Best speakers for Rotel amplifier

[Haggerz]

Hey I just bought a Rotel RA-935BX amplifier and it sounds great, I was just wondering if anyone knew of what speakers would best match this amplifier Thanks

 

[mtrycrafts]

Hey I just bought a Rotel RA-935BX amplifier and it sounds great, I was just wondering if anyone knew of what speakers would best match this amplifier Thanks

Any amp that will drive it properly based on the speaker impedance and sensitivity, period.

 

[Haggerz]

I mean what make of speakers would work best with my amp

 

[herbu]

I mean what make of speakers would work best with my amp

The "make" of speakers doesn't matter.
This amp is fairly lightweight. It is rated at 40wpc min RMS both channels driven into 8ohms 20-20kHz. Look for speakers whose minimum power rating is 40w or less, reasonably sensitive, and sound good to you.

 

[Haggerz]

Yeah why would you use 40 watts or less? Surely using speakers that the impediance aren't less than 8 ohms you will be alright.

 

[herbu]

Yeah why would you use 40 watts or less?

Not sure what you're asking here.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Yeah why would you use 40 watts or less? Surely using speakers that the impediance aren't less than 8 ohms you will be alright.

Buy a speaker that is very sensitive and the one you like

 

[Seth=L]

Yeah why would you use 40 watts or less? Surely using speakers that the impediance aren't less than 8 ohms you will be alright.

Speakers are usually rated on "acceptable amplifier range". So you'll see a speaker that is rated thusly.

25-100 watts recommended 200 watts peak.

This just means the manufacturer of the speakers suggests that you use their speaker with an amplifier that is between 25-100 watts continuous power. A peak power figure tells gives you a theoretical amount of power the speaker can handle in short bursts (not continuously).

As others have said, you should probably look for speakers that fall into that suitable power range. I'd probably go no less than 87dB 1w/1m for efficiency if you want to reach reasonable output levels. If you're looking to get crazy loud you'll need to push for something 93dB 1w/1m or better to achieve high output with only 40 watts to work with.

I will say this. First you had a Leak amplifier, now you have a Rotel integrated amplifier. It seems curious to me that someone that doesn't know much about home audio equipment keeps happening across decent midfi equipment but for whatever reason cannot find decent speakers.

Do you mind if I ask where your general location is? Where did you find this Rotel amplifier and how much was it?

 

[ImcLoud]

What is your budget, first off..

I would personally be looking at maybe tekton mini lores?

 

[fmw]

Hey I just bought a Rotel RA-935BX amplifier and it sounds great, I was just wondering if anyone knew of what speakers would best match this amplifier Thanks

The ones that sound best to you.

 

[3db]

I would purchase a pair of speakers that sound good to you and have moderately high or high sensitivity (high 80s and up ) so you can get some good volume from the speakers without driving the amp into clipping.

 

[Haggerz]

Speakers are usually rated on "acceptable amplifier range". So you'll see a speaker that is rated thusly.

25-100 watts recommended 200 watts peak.

This just means the manufacturer of the speakers suggests that you use their speaker with an amplifier that is between 25-100 watts continuous power. A peak power figure tells gives you a theoretical amount of power the speaker can handle in short bursts (not continuously).

As others have said, you should probably look for speakers that fall into that suitable power range. I'd probably go no less than 87dB 1w/1m for efficiency if you want to reach reasonable output levels. If you're looking to get crazy loud you'll need to push for something 93dB 1w/1m or better to achieve high output with only 40 watts to work with.

I will say this. First you had a Leak amplifier, now you have a Rotel integrated amplifier. It seems curious to me that someone that doesn't know much about home audio equipment keeps happening across decent midfi equipment but for whatever reason cannot find decent speakers.

Do you mind if I ask where your general location is? Where did you find this Rotel amplifier and how much was it?

I am from Yorkshire and found this amp on eBay for £50 I think it was a bad move now as I have been using it perfectly fine but now it's starting to play music alright for about 10 seconds then shuts the sound is to the speakers but the power is still on, I'm using 6 ohm speakers and the amp has a output of 4 ohms and I have checked that the wires at the back aren't touching do you or anyone else have any ideas as to what could be causing this annoying problem

 

[markw]

It's not a lack of power that's your problem. Back "in the day" of my youth, 20 watts was considered a lot and 35 wpc was considered a super amp and attaining acceptably high volumes was not a problem.

Assuming you have no shorts in the speaker wires, it sounds like the amp is fried.

 

[Haggerz]

It's not a lack of power that's your problem. Back "in the day" of my youth, 20 watts was considered a lot and 35 wpc was considered a super amp and attaining acceptably high volumes was not a problem.

Assuming you have no shorts in the speaker wires, it sounds like the amp is fried.

It still plays music alright but only for about 10 seconds then makes a clicking noise when it cuts the sound of from the speakers, it's as if it's tripping out but the power remains on, and you can turn the amp off and back on again and the sound will play through speaker again for another 10 seconds until it does it all again

 

[Seth=L]

Try different speaker wire, make sure you don't have a short. It's the most common problem.

 

[Haggerz]

I have found that this switch here which is the power switch is hit and miss and that is what clicks off and shuts the sound off, it's just weird how the red power light stays on though but as you can see it has a line drawn on it in blue pen which looks like someone has been into this before me

 

[Seth=L]

The blue mark is probably from the factory. You'll see stuff like that all the time inside brand new components.

The red light remains lit for a small period after turning the amplifier off because the capacitors are bleeding off excess stored energy, this is normal.

Being that you're not extremely well versed in amplifier maintenance, I recommend replacing the cover and going back and getting new speaker wire, double check your connections. Make sure no bare wire is touching the chassis of the amplifier and that no wires are touching each other.