Does an NAD T785 have enough power to drive a pair of Dahlquist DQ10?

[endsurg]

Does an NAD T785 have enough power to drive a Dahlquist DQ10 well? If not, can I add a Hafler DH 200 on one of the channels?

 

[Hobie1dog]

I wouldn't do it, they like power to sound good.

 

[twiiii]

There was one Mac owner that started out with either a 200 or 250 watt stereo amp and then added another one running both mono, and he was still not happy as I remember. All speakers compress the signal as you add more power. There is always a limit. I would be. looking for other speakers first. Remember I lived with a pair of Cornwalls and a 2105 while going to college for a while that my roommate owned. That was about 118 or 119 db at 4 ft. . I don't listen to commercial recordings much over 93 db at my listening position. I have measured 100 db peaks with my live recordings . Thats 112 db from my speakers or about 100 watts. But normally I listen between 2and 4 watts with 20 watt peaks. Thats -85 db for loud passages with very rare peaks of commercial pop recordings. Once in a while I will fire up a 45 rpm single disc or a Direct to disc recording and there will be larger peaks. .Some of Telarc recordings can sneak up on you. You ll notice their average recoding levels are almost 10 db lower than normal CD's so there is added head room for the peaks.