150 watt amp with 100 watt surround speakers

[Canada]

I am looking at the P 777 Arcam amp that can do 150 watts per ch, I have B&W 683's for fronts that are rated up to 200 watts so that fine. My HTM61 center channel is rated up to 150 watts. Where I run into trouble is with my surrounds B&W 686's which are rated at 100 watts, should I be fine if I am running them as surrounds, or should I be worried, as the amp can deliver more than the 100 watts specified by the 686's.

[rpatt]

Not a problem. In fact, the Harman White Paper on the subject recommends the amp should be able to put out twice what the speaker company recommends as max input wattage but most of us consider that overkill.

Here's a link.

http://www.jblpro.com/pub/technote/lowpower.pdf

[Canada]

My uncle was told something similar when he was buying speakers for his car he was told it is much easier to under power speaker than over power them.

[BigAl87]

Not an issue, I used my Rainmakers and Mites as fronts once in a while hooked up to the Bryston a 300wpc at 8ohms.

[Canada]

my next question is I'm probably only going to use maybe about 30-40 wpc and the receiver I have now can deliver that will I notice a difference in quality even at lower volumes?

[Halcro 1]

If you listen to 40 watts of music rms in a normal sized room you'll go deaf in a month..