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i don't know that i follow your last statement, in comparing with the source?
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I just meant different source material. Listening to the same material if comparing since different CD's or DVD's would require different power.
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that doesn't matter so much... if you are talking about a DVD-A or a SACD, those are mutichannel sources. so that would make things change. but going specifically from a 2 channel CD to a 2 channel DVD. the DVD will hold more information, so should "sound" better because there is more data, so the digital to analog converters in your receiver can make the digital signal much more closely resemble an analog signal.
This is why people still like records, its an analog source, to and analog output... at the end of the day, our eyes and ears work in an analog environment, so anything digital HAS to be converted to analog for the human body to be able to interoperate it..
i don't know if this explanation helps any or not. hopefully it does.
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The Denon rating is for 2 channels? If you are running a 7.1, the power to the fronts is reduced due to all the speakers, correct? So the Emotiva XPA-3 would be increasing more comparing 7 speakers, correct? I don't think that matters in that, whether you use two speakers or 8 speakers to generate 115db peaks, it will take the same number (or very close to) of watts.
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Free, welcome. As you probably have now gathered, no, the power to the fronts isn't necessarily reduced. All channels being driven simultaneously at full power is a laboratory test, but essentially never happens in listening at home and a rating based on all channels is rather unrealistic. Typically one or two channels are using much more power than the others, even if all are in operation.
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Fred, keep in mind that if you have two speakers instead of one(four instead of two, etc.)playing the same sound, to keep the overall sound at the same dB level, the power used by each speaker would be reduced by half.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdHf6yozycthis is actually a really good lecture on how an amplifyer works, im about 30min though it now, while i get ready for tomorrow.... If you watch this whole lecture you should be good to go for amp design/operation.....
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Fred, keep in mind that if you have two speakers instead of one(four instead of two, etc.)playing the same sound, to keep the overall sound at the same dB level, the power used by each speaker would be reduced by half. I think that is what I was trying to say.
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How about multi channel stereo? I personally don't like it, so was never all the curious to how you get 7 channel stereo out of 2 channel, but if you wanted to really test a multi channel amp out, would this function do it? Now that I'm thinking about it, how does this multi channel stereo funtion work?
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I think multi-channel stereo just sends the left signal to all the left speakers and the right signal to all the right speakers, then mixes the signal for the center. It's probably the toughest mode on a multi-channel receiver, I'm guessing.
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