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 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.