Power handling question

Nightfall
Nightfall Posts: 10,086
edited September 2013 in Vintage Speakers
Something I don't understand about how many watts the vintage Polks can take. For example:

Monitor 5 125 watts
Monitor 7 150 watts

How does a bigger PR equate to the same drivers taking an extra 25 watts?

Monitor 10 250 watts
RTA12's 500 watts

How can the exact same drivers take an extra 250 watts?
afterburnt wrote: »
They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited September 2013
    The larger cabinet with require the drivers to command more air, thus more power before they are over driven.
    Jake
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  • Schurkey
    Schurkey Posts: 2,101
    edited September 2013
    ...coupled to the fact that the amount of power they can take depends greatly on the spectrum of frequencies in the source material.

    In short, "power handling" of speakers is a wild guess, not entirely unlike how engines are rated for horsepower...some use the "old, pre-1971" SAE specification, some use the 1972 SAE spec, some use the very-new 2009 (???) SAE specification...but most aftermarket builds don't follow SAE protocols at all. The joke was that one engine had 375 horsepower, measured at the flywheel, while another engine had 425 horsepower...measured at the sales brochure.
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