[LAU] monitor specifications
david
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Jan 8 10:31:51 UTC 2012
On 01/08/2012 12:17 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 04:04:38AM +0000, gnome at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that you actually only need .1 watt RMS for a
>> sound to be audible ... but could be wrong on that.
>
> Much less. If you have a 100% efficient speaker radiating equally in
> all directions then 1 watt will produce an SPL of 109 dB at 1 meter
> distance.
>
> Most speakers have very low efficiency. Assume 1%, that still means
> 89 dB at 1 meter.
Thanks. Wow!
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