In Reply to: Re: Are there any High efficiency planars? posted by Brendan on April 6, 2007 at 06:42:15:
Those Maggies are rated at 90dB/2.83v/m @500Hz. The trick there is they say 2.83V, NOT 1 watt. Now at 8 Ohms, 2.83V IS one watt, but we all know Maggies are 4-ohm speakers. The rating should say either 87dB/watt/meter or 90dB/2 watts/meter. And the rating is taken at 500Hz to boot.
All that said, I would not try ANY Maggie with less than 50 clean wpc. And most require 2-4 times that power. Maggies are wonderful speakers. I'm on my third set (nice new 1.6s) now, but they are woefully inefficient beasts.
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- But if you believe 90dB I have some swamp land . . . - HenryH 06:58:54 04/06/07 (0)