Re:Never hose out a Honda Element
by Bancakes on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:05AM
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What is a high-end sound system anyways? I've always wondered, and now I ask. How do you measure it - just frequency response and power draw?
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> How do you measure it - just frequency response and power draw?
Same way you measure any other high end consumer good: price
I submit that a better measure of high end audio equipment is weight.
Top end gear is HEAVY.
To be specific, top end gear has heavy torroidal inductors and transformers to keep the current flowing.
Not just that - high end speakers are heavy because of the need to use thick, stiff and dense materials to eliminate resonance.
Not for anything portable.
Re:Never hose out a Honda Element
by grepfru_it on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:22AM
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The noise floor of a car is incredibly high, such that it’s probably not a high quality system, it’s just a loud system.
One of the metric I know is sensitivity - how many dB per watts can a speaker produce. Logic is that at lower watts amp has less distortion. For best results buy an amp that's like 10x smaller than required, tho you will waste tons of power (which then goes into class A/B/C/D/E amps...)