Question About Polk RT-16's with wattage?

IIIEXOCETIII
IIIEXOCETIII Posts: 9
edited August 2005 in Speakers
Ok guys got a ? for you all. Didnt really see anything in the forums that covered this so i figured i would just give it a shot. I have a pair of Polk RT-16's w/ Center Channel as well. My question is the other day i went out to go by a theater system as a package, I then ran into these speakers that my dad wanted to sell me so i bought them. But i noticed on the back that it said "Use Amplifiers From 30-250 Watts" So i decided to see if they would run on the system that i bought.. So i took the speakers off the system and plugged in the polk's Sounds great!!! But am i gonna hurt anything doing it that way.. Do i always have to have 30 Watts running through them? Im going to be buying a Harmon/Kardon reciever here within a week or two. But for the mean time am i going to be hurting anything. I know some speakrs have a RMS that you have to meet otherwise damage can occur. I just want to make sure that im not gonna hurt anything pushing them with a smaller reciever than i usual? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!. :confused:
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited August 2005
    The typical rule of thumb is the more power, the better. You can underpower speakers and that can cause damage, but you'd have to grossly underpower them or feed them a very dirty signal for that to typically happen.

    THe H/K stuff is typically ok. What power are you running the RT16's with currently and what's the wpc on the H/K that you're looking at?
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  • IIIEXOCETIII
    IIIEXOCETIII Posts: 9
    edited August 2005
    Well currently the system that i am using is 300w total power. So i would assume if i divided that by five im pushing 60 watts per channel. Do you think that would be ok to continue to run them on or should i seriously consider getting the reciver. Now there is a subwoofer jack on there as well for a non powered subwoofer so i assume that might eat up a little wattage as well but not quite sure. If that was the case i would be pushing 50 watts per channel. Hopefully i shouldnt be hurting them to bad. But just wanted to make sure.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited August 2005
    First of all, systems that advertise as XXXw total power are ones to avoid. DEFINITELY upgrade the receiver, and if you can manage to get a receiver that's at least 80-100wpc you will LOVE those speakers. I have 3 pair of them myself and for years ran them on an Onkyo receiver and was constantly amazed at how deep they can go.

    Good luck.
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