Plate Amp recommendation, please

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Re: UK sub

bond said:
Brian

Do you ship to the UK ? I'm looking for someone that can supply a driver and amp fro a sub project I'm doing, 50L sealed enclosure.

For ease of shipping I want to be able to order both from the same place.

cheers

Bond
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Brian just wondered if you saw my last post ?
 
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xstephanx said:
And once you add in all the protection circuts, and the soft clipping feature AND the better low pass, its starting to look like a great deal! Besides, if you can honestly tell 10 watts difference with your ear(at that power level) then you are my hero!
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This is another misconception -- advantage of soft-clipping. Subwoofers do not need soft clipping. In the old days, clipping was scary because it sent high frequency clipping signals to tweeters and fried them. That was why people came up with soft-clipping. Subwoofers automatically attenuates frequency above 100hz (thanks to the high voice coil inductance), including the clipping noise. Most people cannot hear the clipping distortion. Subwoofer amps these days do not have clipping indicator light. If they do, we will be surprised to see how often we push subwoofer amplifiers into clipping, without knowing it.

Some digital amplifers cannot survive without soft clipping circuit because the circuit is to protect those amplifiers, not the subwoofers they drives.

Another disadvantage of the soft-clipping circuit is that it degrades the sound because the circuit sits on the signal path and alters the signal.

Brian

Rythmik Audio
 
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