Looking to get a bit more bang for my buck out of some speakers.

Uncoordinated · Jan 22, 2019

My first year of college I bought a couple of speakers and subwoofer off of craigslist for like $100. The speakers are the Infinity IL10 model. The subwoofer appears to have its own amp built in and each speaker is rated at an impedance of 8 ohms and 50-150 Watts. The preamp I'm currently using is the Pyle PFA200 with a total power output of 60 Watts. It says the impedance is rated for 2-8 ohms. The subwoofer gets plenty loud, but I'm looking to get a little more sound out of the two speakers. I don't know a whole lot about amps and speakers other than that the impedance should match up. Does anybody have any recommendations for another amp to buy to make the speakers a bit louder?

punkncat · Jan 22, 2019

There is nothing to really be done about the sound those speakers are going to produce. They are lower end and old. I would also point out that Pyle amps are known to be over rated on power output, so it's probably not really putting out 60W anyway.

I would recommend putting a few dimes together and doing another search for a possibly used set of speakers that you research a bit first, and a better amp/receiver/etc.

jdlech2 · Jan 22, 2019

OK, so your Pyle PFA200 puts out 60W maximum total power. That's 30 peak per channel, which is probably about 21W RMS into (hopefully) 8 ohms. Half that if they rated it at 4 ohms. A quarter that if they rated it at 2 ohms (likely). So it could be (probably is) as little as a 5W amp.
Enough speculation - let's look at that amp.
https://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PFA200/60-Watt-Class-T-Hi-Fi-Audio-Amplifier-with-AC-Adapter-Included

Judging by its specs - I see it says right on the back that its powered by 12V DC and consumes only 2 amps. Dude, that's only 24 watts. It cannot possibly put out more wattage than it consumes. There is no way on Gods green Earth that this can put out 60 watts when it only consumes 24. It is physically impossible for any amp to produce 60 watts of power while consuming only 24 watts. So I have very strong evidence to believe that amp is putting out 5 - 9 watts per channel at the absolute most.

In other words, your amp is grossly under powered for those speakers. Your speakers expect you to plug in a minimum of 50W RMS into 8 ohm rated amp.

Get yourself a real amp. Something between 50-150W per channel RMS into 8 ohms.
How much can you afford to spend on an amp?

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