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- From: rmunk@daimi.aau.dk (Rasmus Munk Larsen)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: How are speaker impedences specified?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.074735.19044@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 07:47:35 GMT
- References: <TRsaqB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>
- Sender: rmunk@daimi.aau.dk (Rasmus Munk Larsen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- I certainly agree that most companies' impedance ratings are
- highly misleading, if not absurd. The only reasonable way of doing
- it would be to make a graph of the magnitude of the impedance
- vs. frequency, and a similar of phase angle vs. frequency.
- You find such measurements in most serious HIFI-magazines,
- when they are testing a loudspeaker.
- (The impedance IS a complex number. The phase angle has a great
- influence on the amount of work your amplifier has to do. When
- current and voltage are out of phase only a fraction of the power
- is actually converted into acoustic energy by the loudspeaker and
- therefore the amplifier has to work harder.)
-
- Rasmus Munk Larsen
- AArhus
- Denmark
- Europe
-