New seakers not enough power?

[Polar Bear]

Good day folks


I am purchasing Totem Hawks and Totem Lynks surrounds tonight through a local used deal. I will be using these speakers with an infinity cc and a psb sub (5.1)

Heres for the newbie question......will my Yamaha HTR 3063 be ok to run this set-up for now? it will be used for 80% tv/movies and 20% tuner but would like to add a cd player later

Im pretty spent on cash for a pre-amp and amp (if thats the way to go?) at this time

any input please

 

[AVRat]

Yes, no problem.

 

[GranteedEV]

my experience with totems is that they'll hit their physical limitations long before your amp hits its limitations. THey're just not designed to get loud in big rooms.

 

[jostenmeat]

my experience with totems is that they'll hit their physical limitations long before your amp hits its limitations. THey're just not designed to get loud in big rooms.

Thankfully the Hawks (according to Totem) have a 88db sensitivity (but no other units are given as far as distance or voltage), because I've seen some Totems of the past with extremely low sens like 81-82.

And they used to have lot of Dynaudio drivers in their speakers, yes? I think those drivers were actually supposed to be pretty robust, but I don't know if it would be the rest of the speaker design that may have led to your impressions.

Anyways, my impression was that older Totems nearly required robust amplification, if perhaps not for the Hawks.

 

[GranteedEV]

Thankfully the Hawks (according to Totem) have a 88db sensitivity (but no other units are given as far as distance or voltage), because I've seen some Totems of the past with extremely low sens like 81-82.

And they used to have lot of Dynaudio drivers in their speakers, yes? I think those drivers were actually supposed to be pretty robust, but I don't know if it would be the rest of the speaker design that may have led to your impressions.

Anyways, my impression was that older Totems nearly required robust amplification, if perhaps not for the Hawks.

well, i think the one was 87db sensitive i auditioned used a single 5 inch peerless driver. not a bad speaker but the 40w amp was bottoming it on somev deeper bass. just something i would use with a subwoofer crossed 80-120hz. perhaps the hawks have more displacement than the arros but they still appear to be two driver two ways. 100 wpc should really be all you need. they're rather pleasant speakers but appear designed for bedrooms or apartments is all. 100wpc ia definitely a lot of power.

 

[GranteedEV]

I juat saw a pic of the hawks. that mid/bass driver looks like the scanspeak revelator. definitely a beast. as long as the speaker impedance curve doesnt give the amp troubles 100w should give a very nice experience in a medium sized room. i would still cross them to a sub.

i also reread my comment earlier and I want to say to OP that the totems should get reasonably loud with 100wpc and crosses properly shouldnt bottom out. there just isnt much point in trying to squeeze an extra 3 db or so with a better amp unless it sounds strained or awkward due to impedance.

its not uncommon that you hit the physical limitations of drivers before running out of power.

 

[Polar Bear]

Thanks for your input guys!!! I have a major problem though! On one of the Hawks the tweeter does not work (no sound at all) and one of the Lynks the same thing ( nothing from the tweeters Woofers are ok