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Feb 25

Important considerations for your 70-volt speaker + sub install

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As our AC.SUB is an excellent choice for such 70-volt installations, we thought you should know why 70-volt subs are more complex than you might think. There are few downsides to a 70-volt audio system when you’re talking about installing lots of speakers, particularly using long wiring runs. But there is one issue of concern when you’re talking about high performance (or high... Read More »

Sep 04

Wire losses in audio systems

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As you're probably aware, connect a speaker to an amplifier with wires and you're going to have power losses. Resistance due to wire length and gauge are the primary problems and there is no shortage of wire loss calculators available on the Internet. Note that we aren't talking about speaker impedance here (4 Ohm, 8 Ohm, etc.) nor are we talking about series or parallel connection methods.... Read More »