How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you?

"an amp operating withing it’s specifications that is producing 100 W RMS at a given frequency will reach peak power in the same amount of time as a 1 W RMS amp will."

 

You missed the point. I said ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL. So the same amp, be it 1 watt or 100 watts, is used with both speakers.

Obviously a 100 watt amp will produce 1 watt (0.278 times the voltage) quicker than it will produce the full 100 watts.

I’m sorry, but your understanding of slew rate and how it applies to how an amp operates is simply incorrect. Slew rate describes how fast an amplifier is capable of changing, not how fast it is changing. It describes the maximum rate of change, not how how fast it is changing for a given input

The point is, slew rate has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency or how dynamic a speaker is or anything being discussed here. Your concept of slew rate is wrong. Sorry if you don’t get that.

@herman Would that be in Denver or NYC?

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about

"I’m sorry, but your understanding of slew rate and how it applies to how an amp operates is simply incorrect. Slew rate describes how fast an amplifier is capable of changing, not how fast it is changing. It describes the maximum rate of change, not how how fast it is changing for a given input."

I understand this.

So then, you are saying that slew rate has NO IMPACT on how a speaker sounds??? So then why do the "better amps" try to achieve higher slew rates, resulting in "squarer" square waves?  In fact, by your terms, why bother to even measure it?

https://www.audioholics.com/audio-amplifier/amplifier-slew-rate

The whole article flawed because it is based solely on the use of sine waves.  I don't know about you, but I listen to more than sine waves (and possibly flutes).

But square waves, sawtooth waves, and complex waves have "verticle" (i.e., instantaneous) rise times and this is where slew rate would come into play.

If you look into this a bit further you will discover that these other waves are combinations of sine waves, and there are no musical signals which have an instantaneous rise time. If you put any musical signal through a spectrum analyzer you will see it broken down into these various frequencies.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierSeries.html

As the article you dismiss states, once the slew rate of the amplifier is high enough that it can amplify the highest required frequencies without distorting them (it is not slew rate limited) then a higher slew rate does not matter.

I’ll leave it to you to dig in and educate yourself about this, since instead of trying to understand slew rate, it appears you are only interested in proving you were right despite the fact what you initially stated is undeniably incorrect.

I’m done with it. Good luck in your journey.