How much amplifier power do you need?

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bombaywalla
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#51 erstellt: 14. Okt 2009, 21:08

abhi.pani schrieb:

I dont have much exposure with Single driver horn loaded speakers...but whatever little I have auditioned, I found them to be very specialized kind of speaker suited for certain kind of music...so I would not be surprised if their amplification requirements are also very specialized

Manek schrieb:

Why should it be very different for horns or single drivers then ?

Or is it that high power amps kind of make up for inefficient(power sapping,complex) passive crossover networks in certain speakers ? Hence single drivers fair better with lower wattage amps ?

Manek

Guys, see my reply post above.
Manek, IMO you are correct - it's not much different for single-drivers (& I'm guessing it'll not be different for horns either).

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Arj
Inventar

#52 erstellt: 15. Okt 2009, 07:24

Really informative discussion

. while I could not really use Logic to understand(but then one persons logic does not match another persons

) the "ear" seems to say that power does make a difference.

Regarding the question on High sensitivity of speakers, my understanding is that the 1st Watt is extremely critical..thats were a lot of the midrange lies and I am not sure if the 1st watt of a 10W amp Vs a 1st Watt of a 100Watt amp will retain the same quality (assuming both are good and in a similiar comparison range) and if they do the increase in cost would be really exponential.( B'walla you had also hinted at iit in one of your earlier post)

So given the extra amount of $$ a higher power amp would cost, in the end it would be about what one is willing to compromise extra power for headroom vs thet extra resolution in the midrange..OR pay more $$$$

square_wave
Inventar

#53 erstellt: 15. Okt 2009, 07:55

If the quality of the design is identical for two amplifiers with differing power, then the higher powered may sound better. More ease, headroom for dynamics etc….
But therein lies the problem. Creating high power amplifiers while retaining superior design is a very expensive proposition. Hence people with high sensitivity speakers are better off with a lesser powered amp with superior design for the same money.

Nelson pass’s first watt amplifiers comes to mind here.

If budget is not an issue, the sky is limit. But this is almost never the case.