RE: Whole House Audio

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Genesis are not mass market amps ... their ratings are very conservative -
much like Mission or Naim but in the car audio world. I'd happily pit a
Genesis in car amp against most of the semi-decent home amps on the market
and they'd do well.

Unfortunately running an amp from 12v is pretty inefficient ... I used to
have an Orion 2100HCCA that we tested once at 1,280w RMS bridged into a
2ohm
load without clipping and at that it was drawing slightly less that 220Amps
at 13.8v.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 June 2001 19:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Whole House Audio
>
>
> Where does the other 150W go?
>
> 50% efficiency is absolutely terrible !
>
> Be aware that car amplifiers seldom quote the RMS rating and they
> never qute
> the distortion figures at the output they claim. The true power
> rating at an
> acceptable distortion level is often very low.
>
> Keith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Hoye [mailto:james.hoye@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 June 2001 16:51
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Whole House Audio
> >
> >
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> > > If it's just background type music and not ear splitting
> volumes that's
> > > needed then you can get in-car amplifiers quite cheaply.
> >
> > I still have a Genesis SM60 car amplifier which offers 2 channels
of 30w
> > each.  Also got an SM100 which offers (you guessed it) 50w per
channel.
> >
> > In reality, they were conservatively rated, and the SM60 would
> > output nearer
> > 45w per channel and the SM100 nearer 75w (4 ohm loads).
> >
> > Bridge the channels (2 ohm), and the things would drive crazy
> loads.  Only
> > problem is that for say 150w RMS you need at least a 300w
> supply.  300w @
> > 12v = 25A.
> >
> > Lent the SM100 to my brother-in-law to drive his 15" (or
might be 18")
> > homemade sub in briged mode - provided he could build a power
> supply meaty
> > enough!!!
> >
> > James H
> >
> >
> >
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