Official Premier Acoustic PA-8F Thread - Page 8

What are you going to use to drive them?

Dude, you gotta get a receiver and hook those puppies up! LOL.....

And How! The auction for $199 has ended. Man, I'm glad I got a pair because now they'll cost you double the price. Still worth the money but at $199 it was a steal!

Sorry your disappointed with the 89dB. I agree, they shouldn't be advertising them as such. But the usual rule of thumb is + or - 3dB. Also, these speakers wanna be driven by a receiver with some decent power output. How many watts does your integrated amp put out?

That can't be a true 100 watts per channel because my Yamaha receiver is 95 watts per channel and if I ever turned it up to 80% the paint would peel off my walls let alone turning it up all the way. There's no way I could do that so I can almost say for sure that your MSI Media Live Diva is not a true 100 watts per channel. I once had a Sony receiver that claimed to be 110 watt per channel and it couldn't have been more than half that in true wattage. A lot of these companies bloat their specs. Ever see some of these home theater in a box sets that claim to be 1000 watts of power then when you get them home and hook them up they don't have 1/4 of that power. That's bloated specs. I'm not saying your MSI Media Live Diva is doing that. All I'm saying is if I ever put my receiver 80% up your ears would bleed so I'm almost certain your MSI is not putting out a true 100 watts per channel. They're probably basing that on peak wattage and even then it sounds a little bloated. Anyone else agree with me here?

What's goin on Zippo? Hope all is well? Yeah, I also agree. There's no way that his MSI soundcard is a true 100 watts per channel. Like you If I play my Yamaha at 50% it's shaking the walls. That's the difference when you buy a quality receiver like an Onkyo, Denon, Harmon Kardon, Marantz, or Yamaha. If it says the receiver is 100 watts per channel then that's what your gonna get. A lot of companies like to bloat their wattage specs. Like I said before, I bought a Sony from Frys.com and it claimed to be 110 watts per channel. But when I hooked it up and started to crank it the true wattage couldn't have been more than 45-50 watts per channel and when played at loud levels it would get distorted. Anyway, I packed that puppy up and returned it the very next day. That's another reason to buy a quality receiver. When you pump up the volume it's clean undistorted sound. I'm also loving my PA-8F's. They're starting to sound even better as their getting close to their break in period. Later dude!

I can't really say for sure what speaker line they compare to. All I can tell you is that they sound awesome. I had the Acoustech line of speakers prior to the PA-8F's and the horns were sickening to say the least. They were very harse and they over exaggerated the highs like nothing else I've ever heard. The other thing that bothered me about the Acoustech's was the fact that low frequencies were literally non existent. If you put you ear close to the Acoustech speakers all you would hear were those overbearing horns and hardly anything coming out of the drivers. The PA-8F's are much warmer and the drivers are far more present but the highs from the 1" dome tweeter are nice and crisp not harsh and over bearing like the horns on the Acoustech's. I am a musician and also have quite a few musician friends and every single one of them said that the Acoustech's were bright and harse sounding. The PA-8F's plain and simple cut the mustard when it comes to the highs, mids, & lows. I love them. Just browse through the rest of this forum to see that I'm not the only one saying this. When I went on the Acoustech forum to voice my opinion on the Acoustech's I was attacked like you wouldn't believe. The only thing I can think of is that the people who bought the Acoustech's spent decent money for their speakers and did not want to hear in the slightest fashion any negative reviews. I guess they were very offended by what I said? In any case, I'm totally satisfied with the PA-8F's. They rock with both Movies, & Music!

This is true, they were clearing out the old for the new thus the reason they were $199. But I'll bet the dealer didn't tell why they were clearing them out for so cheap did he? I'll get to that later. Also, of course the dealer is gonna tell you that the newer model is far superior than the older now that he's sold out all of his inventory and all he has left is the Titanium inventory. That's just common sense. That's because now he wants to get you to buy the Titanium PA-8F's being that's all he's selling now. They also happen to have the same Mylar drivers minus the middle cone and they're just a different color "silver". That's the only difference. I'll bet he also didn't tell you why they changed the drivers did he? It's because Klipsch is threatening to take them to court for copyright infringement because Klipsch felt the bronze and black drivers resembled the drivers they were using in their own speaker line. This is the very exact same reason why Acoustech also had to change their bronze & black drivers to what they're also calling their new "Titanium" line. The older PA-8F's are not even that old. If you look at the specs on the so called newer Titanium PA-8F's you'll see that they're exactly the same as the older PA-8F's. Exact! Even down to the the dimensions and weight. The only thing that's far superior on the newer Titanium PA-8F's is the $470 price tag. That's about it. But as far as performance goes their identical so if I were you I wouldn't be so happy that you didn't get the chance to steal a pair for $199 because if you buy the Titanium PA-8F's [which appears to now be your only option] your going to be getting the same exact speaker as the $199 PA-8F's.

Dude, I happen to like Foreigner a lot. I seen them live with the original singer [Lou Gramm] right before he had to leave the band due to his illness. His voice was no where near the same but overall they still sounded good and were very tight. I have the the Foreigner Alive & Rockin and Foreigner Live At Deer Creek DVD's. The Alive & Rockin DVD is with their current singer [Kelly Hansen] and the Deer Creek DVD features Lou Gramm. Both are good. The sound on the Alive & Rockin DVD is better. But the Deer Creek isn't bad either. Especially when pumping them through the PA-8F's. Hehehe........