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- From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Subject: Re: power amps blowing tweeters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.092840.15353@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1993Jan19.143935.20811@sei.cmu.edu> <C14v52.6A9@world.std.com> <1993Jan21.153319.12834@sei.cmu.edu> <C183IH.M7D@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:28:40 EST
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- In article <C183IH.M7D@world.std.com>, Richard D Pierce writes:
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- |> In article <1993Jan21.153319.12834@sei.cmu.edu> Richard S D'Ippolito writes:
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- [chart omitted]
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- |> Well, ok, except for several facts. First, it's seldom a 20 kHz sine wave
- |> that clips an amplifier, it's more like stuff much lower and more complex,
- |> so that splatter is much denser and lower frequency then your table would
- |> have us believe. So while the table above is interesting in an academic
- |> sence and certainly correct only as far as it goes, it is a poor
- |> approximation of reality.
-
- It follows the assumptions made in the previous articles, including yours,
- where the starting point was 20KHz. I made no claims for the model and was
- just trying to help a fellow out to understand RMS.
-
-
- |> Secondly, you've made an assumption about how the impedance rises above 20
- |> kHz which is simply not correct. The standard model for voice coil
- |> impedance which consists of a single linear inductor in series with a
- |> single linear resistor is to simple to the point of being seriously flawed
- |> for just this kind of example (not your fault, the literature seldom gets
- |> it right also).
-
- Well, again, I was using the given assumptions. Having measured various
- speakers and worked with many electro-mechanical systems, I know that the
- models are more complex. It was not my intent to present a definitive
- treatise. For the record, here is one set I made on a 3-way system including
- crossover. I didn't have the time to repeat them beyond the crossover.
-
- freq Zmag
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- 1KHz 8.5 ohm
- 3 18
- 9 11
- 15 11
- 20 13
- 100 28
- 500 70
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- Please don't blame me for the gentleman's assumption of clean clipping,
- either. I already noted that.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Rich
-