DC Power supply question...duh...

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Mon Jul 5 10:32:15 1999

><A lot of Taiwanese jive, is what it boils down to. After playing around wi
><a pair of "200W" speakers today, I'd estimate about 2.5W RMS per channel.
><
><> I don't own any such speakers, or indeed, a soundcard. Never seen the nee
><for > > one...
>
>For laughs I took a pair of the so called 60W per speakers, opened them
>and put them on a 50w dummyload and measured them. They did 12W RMS at

Fry me in butter if I'm wrong, but I think the FTC (Federal Trade
Commission, the agency in the USA that enforces truth in advertising etc.)
is pretty sick of these 500 watt wall wart powered speakers and plans to
apply the same requirements on powered speakers as they do now for
amplifiers.
Received on Mon Jul 05 1999 - 10:32:15 BST