In Reply to: Re: If your amplifier is clipping, have you left the realm of high fidelity? posted by Dan Banquer on November 1, 2006 at 12:39:40:
The average power was reading 1 Watt most of the time, which would give 89 dB SPL by the speaker sensitivity estimate. The peak power of 240W was only on one particular track of one CD (the Rikki Lee Jones track), and that was only for an instant. So it wasn't like we were listening to 110 dB SPL for anything other than a brief instant of a cymbal crash (which actually didn't sound that loud at all). I suspect the speakers were probably compressing that peak a good bit too.
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- Just to clarify... - andy_c 18:19:01 11/01/06 (68)
- Re: Just to clarify... - Dan Banquer 05:39:21 11/02/06 (67)
- Amen. Distortion figures, too. - markrohr 09:40:21 11/02/06 (6)
- Re: Amen. Distortion figures, too. - Pat D 12:37:37 11/02/06 (5)
- Re: Amen. Distortion figures, too. - Dan Banquer 16:40:24 11/02/06 (3)
- Re: Amen. Distortion figures, too. - Soundmind 04:23:21 11/03/06 (2)
- Re: Amen. Distortion figures, too. - Dan Banquer 04:36:07 11/03/06 (1)
- Re: Amen. Distortion figures, too. - Soundmind 05:53:37 11/03/06 (0)
- Yup. Wish Stereophile would follow suit. - markrohr 13:28:07 11/02/06 (0)
- Re: Just to clarify... - morricab 09:16:17 11/02/06 (59)
- Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - Dan Banquer 09:42:04 11/02/06 (58)
- Re: Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - morricab 01:14:50 11/03/06 (57)
- Re: Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - Dan Banquer 05:27:55 11/03/06 (56)
- Re: Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - morricab 07:16:55 11/03/06 (55)
- Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - Soundmind 14:49:40 11/03/06 (49)
- It's your lucky day, SM! - E-Stat 18:06:40 11/05/06 (0)
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - E-Stat 14:07:31 11/05/06 (0)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - morricab 01:26:57 11/04/06 (46)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - Pat D 07:31:39 11/04/06 (40)
- Buy a speaker that does not have a roller coaster curve like the arbitrary test load - E-Stat 06:08:33 11/06/06 (33)
- But many, many speakers have a roller coaster impedance vs. frequency curve. - Pat D 07:19:38 11/07/06 (32)
- Well, I've always chosen the speaker first - E-Stat 11:21:34 11/07/06 (31)
- Re: Well, I've always chosen the speaker first - Pat D 20:27:06 11/07/06 (30)
- I'm just not sure about one thing - E-Stat 12:26:10 11/08/06 (29)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 17:55:17 11/08/06 (28)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 02:07:36 11/09/06 (23)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 07:23:35 11/09/06 (22)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 08:32:16 11/09/06 (21)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 15:46:49 11/09/06 (20)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 03:33:42 11/10/06 (19)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 05:12:54 11/10/06 (18)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 06:53:50 11/10/06 (17)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 08:53:38 11/10/06 (16)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 13:59:48 11/13/06 (15)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 22:58:54 11/17/06 (14)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 08:50:46 11/20/06 (13)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 11:12:10 11/21/06 (12)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 02:29:01 11/22/06 (11)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 05:54:22 11/23/06 (10)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 09:43:31 11/23/06 (9)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 14:21:56 11/23/06 (8)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 16:36:58 11/23/06 (7)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 11:13:37 11/25/06 (6)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 18:22:50 11/25/06 (5)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - Pat D 18:15:15 11/27/06 (4)
- Other sources of information - morricab 09:05:17 11/29/06 (0)
- Re: I'm just not sure about one thing - morricab 07:32:33 11/29/06 (2)
- Do you listen that loud? - Pat D 13:57:44 11/29/06 (1)
- Re: Do you listen that loud? - morricab 09:11:29 11/30/06 (0)
- Misstatements? - E-Stat 18:49:56 11/08/06 (3)
- Re: Misstatements? - Pat D 15:16:06 11/09/06 (2)
- Feel free to interpret the data as you please - E-Stat 15:41:20 11/09/06 (1)
- Why don't you use the more accurate NRC data? - Pat D 22:27:51 11/09/06 (0)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - morricab 02:07:08 11/06/06 (3)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - Pat D 04:57:15 11/06/06 (2)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - morricab 06:31:15 11/06/06 (1)
- Re: Here's an amplifier you'd die to own...if it had somebody elses name on it - Pat D 22:02:37 11/06/06 (0)
- This is not an amplifier you'd want to use with the 4 ohm 12" AR based speaker system - Soundmind 08:39:25 11/04/06 (1)
- Re: This is not an amplifier you'd want to use with the 4 ohm 12" AR based speaker system - Pat D 08:04:43 11/05/06 (0)
- Morricab, like other subjectivists, you are an ignorant fool - Soundmind 06:08:00 11/04/06 (4)
- Re: Morricab, like other subjectivists, you are an ignorant fool - morricab 01:57:59 11/06/06 (1)
- Re: Morricab, like other subjectivists, you are an ignorant fool - john curl 10:43:20 11/06/06 (0)
- Re: Morricab, like other subjectivists, you are an ignorant fool - Dan Banquer 13:20:14 11/04/06 (1)
- Re: Morricab, like other subjectivists, you are an ignorant fool - morricab 01:27:40 11/06/06 (0)
- Re: Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - Dan Banquer 07:53:24 11/03/06 (3)
- Don't forget to mention the Cheever thesis in your article - andy_c 20:29:19 11/03/06 (0)
- Re: Hummmmmmmmmmmmm. - morricab 08:08:01 11/03/06 (1)
- As I expected: When it comes to putting your money where your mouth is... nt - Dan Banquer 09:38:02 11/03/06 (0)
- Re: As I expected: When it comes to putting your money where your mouth is... nt - morricab 01:28:22 11/04/06 (0)