Hi,
I'm pretty new to passive speakers but wanted to give it a try as my rokit 6's had terrible hiss and trafo humm. (no, it was not a ground loop)
Speakers: I wanna get similarily big speakers with a deep low end, up to 450€ per pair, no subwoofer
In the selection are currently Nubox 313, QA 3020i/3030i, Wharfedale Diamond D320, and *maybe* teufel ultima 20 (though this probably has a terrible low end)
Other Hardware: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2G + ART DTI Dual Transformer/Isolater
Room: the left one will be with it's edge against the wall and 35 cm away from the corner. right speaker will only be 35 cm away from the wall with 2 screens in between.
Listening distance is under 1 meter.
All the reviews got me super excited for the loxjie a30, i'm excited about having the option to use optical from mobo instead of my focusrite usb soundcard because of rare driver shennigans
But after all i've read about amplifiers in the last weeks, it seems to me that such an amp is quickly really undersized.
Now i also found the SMSL DA-9, which uses two of the amp chips that the loxjie uses. There are barely any reviews of that online but it looks promising..
With the loxjie at 4 ohms and 100 dba i'd be running at 20 watts, with the distortion starting to rapidly rise at 40 watts.
The DA-9 seems to get distorted at 50 watts... maybe the graphic is for 8 ohms? Certainly it would have quite a bit more room to "breathe"
Now i have no clue how this "airy" sound works or if it will be even a problem with those speakers i selected.
I guess the QA 3020i and 3030i would be a bit hard to drive, i assume the "airyness" gets lost when the amp tries to deliver peaks of over 40 watts? or is it just about the rms?
I calculated the volume at my listening position and even at 6 ohms, 20 watts i would get 100 DBa - but no clue if that's even loud enough.
Hope you can help me tidy up my thoughts
Thank you
I'm pretty new to passive speakers but wanted to give it a try as my rokit 6's had terrible hiss and trafo humm. (no, it was not a ground loop)
Speakers: I wanna get similarily big speakers with a deep low end, up to 450€ per pair, no subwoofer
In the selection are currently Nubox 313, QA 3020i/3030i, Wharfedale Diamond D320, and *maybe* teufel ultima 20 (though this probably has a terrible low end)
Other Hardware: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2G + ART DTI Dual Transformer/Isolater
Room: the left one will be with it's edge against the wall and 35 cm away from the corner. right speaker will only be 35 cm away from the wall with 2 screens in between.
Listening distance is under 1 meter.
All the reviews got me super excited for the loxjie a30, i'm excited about having the option to use optical from mobo instead of my focusrite usb soundcard because of rare driver shennigans
But after all i've read about amplifiers in the last weeks, it seems to me that such an amp is quickly really undersized.
Now i also found the SMSL DA-9, which uses two of the amp chips that the loxjie uses. There are barely any reviews of that online but it looks promising..
With the loxjie at 4 ohms and 100 dba i'd be running at 20 watts, with the distortion starting to rapidly rise at 40 watts.
The DA-9 seems to get distorted at 50 watts... maybe the graphic is for 8 ohms? Certainly it would have quite a bit more room to "breathe"
Now i have no clue how this "airy" sound works or if it will be even a problem with those speakers i selected.
I guess the QA 3020i and 3030i would be a bit hard to drive, i assume the "airyness" gets lost when the amp tries to deliver peaks of over 40 watts? or is it just about the rms?
I calculated the volume at my listening position and even at 6 ohms, 20 watts i would get 100 DBa - but no clue if that's even loud enough.
Hope you can help me tidy up my thoughts
Thank you