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Heresy wattage?


DwK

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We have a pair of the origional Heresys, does anyone know how many watts they can take?

They are hooked up to a Natural Sound Yamaha A-500 on the A switch.

ALong with Fisher STV-873's on the B.

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K6-2 450

SB Live Value ( not 5.1)

Klipsch Pro Media v2 400 ( soon to be 4.1 )

2 Fisher STV-873's on front channel

2 Fisher surrounds on rear channel

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dw, from this site: http://www.klipsch.com/index.asp?path=/products/homeaudio/classic.asp?frame=y&id=&line=&1

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Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr

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Thanks

I'll go tell my grandfather now, he doesnt have to worry about blowing his Heresys, with his old Yamaha.

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K6-2 450

SB Live Value ( not 5.1)

Klipsch Pro Media v2 400 ( soon to be 4.1 )

2 Fisher STV-873's on front channel

2 Fisher surrounds on rear channel

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DwK, It really makes no difference what a speaker is rated to handle. The important thing is that the power you are giving it is CLEAN power. You will find that any Klipsch speaker can handle 2, 3, 4, 5 or more times as much continous power than it is rated for. You run into problems when you start feeding any speaker distortion. That will fry it quicker than anything. So, stay away from running the amp to its limit.

I would rather have a 500 watt / channel amp running a pair of Heresy's than a 25 watt, and have to worry about the amp clipping. Although, my ears might think differently.

Live long and prosper!Text

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RC-3 : center

RS-3's : surrounds

KSW-12: subwoofer

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well, we have it hooked up to that Yamaha.. Anyone know anything about it?. My grandfather did alot of listening and research, the Heresys and the Yamaha is what he got, about 30 years ago..

I think It should be safe.

We never turn it up past 1/2 way, thats just to darn loud.

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K6-2 450

SB Live Value ( not 5.1)

Klipsch Pro Media v2 400 ( soon to be 4.1 )

2 Fisher STV-873's on front channel

2 Fisher surrounds on rear channel

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