Speakers in live sound

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Member Since: Apr 14, 2002

I recently heard that if I used a powered speaker rated at 300 watts, if I didn`t use at least half of the power it would make the sound quality poorer.
Does anybody know if this is true or not?

Thanks,
Mitch

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Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


May 29, 2002 11:40 pm

I have not heard that B4. It is also stated that you should run your moniter or reinforcement amp's at full throttle for the best sound, but I know I for one have never gone that route. Close but not to the top. Unless your talkin Marshal stack, then we crank it to 11.

Anyway, I guess you might not get all the tone possible, but I would think they would compenstate for that, as most people are not going to moniter at full throttle or even close to that.

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Since: Apr 05, 2002


May 30, 2002 01:48 am

I can not say that I am the guru on this subject, but I ran a DJ business for several years and I have done some sound reinforcement so I think I know a little. I think that it would be false to say that the sound quality would be poorer. In actuality it should improve the sound quality some because there would be less THD(or total harmonic distortion). If the amp is not high quality you may get some signal noise, interference and such, but most self powered speakers are shielded really well so this should not present a problem. I know that if I had speakers rated for a max of 500 watts or something that having a 1000 watt amp would be ideal because the power you send to it would be cleaner and less distorted so I would think that the same basic premise would apply here. But, that is only my opinion, and as I said, I am not the guru on the subject, but I would think you would get a more accurate response from you speakers because what you would be sending would be "cleaner."
Marc (da Sharc)

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Since: Jul 13, 2007


Jul 29, 2007 07:35 pm

I wouldn't say "poorer", just less dynamics

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