Kef ls50 as desktop speakers

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• How many watts can I get away with on the low side?
• KEF LS50 Wireless Black (per pair)
• KEF LS50 Wireless Review: The Perfect Hi-Fi All-in-One Speaker System
• What desktop speakers are you using?
• Robot or human?
• KEF LS50 Wireless
• Active/Powered Speakers - KEF Speakers
• Desktop Speakers
• Better Computer Speakers Are the Upgrade Your Desktop Needs

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How many watts can I get away with on the low side?

Hi all, I am pondering a pair of 85bd efficient speakers for desktop monitors Kef LS50's. So there are mostly going to be listening to music at lowish levels or watching videoes or playing video games.

I am not looking for epic levels of volume here - its on my desktop and the speakers will be 2 feet way from me. That has to be tons I would think. What say ye lounge, how many watts do you think I should be pondering?

The catch being its just pushing the price higher and higher on the amp side. I am kinda thinking a Yamaha A-S for about double the price would obviate all my thoughts on enough amp. Basically as desktop speakers for your computer, it sounds like? I would say 22wpc is going to be fine.

Or at least worth a shot. I'll have some firsthand experience with the latter this week, but I've heard it's a fairly honest power rating. Even with low sensitivities it's hard to imagine needing more than 50wpc for desktop speakers.

Using a Belkin watt meter, the Onkyo idles at about 45W, and when playing music between 75 dB and 80 dB measured using a smartphone app , the power consumption rises to the about 47WW.

Considering the old NAD was only 20 watts a channel and can fill a small living room with loud metal music with the right speakers I feel pretty safe in assuming 20 watts is enough for normal music, video and gaming sitting 2 feet away from somewhat less efficient speakers. Anyone know of such a beast? Look at it this way: theoretically 1 watt per channel will get you about 88 db with the two speakers about a meter from your ears.

For me, thats the upper bound of "lowish levels. I always thought it was 1 watt got me 85 and the second got me Hey, its not a big factor until you are really cooking it those last 3 dbs are really gonna cost you if you are needing to go from watts to but that won't be happening for me. I am still thinking rather than being waaaay underclubbed, look at something like that Yamaha.

Gets me 3x the power for 2x the price and is fairly nice looking. At worst, if I want full on surround sound later, I can move an integrated into the gym room.

I am thinking now maybe throw in something like a Musical Fidelity Vdac in order to get to use the optical ouput of my sound card. So a Yamaha amp, a MF dac and a pair of Kef's to start and if I want more bass, maybe add a sub later.

I was trying to be cheap but I think there comes a point where you should spend some cash - if it wasn't enough juice from the n22, that would be money flushed. You are correct in a sense, but sensitivity is per speaker. Like an Onkyo TX Electronics are cheap nowadays.

Officer wrote: You are correct in a sense, but sensitivity is per speaker. Hmm, but an amplifier that is say watts per channel means that 1 watt can go to each channel; so the first watt gets you 85db out of each speaker, the 2nd watt gets you 88, the 4th gets you 91, the 8th gets you 94, the 16th gets you 97, the 32nd gets you , the 64th gets you and then, well, you run out to really get to as you don't have watts.

Did I miss something? If however I opt to put them into another room they are very very nice , they likely require a bit more juice than here. All I know is they are so nice, I am almost pondering not getting a sub woofer at all. Biggest pisser was the super deal I thought I could get from Amazon disappeared as soon as shipping became half the price of my order. If you have a stereo system, then that's 2 channels. Or back to the 1 watt example. You're right that 1 watt into a single LS50 will produce 85 dB at 1 meter.

Does that make more sense? Officer wrote: If you have a stereo system, then that's 2 channels. Hmmm, yea, that works. It also works favorably - every pair of speaker that I have always been thinking 'need a bit more oomph from the amp' just got a 3db boost in performance.

So these KEF's at 'only' 85db efficiency are actually, with 2, giving me 88db with my first watt of power. Basically, its not the first watt I was worried about, it was the one where you were going from 32 to 64 for instance. Instead of being at 32 going to 64 as per my previous understanding, I am actually at 16 going to 32 from the point of view of stress on the amp.

Currently looking at a Micromega IA given the difficulty of getting stock of the Yamaha here. Eats a bit of watts but it seems I have a few to spare. More relevantly, much smaller form factor so vastly better for WAF. Heck, the thing could fit underneath between the twin monitors. And as per the KEFs, damn. I was listening to a track and though 'oh fuck, something is wrong with them, there is a buzzing'.

No, something is wrong with the recording! I didn't even pick it up on the big stereo downstairs granted, not sitting in front of it listening critically. I have had to put in the plug to make them more like a sealed system generally a good thing imho and even used a bit of bass reduction. Incredible for such small speakers to have this performance. Its 60 into 4 ohms so probably a 45 watt into 8 amplifier. Its adequate for this room but its not shockingly powerful. That said, I am used to vastly larger in the home stereo so maybe its just initial impressions only.

I also find that now I have lost that bass boost I was initially experiencing so this amp must be a fair amount less 'boosty' - it wouldn't surprise me that the Cambridge mini system had built in bass boost.

This is much clearer for sure anyway. I didn't want to drop an extra few hundred for 40 more watts in a higher model anyway.

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KEF LS50 Wireless Black (per pair)

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KEF LS50 Wireless Review: The Perfect Hi-Fi All-in-One Speaker System

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What desktop speakers are you using?

Since I have my computer and screen on the desktop, I want something that does not take to much space, so the typical amplifier or big dacs are not interesting. Update v1. Opinions please. You wont have much of bass from that system, which at least to me is important not for bass music, but for the warmth and fullness of sound it gives.

Robot or human?

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KEF LS50 Wireless

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Desktop Speakers

Hi all, I am pondering a pair of 85bd efficient speakers for desktop monitors Kef LS50's. So there are mostly going to be listening to music at lowish levels or watching videoes or playing video games. I am not looking for epic levels of volume here - its on my desktop and the speakers will be 2 feet way from me. That has to be tons I would think. What say ye lounge, how many watts do you think I should be pondering?

Better Computer Speakers Are the Upgrade Your Desktop Needs

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