prodj101 Posted November 10, 2002 Share Posted November 10, 2002 "*Maximium Burst Power indicates the actual power this amplifier will deliver to the speakers under normal operating conditions. While the FTC power rating indicates power available on a continuous, long-term basis, multi-channel systems do not rely on that type of power. Instead, the amplifier is called upon to deliver large, short-term bursts of power to be able to support todays digital music, games and movie formats. In addition to the required FTC power rating, we have provided the maximum burst output as a better indication of the products true performance." For some reason this seems a little dishonest to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Flynn Posted November 10, 2002 Share Posted November 10, 2002 Is that from a SUB spec? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prodj101 Posted November 10, 2002 Author Share Posted November 10, 2002 yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted November 10, 2002 Share Posted November 10, 2002 SuperDJ, They had to invent a new rating to give some credibility to the ProMedia line.And after all with the WATTS wars you cannot play fair.As Logitech,Creative and just about any company under the sun gives MBO when quoting system amp "power".The Cambridge MegaWorks have 500W total MBO watts(RMS my a$$)same with Logitech.Its all MBO,if anyone thinks they will get true full bandwith RMS they dream in color. Quality amps and high wattage is expensive and NOT for under $500 PC speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale W Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Most of todays solid state gear runs on a high capacitor discharge format. The caps store power and discharge it when called apon as to not drain down line voltage to failure.Ratings are like vodoo and can be well under or well over what they specify. A single speaker is basically a moter. Midrange and woofer drivers are bigger moters than tweeters,and thus need more juice to make them jump 'n' jive. Therefore we need to be especially careful with the impedance a speaker presents to an amplifier in frequencies below 500hz ( with extreme care to frequencies below 80hz) I've found some spec charts to be total crap and unreliable while others to be grossly underated. guessing games !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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