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Looking at a few of the technical specifications of the latest good wireless speakers, one cannot help but be at a loss in trying to compare various types. I am going to present a brief review of the output power specification to help you better understand the meaning of this term and how it relates to the performance of a speaker.
If you are looking to buy a pair of speakers to install in your home, you will often be confronted with a number of bizarre technical jargon describing its performance. But how do those numbers relate to how the loudspeaker sounds and how are these to be interpreted? Now I am going to clarify the "wattage" specification of loudspeakers. This term is one of the most fundamental and possibly important specs to understand.
"Wattage" is occasionally also called "Power" or "speaker output power". To put it in a nutshell, "wattage" relates to how much power your speaker can endure without damage. The bigger this number typically the louder your speakers. Depending on your application, you can pick a small speaker tolerating merely a few watts or a larger one tolerating a few hundred watts. Many smaller home speakers merely can be driven with several watts power which usually is sufficient for a small room. If you plan to shake your walls then you obviously wish to opt for a loudspeaker that has up to several hundred watts. For best audio quality, you may want to choose a speaker which offers higher power than you need since a lot of loudspeakers will exhibit rising distortion once the audio power goes up.
Power is either shown as "Watts peak" which means the loudspeaker can endure brief burst of this amount of power or "Watts rms" which shows how much output power the loudspeaker can tolerate for a longer period of time. The peak power rating in the past often led to makers stating big wattage ratings for tiny loudspeakers. Then again, in reality those speakers would not be able to tolerate bigger levels of output wattage for longer amounts of time.
Still, whilst the rms specification will tell you more concerning the speaker's actual performance, be sure though that the loudspeaker has a peak power spec which is substantially higher than the rms spec. This is since very likely you are going to be utilizing the speaker to reproduce music or voice. Music and voice signals by nature constantly vary in terms of their power, i.e. the power envelope of the signal is going to change over time. This is since at certain points in time the audio will show peaks of power that by far surpass the normal power of the signal.
Usually the impedance of the loudspeakers which you attach to your amplifier will determine how much power your amp can deliver. Loudspeaker impedance is measured in Ohms. Usually loudspeakers have an impedance between 4 and 8 Ohms. Amplifiers have a limited output voltage swing resulting from the fixed internal supply voltage. Therefore the highest output wattage of your amplifier is going to differ depending on the loudspeaker impedance. The smaller the loudspeaker impedance the higher the highest power your amplifier can deliver. Frequently maximum power is shown for a 4-Ohm loudspeaker impedance. Though, ideally the maker of your audio amplifier will publish which loudspeaker impedance the amp can drive. Please note that a number of amplifiers can't drive speakers with extremely low speaker impedance.
If you are looking to buy a pair of speakers to install in your home, you will often be confronted with a number of bizarre technical jargon describing its performance. But how do those numbers relate to how the loudspeaker sounds and how are these to be interpreted? Now I am going to clarify the "wattage" specification of loudspeakers. This term is one of the most fundamental and possibly important specs to understand.
"Wattage" is occasionally also called "Power" or "speaker output power". To put it in a nutshell, "wattage" relates to how much power your speaker can endure without damage. The bigger this number typically the louder your speakers. Depending on your application, you can pick a small speaker tolerating merely a few watts or a larger one tolerating a few hundred watts. Many smaller home speakers merely can be driven with several watts power which usually is sufficient for a small room. If you plan to shake your walls then you obviously wish to opt for a loudspeaker that has up to several hundred watts. For best audio quality, you may want to choose a speaker which offers higher power than you need since a lot of loudspeakers will exhibit rising distortion once the audio power goes up.
Power is either shown as "Watts peak" which means the loudspeaker can endure brief burst of this amount of power or "Watts rms" which shows how much output power the loudspeaker can tolerate for a longer period of time. The peak power rating in the past often led to makers stating big wattage ratings for tiny loudspeakers. Then again, in reality those speakers would not be able to tolerate bigger levels of output wattage for longer amounts of time.
Still, whilst the rms specification will tell you more concerning the speaker's actual performance, be sure though that the loudspeaker has a peak power spec which is substantially higher than the rms spec. This is since very likely you are going to be utilizing the speaker to reproduce music or voice. Music and voice signals by nature constantly vary in terms of their power, i.e. the power envelope of the signal is going to change over time. This is since at certain points in time the audio will show peaks of power that by far surpass the normal power of the signal.
Usually the impedance of the loudspeakers which you attach to your amplifier will determine how much power your amp can deliver. Loudspeaker impedance is measured in Ohms. Usually loudspeakers have an impedance between 4 and 8 Ohms. Amplifiers have a limited output voltage swing resulting from the fixed internal supply voltage. Therefore the highest output wattage of your amplifier is going to differ depending on the loudspeaker impedance. The smaller the loudspeaker impedance the higher the highest power your amplifier can deliver. Frequently maximum power is shown for a 4-Ohm loudspeaker impedance. Though, ideally the maker of your audio amplifier will publish which loudspeaker impedance the amp can drive. Please note that a number of amplifiers can't drive speakers with extremely low speaker impedance.
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