Just curious but how can you tell when your speakers are underpowered? Not that this applies to me now that I have my Arc

 

uh..the amp starts clipping before the speakers get to maximum volume

 

I think underpowering may be a subjective term, as in, if it can take more power that an amp doesn't have unclipped and it's not loud enough, then I'd call it underpowered.

Or.....if you have other system components that one set of speakers is unable to match because it needs more power (given the speakers can take more).

If you took it to be a speaker to be "underpowered" any time it could see more power and be fine, that would be a lot of speakers in a lot of applications. Most prolly.

I like amp headroom and also not needing to driver speakers to full potential.

 

Anyone else understand this?

 

If your speaker isn't loud enough for your tastes, could take more power, but your amp doesn't have it (without clipping), to me thats underpowering. Thats why it's a subjective term.

Or if you are running different amps to different speakers, and an amp doesn't put out enough power to one particular set of speakers to keep up with the rest of the system.

If you took "underpowering" a speaker to mean not giving it enough power as it can cleanly take, then many or most speakers would be being underpowered in most systems that we listen to. In other words....most systems you listen to will not have as much amplification as possible running to the speakers.



I like headroom, and not having to drive speakers to full potential.

Hope this is said more clearly. I went back and played with parts of the first and third pp and didn't reproofread the translation.....

 

Oh, and to the original poster, I send ya a few pics.

 

I hope you know I was only kidding. I understood it.

I am teh suk at teh typeing as well.

 

yeah i know, but going back and looking at it...welll, pretty horrific. Had to be corrected

 

Got the pics! Thanks