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Here's why amps can be more important than speaker

I was looking at B&W's site:
You will notice that speaker total harmonic distortion figures tend to be worse than those of amplifiers and it is reasonable to ask why amplifier designers bother to get down to levels of say 0.01% or lower if the speaker is so much worse. The reason is that most of a speaker's distortion is restricted to the lower-order harmonics, whereas amplifiers can readily generate higher-order harmonics that are much more objectionable.

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cdc
eldragon
707 posts
 
Cdc, i agree. Our speakers are much better than we are willing to believe.
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bluefin
111 posts
 
That's why some people like over-powered amp than under-powered your amp. The amp will be more in linear region if your power amp is capable of higher current and power than the speaker's demand. If under powered(you can call it bad match), even a good speaker can't perform. If having enough power or up, a good speaker is much better than bad ones.
paulwp
585 posts
 
No, the resulting output will be a combination of the fundamental plus the distortion components.
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
Hey folks,
How about gettin' some Studio 100 blown by some old Kenwood receiver huh?
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