In Reply to: re: a transformer's REAL operating impedance posted by Paul Joppa on February 16, 2015 at 10:12:25:
In practice, it is impossible to separate the loading effects of a speaker from the performance of the amplifier itself. However, it has always been my goal to optimize the amplifier first, and the system second. To accomplish this, more and more of my "acoustic" testing over the last few years has employed resistively-padded headphones rather than speakers. I don't have the equipment or environment to measure speakers, but when headphones sound good and speakers don't (with a particular amplifier), I know the speakers are a bad match.
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