Beomaster 2000 (291x) Speakers

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iagreewithjosh Posted: Sun, Aug 20 2017 2:12 AM

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Hi All,

I have just inherited my mum's Beosystem 2000 with a pair of Beovox X35 speakers. I'm looking to upgrade them and really like the idea of the Redlines but am unsure if the small output power of the amplifier would be enough to drive say the RL 45.2 or RL 60.2 to their full potential? Or would it be better to get a pair of the RL 35's to get the maximum out of the speakers?

Also, on the Beoworld pages for the 45.2 and 60.2 speakers it says that both of them handle the same amount of power? I was under the impression that the 60.2's could handle 15 more Watts over the 45.2's. Is this correct and there is a typo on the site? Or can the both handle the same and the only difference in the sound comes from the larger cabinet and different speaker configuration?

45.2: https://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=657
65.2: https://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=659

Cheers

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Dillen replied on Sun, Aug 20 2017 7:22 AM

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If by "driving the speakers to their full potential" you mean choosing speakers with the absolute lowest matching power rating and then playing them
close to the point where they will burn, then that's not really a good idea.
You can connect speakers with a very high power rating, the Beomaster 2000 is not particularly powerful but it will play what it can and
as long as you keep the volume at a level where the sound is clean and undistorted, everything will survive (including your ears).

Owners often pay far to much attention to power ratings.
I get questions every week  asking "will my 25W speakers be destroyed if I connect them to my 30W amplifier?".
No, they will not.
In most cases you will come no higher than a few W at normal livingroom level and only if you really press the volume at parties will you
get "up there".
And 5 W will not make a huge difference then.
Actually, a to weak amplifier is more dangerous than to small speakers. A pressed amplifier will easily start distorting the signals, which
produces a huge amount of harmonic distortion (lots of energy in the treble range) that could easily kill tweeters in even very large speakers.

Regardless of your setup, if you play at volumes with no distortion, nothing will go wrong.
And RL 60 has a higher power rating than RL 45. If Beoworlds product pages says otherwise, they are wrong. 

Martin

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iagreewithjosh replied on Wed, Aug 23 2017 1:15 PM

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Thanks for your reply Martin.

I was just concerned that the Beomaster 2000 would not have enough power to move the cones of some bigger of the speakers. But I guess the volume can just be turned up to achieve the same level (within the distortion free limits of the amp).

That's also good to know about a weak amplifier. I assumed that they would have built in measures to prevent it from becoming too distorted.
I don't plan on pushing the system anyway. Just a nice lounge room stereo.  

Thanks