Making a difficult decision


I am trying to decide between a peachtree nova 150 or a parasound 135 both are intergrated amps. The parasound has a lot of power and connectivity options. The peachtree has power and connectivity also but what worries me is in the reviews I have read the build quality and the power supply not discussed. The parasound weighs47# the peachtree is only 17# this concerns me some. I plan on using them to drive my Magnepan 1.7s. Any thoughts?
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Geek, I believe that you are quoting an anechoic measurement for the sensitivity of the Maggie. But, as a dipole, the back wave will put out an approximately equal loudness to the front wave, so in room, without room gain, the speaker will be approximately 3db louder.

I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that the OP listens in stereo, (rather sad IMHO, but that’s for another time) so, with two speakers in room that’s another 3db. Add to that the room gain in the lower frequencies, and a 200 watt amp, with a low output impedance and decent current delivery is more than enough and should be able to produce levels in an average room that would be deafening, even subtracting for the increase in distance from 1m listening distance to 8 feet, line sources only diminishing by 3db per doubling of distance.