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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote odp Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 July 2012 at 1:10am
Originally posted by Saturnus Saturnus wrote:

The amp6 is only 2x15Wrms as any other class D amp on a 12V supply playing into 4 ohms will be.

Power output depends on 3 factors: Supply voltage, speaker impedance and amplifier efficiency. Nothing else.

That also means that each driver only sees 7.5Wrms. Is it possible to damage the amplifier by this? No. It has built in protection, and frankly if a person can't hear severe clipping distortion and turn down volume way before that would become a problem he should probably not listen to music at all as he will have permanent hearing loss.

Technically though with music signals the average is far less. The Boominator for example uses about 4.2W at max volume with music. And 0.7W of those is quiescent current use which is not the same a idle consumption, it's the current used for operations that is unrelated to variations in output power. Idle consumption includes various bias currents as well. So in fact each woofer only sees 0.8W on average at full volume and each piezo sees about 0.05W (the resistor in series sees the other 0.05W).



Holy shit...sorry!

That is amazing it completly undermines my excisting understanding of sound systems, knowledge and I just lost all respect for the most well known companies. I will defo do some voltmeter action tomorrow, I am in shock!!!


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theory does not seem to work with those digital amplifiers, just built it and take it out to the park, play till the battery dies :)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote davey t Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 July 2012 at 11:46am
Interesting questions asked.

The main thing to remember is

1. Speaker impedance rating is a minimum... it varies throughout the frequency range and the average is much higher.

2. Compared to a sine wave. Average music material contains 1/8th the power when running at same max amplitude
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