804 Power protection

[nomad]

I have not had any luck finding information on the 804 power protection.

I am pretty sure they are rated 200W. I have put them on a rotel1090 (380W per channel)

Not sure if I should be turnning it WAY up or not ??

Anyone know if there is a failover currcut or soemthing in them???

Thanks in advance.

[Aussie Geoff]

Nomad,

The 804 does not have any internal fusing / overload reset switch.

However the best protection is to:
1) Use a very powerful amplifier (as you are planning to do) this avoids any clipping which is the enemy of speaker drivers
2) Use common sense with volumes - if you hear audible distress - turn it down... Most people would have trouble staying in the room a the volume a clean amplifier would need to play music at to break a 804... (115 dB+)

As an example Stereophile tested and raved about the 805s on their 1000W Musical fidelity Mono Blocks... Your 380W is only 3 dB above the speakers rated power - providing a useful headroom...

Regards

Geoff