In Reply to: RE: 105db/meter NON horn loaded speakers posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on April 21, 2017 at 19:09:13:
-unless you are going by sensitivity spec only.
That spec does not tell the full story. Efficiency (1 watt/1 meter) tells more.
In the case of paralleling multiple drivers, the total system efficiency remains exactly the same. This is because the one watt gets distributed over the multiple drivers. So if there are 8 drivers, each gets 1/8th watt.
In a nutshell, by using multiple drivers you can increase the sensitivity (if they are in parallel; if in series the sensitivity goes down with each added driver) but the actual efficiency is the same as if you had one driver only.
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- Sorry- doesn't work that way. - Ralph 10:51:05 04/24/17 (2)
- RE: Sorry- doesn't work that way. - Bill Fitzmaurice 15:15:34 04/24/17 (1)
- RE: Sorry- doesn't work that way. - Inmate51 07:18:55 04/27/17 (0)