Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I run a pair of speakers which have a(n admittedly better than average) rated sensitivity of 94dB/watt (at 0 distance from the speaker). I use an amplifier that won't deliver any more than about six clean watts. They'll play eviction-loud.
Crown has a nice amplifier calculator on their website: http://www.crownaudio.com/en-US/tools/calculators
An 86dB sensitive speaker, which is typical of an average not-very-sensitive bookshelf, will still play at 85dB with about 3 watts at a distance of 2m. That's not quiet.