How to power speakers - new system or amps?

by Eugene
(Haslet,Texas)

The Monoliths

I have built these for my system but my Kenwood VR-517 is not enough to power these monsters. I knew this going into the project.

They are 5'11" tall by 2'0 deep and 13" wide. The speakers are kickers and pyles. Each tower has 2 12" L3's and a 10" L3 kicker. There are 2 5"inch pyles and 2 1" pyle titinum tweeters. Each of the kickers are in their own separate box with their own port. The lower 12" speakers I want to use as subwoofers for surround mode. The remaining 12", 10" and mids and tweets are for left and right surround sound or for listening to music.

Total max watts for each tower is about 3000 watts. I know this looks like over kill but we like to crank it up on the weekends.

I have found some amps on the internet that would work for these. One amp is 3000 watts peak and the other is 1500 watts peak.

The question I have is do they make a an AV tuner that has preouts to do this? Or maybe you have an ideal that will work? I attached a picture of these as my daughter calls them MONOLITHS. I await your response.

Thanks Eugene

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New Receiver
by: Ringmaster

Quite some system you have! You might want to make sure you have these guys fuze protected.

The Yamaha RX-Z11 has line outputs for the equipment you need, as well as two line outputs for sub-woofers; however, it is their "Flagship" $5000.00 item. This unit also has both Analog & Digital AM/FM radios.

Yamaha has some newer lower priced receivers that have some of the latest "Dolby" technologies; including their "Volume Levelling". You may want to check this out.

You might want to make sure that the receiver you purchase has Volume Levelling capability, similar to "SRS Technologies". Yamaha's newer units have this capability; however, the RX-Z11 does not!

Good luck with your system.

Supply High Power to Left &
by: John Anderson

You probably have your problem solved by now...

There is another possibility: You could purchase a new good quality receiver that has line outputs for the right and left channels, and purchase two high power amplifiers (one for each channel) to feed your speakers.

I don't know if any of the High End receivers such as Marantz, among others, that can handle the power you that you require. If you should find one, it would probably be cheaper to go the route suggested above.

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