Think you have 1000 watt woofers?...No...actually you most likely don't. This video explains in basic term how speaker wattage ratings are determined and how those ratings can help you in your audio equipment purchase.
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I really liked this approach to instructing, but feel the RMS description was unnecessarily misleading (I'm sure Gary is aware of the more accurate explanation). I am not a speaker expert but an engineer with some acoustics studies, and RMS is a term used to quantify sinusoidal/AC oscillations, in that sense it does not mean an average of various sounds played (as described here) but a way of indicating the average intensity of the AC/sinusoidal wave (i.e not the trough or the peak). It may well be that manufacturers then use 24 hrs of various music to determine it, but the reason it sits down around 2/3 of peak is pure and simply because it's averaging a sine wave.
yes I am looking at a sound pro Bluetooth speaker nds-1232 it says that it has 3000 watts and that is all nothing about rms, ohms, program, that is all as far as numbers with a 12" woofer and1.5" tweeter is there any way to find more information that can help me out thanks in advance
1" voice coil ~ 100W continuous. Learn new thing today although I already knew V (continuous,) V (rms), V (peak). It is not feasible to bench test an existing speaker to test their max, as that will blown the driver. Using the voice coil sounds like a good estimate
If I have 2 speakers and each are DUAL 4 ohm voice coil speakers rated at 1000 watts for each speaker for a total of 2000 watt capability and I wire them together in series to make them 8 ohms, does the wattage rating now change along with the ohms changing?
Pretty much any speaker you can think of has a wattage rating. As long as you have the actual part number of the woofer, you should be able to find some kind of information on Google. But you can gauge an approximate by rule of thumb on the diameter of the voice coil figuring 100 watts per inch.
