If I'm understanding your question....Don't know the specs of the PA's you mention but...it's likely an issue of higher gain (i.e. resulting in greater signal strength to the PA outputs) with your old PA. You SHOULD be able to attain the same volume, albeit, with the volume control closer to 100% with the new one as the old one... Some PA's (e.g. the Calypso) have a jumper that you can change gain (check your manual)...and affect volume control range. Generally speaking, if the (unclipped)volume that you attained before cannot be (mostly) attained with the new pre. there's probably something wrong with the PA(or one of your pres has a really exotic design/gain). Yes, absolutely, a speaker change will modify the volume but...that's a whole 'nother discussion.
Changed preamps. Seems like less power now?
I recently changed my preamp from a Rotel 1070 to an Anthem TLP-1, and have noticed that my system seems to have less power. I have to really push up the volumn to get any decent high levels, where is with the other preamp, it got very loud easily. Does a preamp effect the output of the power amp. I don't know if I should change it back out, or maybe go with a higher powered amp. I run Thiel CS.5, and they seem to be hard to drive compared to some other speakers I have owned. Thanks for any help
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