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<blockquote data-quote="Bake" data-source="post: 1730650" data-attributes="member: 561779"><p>Actually a two channel amp rated at 400watts x 2 should provide 400 watts on each of the two channels. A couple of things to consider are wheather the 400 watt rating is peak power or RMS power. If peak, it will seldom make that much power and will be full of distortion at that level. If RMS, It should make a clean 400 watts continuously at a given load (say 4ohms) per channel. I assume when you say per speaker you are connecting one speaker to each channel. Keep in mind that the load (ohms) determine the output of the amp not how many speakers are connected. If you connect a single 4ohm speaker to each channel or a single 2ohm speaker to each channel your output power will change significantly. You could connect several speakers to each channel and if done correctly your amp would see the same load as if only one 4ohm speaker were connected. In this case the power per channel at a given load would be divided between all speakers connected.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bake, post: 1730650, member: 561779"] Actually a two channel amp rated at 400watts x 2 should provide 400 watts on each of the two channels. A couple of things to consider are wheather the 400 watt rating is peak power or RMS power. If peak, it will seldom make that much power and will be full of distortion at that level. If RMS, It should make a clean 400 watts continuously at a given load (say 4ohms) per channel. I assume when you say per speaker you are connecting one speaker to each channel. Keep in mind that the load (ohms) determine the output of the amp not how many speakers are connected. If you connect a single 4ohm speaker to each channel or a single 2ohm speaker to each channel your output power will change significantly. You could connect several speakers to each channel and if done correctly your amp would see the same load as if only one 4ohm speaker were connected. In this case the power per channel at a given load would be divided between all speakers connected. [/QUOTE]

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