The actual power requirement of an active loudspeaker during playback of music has not received much attention in the literature. This is probably because no single and simple solution exists and because a complete system knowledge from input voltage to output sound pressure level is required. There are, however, many advantages that could be harvested from such knowledge like size, cost, and efficiency improvements. In this paper a recently proposed power requirement model for active loudspeakers is experimentally validated and the model is expanded to include the closed and vented type enclosures in addition to the main loudspeaker non-linearities.

Authors: Schneider, Henrik; Madsen, Anders N.; Bjerregaard, Ruben; Knott, Arnold; Andersen, Michael A. E.
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
AES Convention: 138 (May 2015) Paper Number: 9318
Publication Date: May 6, 2015
Subject: Transducers

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