Here's a dumb question. But when reading a test of an amp, the tester stated that the amp made "x" Watts at 4 ohm reactive load and "y" watts at 4 ohm resistive load. What's the difference between the two and is there any way to have a reactive setup with a subwoofer? it seems that the reactive load puts out about 100 more watts than the resistive.
I was told that if one measured the impedance rise in correlation to the respective voltage, that the reactive load would show less power. The main issue is that many assume that the load remains 4 ohms when measuring output on the reactive load when the voltage output increases, and many times that is just not the case.
Of course, that is the layman's way it was explained to me! I am glad that I have dummy loads now to test my amplifiers because I won't annoy my neighbors at 2 am with amplifier testing.
So that means that you will only see reactive loads during amp testing? and not in real world scenarios? That's a bummer, cause it would be cool to have the extra 100W.
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