anything.What kind of amp do you have? -
A party ? Where's our invite bro ?
Turn the gain up on the amps and you should be fine. One important thing to remember in a party situation, make sure everyone knows not to touch your stuff, including the volume dial.HT SYSTEM-
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lsi 9's -
First things first:
Parasound 2100 (link)
Parasound 2125 (link)
LSi9's (link)
MicroPRO 3000
I love my system, and I think it's absolutely perfect for the room (relatively small) that I have it in. I rarely turn it up at all. The problem at hand is that I'm hosting a party at my house in about a week, so I'll be moving it into a much larger room. I'm the kind of person that gets really paranoid about breaking things. It's kind of a personal problem, but I really can't help it. To expand on this, it's difficult for me to do things like pumping up a tire, because I get this feeling that it's about to break.
Anyway, in my smaller room I have the gains in the back of the amp set at less than half, and even then I only ever get the volume on the preamp up to half if I'm listening to classical music. The recommended watts for the LSi9's is 20-200, and my amp is 200. My question is this: is there any danger in turning up the volume past what I am used to? What are the chances that I'll break something if I get my preamp volume up past half (with the gains still set at about 1/3 maximum)? I'm actually very ignorant when it comes to the relationship between gains, volume, and actual watt output. I realize that most things in sound are on a Log scale, so it's a little confusing when I start trying to figure out how much power I'm actually putting into my speakers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm putting in 100 watts if my gains and volume are both at half (200/2).
TL:DR -- I'm hosting a party and I want to know how loud these speakers can safely be played at, in terms of gains and volumes.
Thank you so much for all of your all's time!
Crazy the phobia's we deal with eh?
It's fairly easy to hear when a speaker is being operated above its pay grade. You'll hear distortion, things will start to collapse up top. I was auditioning a pair of classic Snells at a guys house that I met on craigslist. He decided he wanted to crank them. I immediately noticed things weren't "open", the sound started collapsing. Sure enough after about a minute I started hearing distortion from the right tweeter, the dude FRIED it.
You don't have to be paranoid but LISTEN and make sure you don't have songs that jump 10db. There's always that one "hot" song that someone ripped and added volume to or something because they definitely didn't leave the mastering studio that way. You have enough juice to parrr-tay so have fun. -
I think it might be best to increase the power amp output and decrease the preamp volume. Anyone?
