suprisingly little power needed

[kipman725]

Well I have some midrange drivers (8ohm) (91.7 db SPL /1watt/1meter) and a relatively high end millimeter and was wondering what kind of power amplifier I would need for my triamped system. So setting my millimeter to record the peak values of ac waveforms I found that the highest measured peak value was only 16.80V (using peak capture mode). This was archived at volumes that caused a 30 odd room house made of over 1m thick walls of rubble filled stone and cocreate floors to be filled with the sound and with +12dB equalization to boost the bass response (that further increases the peak voltages) with some http://cloudkicker.uk.googlepages.com/ playing.

So in short basically the most extreme case in terms of peaks. This corresponds to an amplifier capable of 35.28W peaks. Considering the thermal power handling of my speakers is 90W so doing this test has saved me quite abit of money.