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Speaker efficiency? [message #16858] Sat, 21 August 2004 07:12 Go to previous message
wunhuanglo is currently offline  wunhuanglo
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Suppose somebody said that their mid-woofer achieved "106dB sensitivity at 80Hz", which someone recently did.

I guess I'd make the assumption that the reference was 1 watt input, rather than gaming the sub-8 ohm impedence vs. 2.83V thing, but you never know.

I read somewhere that 109dB SPL is one equivalent to 1 (acoustic) watt.

If the claim above were true, that would seem indicate a conversion efficiency of over 97%. That seems like a much higher efficiency than I would have thought was possible.

Am I looking at this correctly?

 
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