avr 300 & 4 ohm loads

[john R1]

noticed on the arcam web-site they state an output for the avr300 into 4ohm loads, am using mk speakers which are all 4 ohm except for the centre rear, seems my denon 3802 is struggling to drive them, would like to replace my amp/receiver very soon and was wondering if the 300 would be any good for driving the mks

 

[John Dawson]

I can't comment on other brands but I can say the AVR300 is designed to drive 4 ohm loads at 100 WPC, all channels driven simultaneously. I would therefore expect it to work properly in your set up.

John Dawson (Arcam)

 

[john R1]

Thanks for the reply, will demo one once rayleigh hi fi have them in, should go well with my basic dv88 as well, hope the arcam avr300 sounds ok with the mks, have read som threads on here saying pioneer amps are to bright sounding to match very well with the mks

 

[bedders]

Originally posted by John Dawson
I can't comment on other brands but I can say the AVR300 is designed to drive 4 ohm loads at 100 WPC, all channels driven simultaneously. I would therefore expect it to work properly in your set up.

John Dawson (Arcam)

Hi John,

I have Mission speakers - 78n models (see below for specific models), PDF files on the www.mission.co.uk website talk about them as being "8ohms compatible (min 5.6)"...

...will the AVR300 work ok with these speakers, biwired ?

Many thanks for your assistance.

 

[John Dawson]

Nik - yes the AVR300 will work just fine with your speakers; you should be able to use the 8 ohms setting on the amplifier, which delivers the most voltage swing.

Biwiring is fine - if you have a 5.1 rather than a 7.1 system then you can assign the two spare power amps to the L and R front channels and passively bi-amp them, which should sound even better.

HTH.

John Dawson (Arcam)