Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Measuring power going to speakers?

Wid: that is not necessarily true. You are forgetting about the speaker's efficiency. In theory, a 4 ohm speaker could be "louder" than a 8 ohm speaker for the same input power.

Jake: I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say. But, the power distribution between the fronts, rears, rear surrounds is most probably NOT equal for any music composition. This may be even more profound when signal processing is used. I have been looking for relative distribution parameters but haven't found any. The bottom line is that it is highly unlikely that all of your channels would require either maximum peak or average power at the same time.