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rickman

wrote on 12/7/2017 5:10 PM:
On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3:34:36 PM UTC-5, wrote:

Either way, I know that 1100 watts rms is more than enough for a home
stereo...

I can make my ears bleed with Maggie speakers and a 200-watt amp in the one system, and AR speakers and also a 200 watt amp in another.

The difference between 200A and 1,100A is only a bit over 5dB anyway, so the question becomes "why"? And unless you enjoy flaming drivers, what sort of speakers are capable of handling that level of power for any sustained period of time? Sure, transients are a bitch, but a reasonable power-supply at 200 watts will handle them as well as 1,000+ amp.

Huh, what? If by 200A and 1100A you mean 200 watts and 1100 watts, then 5
dB is not accurate. It is more like 7.4 dB. I expect you did this in your
head and with a factor of 2 twice (6 dB) and accounted for the remainder in
the wrong direction.

I find oldschool amusing. I've read articles about using a 10 watt
amplifier (per channel) to fill a room with sound. So using a 50 or 100
watt amp to keep it far away from the slightly increased distortion from
running near the limit would be somewhat reasonable. But 1100 watts in a
home is pretty pointless. I guess you could get a volume control that goes
to 11 and keep it set below 1. Even then you might need a vernier
adjustment to be able to actually control the volume to a reasonable level.
lol

Think of it this way... In college I worked on a chemical instrument to
measure light absorption of solid samples by shining an intense
monochromatic, pulsed light source on the sample and then using a microphone
to detect the sound vibrations this produced. In that setup we used a light
source that produced around 10 watts of white light. If we had used 1100
watts we would have burnt up the sample we were working with... I'm just
sayin'

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Rick C

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