We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often
Sorry I know this is a bit of a rant, but come on people!!
Too many audiophiles find speakers which are hard to drive and... stick with them!
We need to reject hard-to-drive speakers as being Hi-Fi. Too many of us want our speakers to be as demanding as we are with a glass of wine. "Oh, this speaker sounds great with any amplifier, but this one needs amps that weigh more than my car, so these speakers MUST sound better..."
Speakers which may be discerning of amplifier current delivery are not necessarily any good at all at playing actual music.
That is all.
this may help... ... also don't confuse input sensitivity of an amplifier with its power output
I watched the video, not sure PM did the job of explaining the difference between the quality of a Cambridge audio watt vs the BHK. How would somebody confuse power output with input sensitivity or is input sensitivity a possible reason for the low volume differences I'm hearing? |
@steve59 Wrote:
Maybe this will help. Why is the first watt important? See below: Mike |
Typically, speakers respond to the amount of current available…. Basically the number of electrons instantaneously available when a bass note comes along. Watts does not measure this. Amps do. I remember getting my first truly high powered amp it was 250 wpc… but could put out around 4 amps… that was roughly what my arc welder put out at work. When you have that much power in your amp, it just grabs your speaker and says…”do this”, and compliance is mandatory. It does it. |
