What happend swhen 130 watts speaker is connected to 200 watts amplifier

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I answered this last night.

Most amplifiers and receivers have an 8 ohm output, but check that. Amplifiers come in two specs for power output;

Watts RMS (Root Mean Square) and this is the best way of measuring as it is realistic. For those speakers, look for 50 watts RMS.

The other is 'Peak Power', and this is specified for sounding 'powerful', but is not realistic, as it is that Maximum output with all the distortion that comes with it because you are overworking the circuitry. For Peak Power, choose something no greater that 100 watts. You NEVER want to over-tax your speakers.

As I mentioned last night, these are Budget Speakers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=KLH+C130b

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Any you like. They are not a good speaker. Any Amp with 8 ohm output and maximum of 50 watts RMS or 100 watts peak power.

https://www.google.com/search?q=KLH+C130b+speakers

My speakers

https://www.google.com/search?q=wharfedale+linton

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200 watts is the output, home use or commercial? not a good amp to run at its max as it has a low reserve headroom. for home use 100 watts rms is more than enough.

All amps aren't created equal. More exspense amps put out "cleaner" power. You need to know what the RMS power rating is for the amp at 8 ohms and 4 ohms. Also, is the speaker an 8 or 4 ohm speaker? How you wire a speaker or speakers (series or paralell) can change the ohms (resistence) which will change the power put out of the amp. Also, I'm assuming you are setting it up in mono?

You could also use speakers rated less than 400 RMS provided you dont crank the volume knobs all the way up.
I think the CS400 is 200 Watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms
400 watts bridged

Here's the manual. You'll need acrobat to open it.

http://www.peavey.com/assets/literature/manuals/80300990.pdf

The head unit may be rated at 200 watts but it cannot produce more than ~20 watts of real power per channel. There's no way that it can drive the high end speakers to a level that will be needed to compete with the subs on a 1000 watt amplifier.

If this is the CH150, it's not bridgeable. Try connecting it normally (one speaker per channel) to see if it will produce output.

400 watts delivered to 300 watt speakers the only way to do this would be to wire two subwoofers in series so that the power needed to drive them will be 600 watts to max, however this will increase your impedance on the speaker (8 ohms) load so what you can do to compensate is get an 8 ohm 600 watt resistor and put it in parallel with the speakers you will then have 4 ohms of impedance at a total capacity of 600 watts of power In other words the amplifier won't blow these out now.

yes, you are "forgoing the 100 Watts of my integrated receiver and now just using the 100 watts from the external amp"