Recent content by Big T

Your midget is wrong. Larger speakers are more efficient because of the expanded cone area.

RU bought a BUNCH of stuff during the ADST sell off a couple of years ago. he made his business by selling the stuff on ebay, and has sold alot of good stuff over time (I've bought from him before). That being said, I haven't heard or used his put together comp sets.

The full history of the car audio line isn't laid out in that link. Phase was purchased by international Jensen in the late 80's. Jensen had originally started out as a high end car audio line, but had been relegated to the cheap name brands. So they bought Phase and Altec Lansing and used...

Try here, under museum. haven't updated this page in > 2 years, so forgive the cheesy HTML and the now dead taurus... may have to revamp the museum for my new page.... hmmmm

this is almost all wrong. a clipped signal DOES result in more power/time the vertical axis on the sine wave you are referring to is VOLTAGE an amp clips when it runs out of voltage. Unless you listen to DC, the voltage is always fluctuating..... 'irregular' signals (also known as music)...

this is where you get into practicality. Many people think that a clipped signal 'hangs' the speaker and doesn't let it cool, but the truth of the matter is the signal is changing 20-20,000 times per second, and the speaker is moving to match. where you play 0.5 hz tones, this may be an...

If you look at a perfect sine wave, and got out some crayons or magic markers and colored in everything between the wave and the x-axis (v=0), that would cover 50% of the graph. use square waves (to the same + - v), and you've colored in the rest of the graph. or doubled the power/time. Note...

no, because it caps at the output voltage. As a practical matter, it's nearly impossible, because 1. It sounds bad 2. It's extremely taxing on the amp and charging system. But when the concept of clipping killing speakers comes up, you look at the worst potential case (full square wave...

clipping an amp results in more power/time BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN AN UNCLIPPED SIGNAL FROM A LARGER AMPLIFIER a 100 watt amp that is completely clipped (driven into squarewave) will generate ~ the same amount of power as a 200 watt amp driven to just under clipping. If distortion...

less power does not blow speakers or else nobody could listen to a head unit....

I think there is a lot of 'stealth' marketing going on for this device. That should tell you alot.

marshoo may whine, but I pwn joo. *headshot!!!*