Wylie_Tunes
Well-Known Member
@carbo
Speaker surface area is like engine displacement as the saying goes, there is no replacement for displacement. Lets break this down.
You have to double the wattage to a speaker, in order to make an audible difference. You have to 10X the wattage, in order to produce the twice the output to a single woofer. So in your scenario, you would have had to go from 250 to 500, in order to hear the a difference from your original single woofer. To make it twice a loud, you would have had to jump to....well, you get the drift. Your woofer would never handle that amount of wattage.
In your original setup, you had one (1) 10" woofer driven by 250W. You now have two (2) 10" woofers driven by a total of 330W. The thing is, the two woofers are now dividing that 330, for a net of 165W each. In reality, that a drop of about 35% to the original woofer. That would not equate to an increase in output.
So, we are back to the added surface area. With the 2nd 10" woofer, you now have 2x the air moving as before. This is an increase that you can never get by increasing amp wattage.
Hope this makes sense.
Speaker surface area is like engine displacement as the saying goes, there is no replacement for displacement. Lets break this down.
You have to double the wattage to a speaker, in order to make an audible difference. You have to 10X the wattage, in order to produce the twice the output to a single woofer. So in your scenario, you would have had to go from 250 to 500, in order to hear the a difference from your original single woofer. To make it twice a loud, you would have had to jump to....well, you get the drift. Your woofer would never handle that amount of wattage.
In your original setup, you had one (1) 10" woofer driven by 250W. You now have two (2) 10" woofers driven by a total of 330W. The thing is, the two woofers are now dividing that 330, for a net of 165W each. In reality, that a drop of about 35% to the original woofer. That would not equate to an increase in output.
So, we are back to the added surface area. With the 2nd 10" woofer, you now have 2x the air moving as before. This is an increase that you can never get by increasing amp wattage.
Hope this makes sense.