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The speakers are B&W Nautilus 803 units.
I've just been googling them and it looks like they each require a minimum of 50 watts and handle up to 250 watts at 8 ohms, and our current amp (Yamaha MX-2) produces up to 150 watts per channel at 8 ohms.
I'm having trouble finding the specs for the amp he had paired with them. But what little I've found questions my earlier statement about 800 watts. I wonder where I got that number? Maybe on a fuse cover on the back? That amp is an Audio Research D240 Mkii, and it looks like it may only produce 120 watts per channel at 8 ohms.
I'm not sure what all these numbers mean here, but I do know that I can't turn the volume knob (on the pre-amp) above 3 without hurting my ears. And the speakers sound amazing.
I know I'm sounding like an audio snob, but that's really not me. This equipment is all his hand-me-downs. And we got about 400 classical music CDs too. There's some good stuff in there.
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