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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Some comments about PP power rating.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/1/2015

I think people generally do not understand what PP power rating is. Regarding a total power VA that a given unit can produces there is another and probably the most valuable aspect: how much power of the total PP power makes sense to use. In my experiments I concluded that the best sonic results I got from PP3000 when I load it with 40%-60%. I did not make those experiments with PP3000+ . Also, it would be worth to note that I use class A power amps with input choke filtration. So, based upon what I have seen If I consider a PP then I would get the unit that make my enter playback to run at max 50% load. So, a 300W unit would be good for 1500W playback. It is not that that 3000W unit would not work with 2500W load but I got less intersting sound. A warning however. I Used 1600W of my playback load and 1000W of resistive complimentary load. So, with reactive load the result might be different...

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