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Contributor II
May 23, 2025

SONOS AMP with focal aria 906 . too much power amp for those speakers ?

  • May 23, 2025
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HI, I have a sonos amp 2X125W and I want to put 2 speakers focal aria 906 who need 20 to 120w 

I want to know if my sonos AMP is too powered for those speakers ? 

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Oliver75Author
Contributor II
May 25, 2025

So if I read all comments no risk at all using this combinaison AMP/speakers ?

Senior Virtuoso
May 25, 2025

So if I read all comments no risk at all using this combinaison AMP/speakers ?

Sorry, but there’s no way we fellow users can guarantee “no risk at all”. 

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
May 25, 2025

As has been said the only risk is you running the speakers past the point they are able to produce decent sound. That risk is HIGHER with a smaller Wattage amplifier, not less.

A hammer is perfectly safe unless you misuse it and pound a finger bloody.

Oliver75Author
Contributor II
May 25, 2025

So if I read all comments no risk at all using this combinaison AMP/speakers ?

Sorry, but there’s no way we fellow users can guarantee “no risk at all”. 

Of course but I’m asking if it was a descent combinaison and not a bad one 😊

buzz
May 26, 2025

Personally, I would not hesitate connecting these components together. The AMP is one of the safest amplifiers available.

We humans have been conditioned to equate distorted with ‘loud’. We keep advancing the Volume until we perceive distortion, then declare ‘loud’. In this respect AMP will never get ‘loud’.

In my college apartment, before SONOS existed, we could operate at levels making verbal communication very difficult, but we had not yet reached the distortion threshold. We’d have guests approach, hands cupped, yelling in our ear “turn it up”, because it did not seem ‘loud’ yet. This same crew in another venue used a struggling little compact system, playing ‘loud’. Conversation was easy.

Trending Lyricist I
May 26, 2025

I’ve been running a pair of KEF LS50 Metas (40-100w) for years with the Amp 2*125w, no problems whatsoever.  You’ll been fine in any scenario or use case, your speaker/amp pairing is not something to worry about.

Oliver75Author
Contributor II
May 26, 2025

I’ve been running a pair of KEF LS50 Metas (40-100w) for years with the Amp 2*125w, no problems whatsoever.  You’ll been fine in any scenario or use case, your speaker/amp pairing is not something to worry about.

Thanks for your feed-back , very usefull 👍 

 

buzz
May 26, 2025

So if I read all comments no risk at all using this combinaison AMP/speakers ?

I don’t think you will sleep well unless you contact FOCAL and get their approval.