Can a small amp power 2 bookshelf speakers?

Any regular receiver will work fine with regular bookshelf speakers. The Paradigms are great for this purpose. 

Edit: I gather the Sony isn't a regular receiver.

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Originally Posted by JasonZ10 

Alright, thanks, do you think I'll suffer from any quality loss with the receiver being pretty weak?

Na, you should be good

Looking at that Sony amp it doesn't have normal/standard speaker post like most speaker amps that you can use with any speakers. I don't think it will work.

That Sony amp speaker posts looks like it only works with the speakers it comes with and possibly other types of mini 5 channel type speakers from looking at pics.

From what I see I really don't think you can use it for bookself speakers and if it can be used I'm pretty it will be really underpowered for bookself speakers.

And the Fiio is not a speaker amp but a headphone amp.

If you want to run some bookself speakers your going need to buy a different/new speaker amp.

There are some speaker amps that are also very good headphone amps so you might want to not buy the Fiio but get a good speaker amp and have it also be a headphone amp.

I didnt realize that your receiver looks like the type that powers the speakers thru the subwoofer... those are pretty horrible I had a Panasonic receiver like that. you will need a new receiver, go with a cheap stereo receiver like this

 http://www.amazon.com/Onkyo-TX-8255B-TX-8255-Stereo-Receiver/dp/B001AMSPQI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314647856&sr=8-3

or

get this

http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-HK-3490-Radio-ready/dp/B00198F89A/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1314647896&sr=1-2

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Originally Posted by mibutenma 

Looking at that Sony amp it doesn't have normal/standard speaker post like most speaker amps that you can use with any speakers. I don't think it will work.

That Sony amp speaker posts looks like it only works with the speakers it comes with and possibly other types of mini 5 channel type speakers from looking at pics.

From what I see I really don't think you can use it for bookself speakers and if it can be used I'm pretty it will be really underpowered for bookself speakers.

 

And the Fiio is not a speaker amp but a headphone amp.

 

If you want to run some bookself speakers your going need to buy a different/new speaker amp.

There are some speaker amps that are also very good headphone amps so you might want to not buy the Fiio but get a good speaker amp and have it also be a headphone amp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My PC audio set up is a cute Tripath TA2020 amp powering some old school Polks  It really depends on what you intend to do i.e if you have inefficient speakers and thinking lung busting loud in a medium/large room a beefy amp/avr is in order. I merely need a near field listening set up and with my 89dB Polks i must say the TA2020 drives them sweetly and louder than i ever need so hoped my input helped 

FiiO do offer a little speaker amp too, the A1