I spoke to Matt from Tool Shed ............he was upfront about the fact that the Heresys need more than 4 watts regardless of what their sens. spec suggests.
Mine worked really well with a 2 watt set EL84 amp.
I spoke to Matt from Tool Shed ............he was upfront about the fact that the Heresys need more than 4 watts regardless of what their sens. spec suggests.
Mine worked really well with a 2 watt set EL84 amp.
My take on that is it might depend on how you like to listen.
There are some folks who have the music (or whatever) playing in the background....and there are others who might lean into the volume more often.
If you're one of the leaners, you might want more beef.
I once had the Transcendent SE-OTL amps. Around 1 1/2 watts per monoblock but, can be bridged to four watts. I had a pair of them so I had them bridged.
Quality of their sound was good (probably the favorite of anything I've ever owned) but....the downside is, I'm definately a leaner....and like to turn things up more often than not...and they simply didn't have the horsepower to do what I wanted.
(mind you, this is on Khorns not Heresy's)
Had they had 50 watts, I'd been in pig heaven..... but at 4 watts.... I ended up selling them.
I doubt you've ever used much more than a single watt when driving the K-horns
My take on that is it might depend on how you like to listen.
There are some folks who have the music (or whatever) playing in the background....and there are others who might lean into the volume more often.
If you're one of the leaners, you might want more beef.
I once had the Transcendent SE-OTL amps. Around 1 1/2 watts per monoblock but, can be bridged to four watts. I had a pair of them so I had them bridged.
Quality of their sound was good (probably the favorite of anything I've ever owned) but....the downside is, I'm definately a leaner....and like to turn things up more often than not...and they simply didn't have the horsepower to do what I wanted.
(mind you, this is on Khorns not Heresy's)
Had they had 50 watts, I'd been in pig heaven..... but at 4 watts.... I ended up selling them.
Bet you're wrong!
Unknown to you, I "listen" to my system many times while I'm in another room or indeed, a different part of the house.
The most absurd example, years ago, I was working on finishing the basement. Jubilee's are upstairs. Keep in mind, the Jubilee's are 2-way, actively biamped. At the time, I had a dbx BX-1 on the bass bins and a McIntosh MC-2102 on the K402 horn (or tweeter if I might call it that)
I'm downstairs, have my 5-cd changer playing upstairs. I'm using a pneumatic nailer, so I have an air compressor going on/off. I'm using a circular saw so I have that noise... I have my heavy duty OVER-ear protection on (because of the construction)... so I have the volume upstairs "blaring" loud so I can still hear it downstairs, through the noise & ear protection.
Suddenly, the CD changed, new disk came on. New disk was a LOT hotter than prior and the volume went from loud to thunderous. I immediately feared blowing something so went running upstairs (keeping my hearing protection on) as I was heading up the stairs, I was curious what kind of power I was using.
As I raced across living room to kill the volume knob, I stole a glance at the McIntosh meters. They weren't moving. They were dead still.... they were PEGGED at max power. The 2102 as I recall, was rated at 100 watts/channel. I doubt I was actually using 100 watts on the tweeter horn alone... but it was not loud....it was violently loud.... much, much too loud even working in the basement.
Turned volume down to "merely loud" and went back at it in the basement.
I've never forgot that event (mistake!)
I can however, assure you that because I listen while in other areas of the house, I'm probably frequently going over the 105 db's in volume. (not while I'm in the room with them though)
Very nice kit. Got four sets of the Hereseys in one of the spare bedrooms.View attachment 1474078 View attachment 1474079 View attachment 1474081 View attachment 1474082 I'm running a Mac mc275VI with Mac C2300 and pr.HeresyIII ,love it so far ,warm and smooth yet detailed !!
I'm downstairs, have my 5-cd changer playing upstairs. I'm using a pneumatic nailer, so I have an air compressor going on/off. I'm using a circular saw so I have that noise... I have my heavy duty OVER-ear protection on (because of the construction)... so I have the volume upstairs "blaring" loud so I can still hear it downstairs, through the noise & ear protection.
OSHA defines 90 dbs as hazardous to one's hearing.