Thiel Owners

According to audioadvisor specs the JC5 has a max of 90 amps/channel.  I tend to look at the size of the transformer and it has 1.7kva which is pretty darn huge.   

https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAHAJC5

Right On! Tom and John,
while it is nice to have a power amp that doubles down from 8 to 4 to 2, we must consider the peak (max) amps as well. If 90 Amps are not enough...?

Happy Listening!

Jon : corrected.

If I remember correctly voltage (v) = current(I) times resistance (r).  Watts equal volts(v) times amps(I).  That means that if an amp ever actually dumped 90 amps into a 4 ohm load it would be delivering 32,400 watts.  That's 43 horsepower.  It must be able to deliver that for a VERY short period of time or there's some other factor I don't know about.  I was a math major but I've never spent time trying to understand the numbers with this stuff and it's been a long time since I did any non-trivial math.  Is it phase angle related?

i=90
r=4

v = ir = 360

w = 360*90 = 32,400

1hp = 746 watts.

so, 90 amps into 4 ohms is 43.43 hp.

jon_5912
your math is correct. I also would like to know, precisely, how Right phase angle(s) in our Thiel speakers tie all of this together?  I do know that it is related to providing an Amp that is 2 to 3 Ohms stable across the frequency range. Perhaps one of our engineer -minded contributors can chime in here?
Happy Listening!