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Dinosaur
Originally Posted by
rth_discos
My Maui 5s are about the least powered speakers I've seen (200w rms) yet they pack a punch that I feel would out perform cheaper, higher wattage speakers!
Correctamundo. Baffles me too.
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A Watt, unit of power in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one joule of work performed per second, or to 1/746horsepower.
So, all I need now is 746 horses.
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Resident Antagonist
Originally Posted by
rth_discos
And sound quality can't be measured in watts or dB.
Try telling that to the absolute 'tard in Currys a few years ago when I went there to buy a new surround sound system for my living room.
"1,000 Watts of sound - that means the quality is amazing!"
"You measure sound quality in Watts?"
"Well, obviously you won't use all 1,000 in your living room. You'll only use about half of that, and it's the extra headroom that gives you the best sound quality."
"So it's the Watts I'm not using that gives me the sound quality?"
"Exactly."
For the next ten minutes, I watched his eyes glaze over as I gave the boy an education.
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Originally Posted by
Benny Smyth
Try telling that to the absolute 'tard in Currys a few years ago when I went there to buy a new surround sound system for my living room.
"1,000 Watts of sound - that means the quality is amazing!"
"You measure sound quality in Watts?"
"Well, obviously you won't use all 1,000 in your living room. You'll only use about half of that, and it's the extra headroom that gives you the best sound quality."
"So it's the Watts I'm not using that gives me the sound quality?"
"Exactly."
For the next ten minutes, I watched his eyes glaze over as I gave the boy an education.
Haha.
My favourite one used to be 'in digital quality". What, you mean it's aliased, pixellated crap?
I try to avoid those sheds of ignorami whenever possible. I can't stand idly by when customers are being lied to so badly.
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Web Guru
Originally Posted by
Benny Smyth
Try telling that to the absolute 'tard in Currys a few years ago when I went there to buy a new surround sound system for my living room.
"1,000 Watts of sound - that means the quality is amazing!"
"You measure sound quality in Watts?"
"Well, obviously you won't use all 1,000 in your living room. You'll only use about half of that, and it's the extra headroom that gives you the best sound quality."
"So it's the Watts I'm not using that gives me the sound quality?"
"Exactly."
For the next ten minutes, I watched his eyes glaze over as I gave the boy an education.
Reminds me of a conversation I had in John Lewis to the Sonos rep there just a few weeks ago. In trying to get my overall lag down in online gaming (on my PS4), I'm replacing things one by one to get rid of internet lag, display lag and controller lag. Which so far has meant replacing my Virgin Media supplied router with a proper one, and replacing my very old TV with a new one (reducing display lag from about 75ms to 12ms).
Anyway, I was looking at the Sonos Playbase or Playbar and wondering how much sound delay the whole Sonos thing introduces. For Sonos to do it's multiroom thing over it's own mesh network perfectly synced, it has to introduce a delay. When watching TV the workaround is to go into the TV's settings and add a display delay until the picture matches the sound coming from the Sonos kit - most newer TVs will let you do this. I knew this, and so did the Sonos rep, but my question was how much delay it introduced. I was also aware that I would probably have to do without the Sonos sound output when gaming and stick with the TV's, as realistically any amount of delay would be unacceptable.
Anyway, the rep's answer was "probably about half a second".
"Half a second?" I asked, kinda shocked.
"Yes, half a second. You're not going to notice that in gaming, which type of games do you play?"
"First Person Shooters."
"Yep, half a second will be fine. You won't notice that."
"So, why have I just spent £1200 over there to shave 60ms (6 / 100ths of a second) from my setup?"
Half a second! I could kill 5 people in that time
Anyway, I've since found out through my own research that a Playbar or Playbase introduces around 30ms of display, not half a second. But even that's no good
Anyway, sorry for the off-topic post - carry on!
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Half a second?! HALF A SECOND?!
Anyway 30ms is actually pretty good for anything that streams, especially if they're compressing it.
Gotta love sales guys dontcha?
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I have a pair of Yamaha wooden 12 inch Speakers DSR12 and a Pair of Plastic DXR15's
I would be happy to put my 12's up against any other system, The sound quality is amazing, and they are plenty loud enough for most of the work I do. In the four years or so that I have had them I have NEVER been asked to turn them up! and regularly have comments on how good they sound.
Skytec do a 1000w Speaker would I buy one NO, But if my Yamahas ever give up the ghost I would be happy to spend the Money to buy some more!
We can get obsessed with power output etc but at the end of the day the ONLY way to rate a speaker is to Hear it.
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