Monitor 4, sensitivity?

Mud
Mud Posts: 2
edited March 2010 in Vintage Speakers
Hi, this is my first post- I just got a pair of little Monitor 4 bookshelf speakers and am contemplating pairing them with an upcoming low-wattage tube project. I have searched the web to no avail to find what the sensitivity of these is; for low power tube apps one generally looks for 90+db...

They sound great so far on an old NAD 3020 though!
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited March 2010
    They are in the 90+ dB range. I run a pair of Monitor 5B's (larger cousin to the 4's) with a 14wpc all tube integrated (6V6 powered) and it does fine.

    http://www.polksda.com/pdfs/MonitorReferenceManual.pdf

    see page 10 of the owners manual
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • Mud
    Mud Posts: 2
    edited March 2010
    Fantastic! Thanks sooo much. :)
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