Continuous RMS watts/channel into 8 ohms 800 wattsContinuous RMS watts/channel into 4 ohms 1600 watts
Continuous RMS watts/channel into 2 ohms 3200 watts
//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif if you have speakers that need 400 watts, time to go back to the design board
Some folks like me prefer high impact sound from the loudspeaker, akin
to beating on a snare drum with a stick. That crack you hear is alot of energy
and trying to get a driver to reproduce this ain't easy. First, that transient
would clip the amp easy and squash the peak.
What do you do? You can use higher sensitivity drivers in the design. You
can use an amplifier with higher rail voltage. You can bridge an amplifier
to get 2x more clipping headroom.
For non bridged amps, if you want a higher rail amplifier you have to buy an
amplifier with high wattage ratings because that is how you get high rails.
I drive the NSB array with a 1200w/ch amp, not because the NSB's draw
1200w, rather the amp has 110v rails so clipping occurs at 110v. If I bridge
the pro amp and drive the array with 2400w, the NSB's aren't drawing 2400w,
but I now have 220v clipping headroom for transients. To make the sound
more uber and offer high impact, you wire the array for low impedance to
boost sensitivity. So, 220v headroom on 16 NSB's rated for 104dB sensivitity
can crack your head open with clean sound that resembles the real musical
instrument when struck hard... You should hear the jazz music that I play on
this array, the dynamic impact is insane, nothing in the store can beat it unless
it's a high sensivitity array and some of them are not wired for high sensitivity.
This is the real fun in audio, when you can crack skulls with transients.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
