Luckily I have a 400 watt into 8 ohm
amplifier with about a 700 watt peak power reserve on top. Mosfet power, no tubes with those numbers obviously.
Those arrays now feature 25x Scan Speak 10F 8414G10 per side and have filters to make them act more like an expanding array. They use more drivers the lower one goes in frequency. Giving me a very
respectable DI graph to boot.
I have been a Mechanical Engineer for most of my professional career. Trained to be analytic in testing and relying on facts and science. So naturally, I followed the proposed idea that
all competently designed amplifiers
should sound alike. Like a wire with gain, right?
It wasn't until a very kind member of DIYAudio challenged me that I altered that opinion. He brought along
5 different amplifiers in my home to test with
my speakers. In his opinion they would all have a different character. For testing purposes we used my Radioshack SPL meter in-between to set the average level the same for each amp.
Sure enough they all
did sound somewhat different. Some more than others. So from that point on I too became a believer in amp/speaker synergy. I do now own 2 of the amps that were brought in for that test
. I still measure everything I do though
.