Sequoia said:Probably .... but with unspecified amplification involved, it isn't necessarily the case.
Hifi specs can very misleading. It depends exactly what they mean by that. My main hifi amps are rated at 150w into 8 ohms, and as monobloc amps, there are two of them. EACH has a 3.5KVA transformer. The big brother to these has two 2.5KVA transformers per mono amp, and if you want to drive those hard into tricky loads, household mains isn't adequate ..... let alone a single power point. They want supplies of the order of 400v at 15 amps to drive it.
Now, these are not your standard hifi amps, but it makes the point that even a single high-end amp is capable of drawing down substantial power requirements. On the other hand, many amp manufacturers use misleading claims (like PMPO measurements) to make their products seem, on a spec sheet, more powerful than they are.
Adam_151 is probably right. But if that amp is delivering proper power to hard-to-drive loads, well, .....
Haha Sequoia, just when I thouight it was all hunky dory you go & throw a spanner in the works.
Well, at the minute it isn't driving anything more than a set of Grado headphones. It's an old amp I've had for maybe the guts of 15 years or possibly longer, a Technics SU-A900mkII. I have a set of Mission speakers about the same age that aren't even connected but when they are up & running it's at low volumes, I never push them hard. I'm not sure if that makes any sense regarding the electrical point of view.
, all running off the two sockets in this room. Never had any problems (and I have line monitoring in place to tell me if anything bad happens).
