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Rated and Program Power?

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Topic: Rated and Program Power?

Posted By: luckydevil
Subject: Rated and Program Power?
Date Posted: August 22, 2006 at 12:35 PM

I was looking at the specs for a driver and it listed "Rated Power" and "Program Power."

Are these recommended power and max power respectively, or do they mean something else?

I already did a search and couldn't find anything in Google.

Thanks guys.



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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: August 22, 2006 at 5:39 PM

I think "program" power is another name for what used to be called "music" power, but there's so many names for power that don't mean much of anything, I'm not sure.  Here's what Rod Elliot says about power ratings:

https://sound.westhost.com/power.htm



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