But you're NEVER using 200W!
Of course, we're in agreement here...
In order to drive our M80's to 80 db's we only need about 1 watt of power. This is what has been explained to me on here, I'm not educated in the math that gives us this figure, so I'm just repeating what I've read. So using the 'water' model from the thread in the 'Technical Questions' forum, I'm picturing the faucet turned on just enough to let 1 watt flow down the pipe to my speaker. Which creates 80db's worth of output, so most people won't be opening that faucet (volume knob) much further than that.
However, if you turn the volume knob on your reciever up 100%, then the faucet is wide open, so if it's a 200 watt amp, then wouldn't there be 200 watts worth of power flowing through the pipe to the speaker?
If not then how could they call it a 200 watt amp?
