enough watts to drive these speakers? Help?


Greetings all,

I've got a friend with 89db efficent speakers playing in a 12'x15'x8' bedroom. He's looking at getting a 8 or 10 watt, low powered SET amp and is concerned if his speakers will play "loud enough".
He usually listens to classical and jazz at "moderate" levels at the loudest.

I compute that he should be getting 95db using only 4watts and the room should give a little more, perhaps 2db.

Are my calculations correct?

Anyone else that has a similar setup and can comment if it's loud and dynamic enough?

Thanks and happy listening!
myraj

Showing 2 responses by fatparrot

Bombaywalla, wouldn't moving back from 1 meter to 2 meters result in a 3 dB loss, not a 6 dB loss?
Bombaywalla, I understand where you got the 6 dB figure (voltage), which can throw confusion into the mix, depending on whether we are talking about voltage, or power readings. But I thought that actual acoustic sound waves (spl) were a measure of POWER, and not voltage. The spl meter converts this to a reading which represents dB's of power not voltage. But I will do further research, since you now piqued my curiosity!