Yeah.
Car audio is responsible for the ability of speakers to handle highpower.
Right
Small drivers, that can handle higher power came about when higher power solid state amps became a viable option as opposed to the lower powered tube amps that came before that necessitated big, high efficiency drivers in big boxes.
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@onhwy61 Wrote:
True. Like the home speakers from the late 1940's early 1950's. See below: Mike https://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/home-speakers/1948-d1000.htm https://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/home-speakers/1952-c31.htm https://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/home-speakers/1957-paragon.htm
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My Musical Fidelity X-A1 has a separate toroidal power supply (its X-A2 bigger brother came with one as well). Not super high end but a very nice "tube-like" sounding SS amp from 20+ years ago. I just need a set of metric Allen wrenches and some thermal grease to get mine up and running again (fixed a broken lead on a wire wound resistor 15 years ago, but didn't have replacement thermal grease to use it long term - tool kit with the wrenches was stolen from my car). Thing is that placing the power supply @ a certain distance and "angle" from the main unit improved the SQ.
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Are the power supplies usually a lot larger than the analog piece of the equation when it comes to an amp?? Seems to me the amplifier is deserving of a separate power box and all the rational to not do it doesn’t make sense. The impact on sound could be huge if done properly. All the trouble to get everything right in the chain before the amplifier and then it hits an amplifier and for some reason a major shortfall in execution occurs. Power amps should be designed with a separate power box. Mono blocks are good because they have separate power supplies they just need to be separated it would be interesting to know how big these chassis would be. Mono blocks can be quite large how much of this is due to the power supply.
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