Question on reciever

donedroolin

Hey been awhile since i posted anything. However I still have not purchased a reciever yet. I am waiting for my tax check an wanna buy the Parasound C2 controller and the A51 amp. The amp is rated 250 watts 8 ohm and 400 watt 4 ohms all contiuios all channela driven. This is a big purchse for me so i dont wanna make any mistakes. My RTi10s are 4 ohm right will I blow them with this amp,I do wanna upgrade to the RTi12s before the year is up. My center is the CSi5 and the rears are Fxi3s. What guage wire should I use for these speakers.The Parasound rep said he would set up my equipment and calibrate it for my room useing some sort of five mic set up he has.I wanna have the right speaker wire however. Now I'm using 16 guage monster wire. Thanks for help with this.

Zen Dragon

Your RTI 10's as well as the 12's you want to upgrade to are 8 ohm speakers. So you will be driving the 8 ohm rms power level and do not need to worry about overpowering your speakers. Any ampliifer can damage or blow a speaker if you are listening at levels with audible distortion.
The amp should be a great fit power wise with your speakers.
The 16 gage monster will work, you may want to consider upgrading the gage to 14 or 12, or upgrading to a good cable to gain some more depth to your sound.

donedroolin

Thanks for the quick response, I thought the 10s or RTis were 4 ohm. I will upgrade to better speaker wire.When you say cables you mean speaker wire or component hook ups. Will the CSi5 and Fxi3 be ok, cant wait to get this to hear how it sounds. Well thanks for all the advice and help!!!!!!!!!

Zen Dragon

When I said cables, I was referring to high end speaker connects/cables, which the term speaker wire doesn't justify.
Your CSI 5 and FXI 3 are also 8 ohms. The center is rated at 200 WPC and should be fine with the 250 the parasound can put out. The FXI's are only rated at 150W however. If you are planning on driving the system at extreme volumes you could damage them. Generally you don't run those kind of volumes in surround, but I don't know how you listen to movies.
So crank away in 2 channel and enjoy, but watch the volume a little in surround.
You've got a nice amp and system there. Enjoy.