Watts and power
audiozenology"I do know for a fact it puts out 75% more power into 2 ohms than it does into 4 ohms." That is a very interesting statement, assertion, and claim how do you know this to be true? This is like you're other pronouncements where you state something as 'fact" but offer no proof, documentation, or data except sometimes a link to a "source" that you Googled. |
audiozenology"I do know for a fact it puts out 75% more power into 2 ohms than it does into 4 ohms." He has no idea. If what he said were true everyone that calls themselves an audiophile would be using them, and there would be no need for Krell’s, Gryphon’s Agostino’s, ect that can come close doubling from 4 to 2ohm, we all be using this $349 3000w Behringer he’s touting or similar. Like I said, he has no idea, all he's good for is beating his chest and stalking. Cheers George |
There are two types of people:
I don't know any audiophile who would make putting 75% more power into 2 ohms than 4 ohms their defining criteria for purchasing an amplifier. Do you? |
The idea that doubling power is important springs from the concept that loudspeakers are ’voltage driven’. What this means isn’t that the speaker is driven by voltage (despite the expression), it means that the power that drives the speaker is such that the voltage aspect of the power is constant regardless of the load. (Voltage is an aspect of power just as current is; 1 watt equals 1 volts times 1 amp.) IOW such an amplifier is termed a ’voltage source’. The thing is, an amplifier **DOES NOT** have to double power as impedance is halved in order to act as a voltage source!! Tube amplifiers can behave as voltage sources (after all, the this idea was originated by MacIntosh and ElectroVoice back in the 1950s) and they certainly don’t ’double down’... But they **can** cut their power in half as impedance is *doubled* and that is how they manage being a voltage source. The thing is a solid state amp does that as well. Its only at **Full Power** where 'doubling down' might make a difference and right after that is clipping, so its not that big of a deal since the amp really should not be running anywhere near full power if its a good match with the speaker. So in a nutshell the ability of an amplifier to double power as impedance is halved is not what makes for a good sounding amp, and it may not be important at all; certainly with most speakers on the market its not. In fact the number of speakers that have horrendous amplifier-torturing load impedances (and phase angles) is actually pretty limited. Its a simple fact that the harder you make an amplifier work, the more distortion it makes so its unlikely that a speaker that is horrible to drive is going to sound like real music regardless of the amplifier employed. So the whole thing is a bit of red herring. |
And this one🤷♂️, well what can I say but, new/old product protection mode? Looks like we'll never see an amp from him that can give hopefully give more than 50% wattage from 4ohms down to 2ohms especially the "old amps" the "new amp" when it released "may"?? if all the stars are lined up. The classic statement from him was, "Our OTLs do a nice job on the Wilson Alexia" This is what that would look like (amp being the bulge). https://images.boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/14-woman-sleeps-with-python-731x457.jpeg Cheers George |
