Why not horns?

If you take 6 different drivers, unless they have perfectly linear transfer functions, they will all have slightly different responses. If they all have the same input signal their responses should smooth to a more linear response.
It may be to small to be audible which is why I stated that it MAY be argued to be better. But it doesn't change the fact that these differing nonlinear transfer functions should become more linear as a whole.
The reduction in distortions, which is what Weseixas picked up on, should have been a little more obvious.

And honestly, I'm not going to retract anything either. I don't doubt that you (Herman) teach electronics but I am still a little wary as to why, when I said "parallel", you assumed bridge and didn't seem to know the difference.

I had written a lengthy explanation to all of this but Audiogon rejected it for being too long. This is probably a good thing.
So I'll just sum up in a few lines.
First, your equations make sense for DC and purely resistive AC. But this is not how drivers directly coupled to amplifiers behave. The whole argument arose from an example I gave as to why Avantgarde would chose to use a high power amp on an already sensitive speaker. This had nothing to do with the assertion that the basshorn could not be sensitive BECAUSE it has a large amp.
Because this line of arguing really has no relevance to the thread. And because we seem to be on different verbal wavelengths here. I'll simply refer you to Balanced Audio Technology for an explanation on why they list their Vk-75 as a 75watt amp and why they list their Vk-150 as a 150watt amp. Even though the only difference between the two is the internal paralleling of the inputs and outputs and a different nameplate on the VK-150. Any more explanation as to why this matters on a complex load I leave to them.

Cheers, and goodnight, for now.

I completely understand the difference in parallel and bridged.

I completely understand that parallel amplifiers cannot double the power output. I remain confused that you insist they do.

I saw nothing on the BAT site that explains why their amps do this. Maybe I missed something.

I accept your apology

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Weseixas asks: "What models are you displaying [at RMAF]?"

Duke replies: My current plan is to show a bipolar model called the Cloud Chaser. It's fairly new - not up on my website yet - but is described in my Audio Circle forum.

If you take 6 different drivers, unless they have perfectly linear transfer functions, they will all have slightly different responses. If they all have the same input signal their responses should smooth to a more linear response.

Sorry, a complete load of crap.

Are you serious? You add up a bunch of errors and the total error is less than any individual error?

You've already embarrassed yourself with your theory about parallel amps. Might be better to retire now and save face.

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