"Shut-down is not a problem with the active 1100. At 10 feet away, I can push the actives to 116dBC which is the absolute limit of my pre-amp and more than 10dBC above my ears giving out.

This brings up the matter of how close to the limit is the single channel that feeds a trio of HP woofers at that tremendous bass peak. I can say now that the 1000 still has a few volts it can go before it shuts down."

Regarding the above, I took more measurements today and did some listening to just the woofers and just the mids (independently). Yes, you can push these actives to 116dBC with a 1000-8 and 1000-2 (woofers) but don't expect it to be clean.

I took voltage measurements at the woofer channel outputs with and without the left and right woofers connected. At 0 on my pre-amp, I measured 27V open circuit and 25V with the woofer load. That means the 1000-2 is sagging under that load. That's not surprising given the power dumped into those woofers is in excess of the per channel spec. Now is that the only contributor to the distortion in the HP triplet? I don't know but the triplet doesn't look very physically distressed to me. When I get the 1500 on it, I will know better.

The mid-woofer is another interesting case. That doesn't sound too good either at the maximum gain of my pre-amp. I measure 29Vrms on the front mid and 45V on the rear. I have BGC set to FAR2; that's why the rear is so much higher than the front. If the mids are 6 Ohms, that's 280W into the front and 675W into the rear. I believe the first number but not the second so that brings into question the impedance magnitude of the mid.

As for the tweeter, I don't dare listen at 0. However, on open circuit, I measure 5V on the front and 13V on the rear. If the tweeter array is 4 Ohms, that's 12.5W on the front and 85W on the rear.

I need to put the above into context. On the actives, at 10 feet away in my 1800 cu.ft. living room which is open to the rest of the house, I listen at -33 and sometimes even less than that depending on the tune. That is very satisfying across the entire range including the bass which just pops! At that level, we are talking 1 Volt into the HP triplet. Compare that 1 Volt to the 27 Volts at full gain. The headroom is therefore huge.

Keep in mind my instruments are about as primitive as those used to operate on the Joker. LOL!

House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated