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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 57217" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: A few questions on Specs and equations.RMS is continuous/thermal wattagePeak is what it can physically handleIn most cases, peak is significantly more than 6dB higher than the continuous rated wattage, depending on passband and signal type. In most cases, you won&#039;t be able to calculate peak - it will be dependent on the exact box/driver configuration. You could measure distortion to determine this, or blow up a few woofers?As far as continuous, there is obviously no way the UCS1 handles 1200 watts continuous. Since I know that driver is very similar to a LAB15, it probably is rated at 600. And I almost always take off 3dB for the continuous spec just to be safe; it usually doesn&#039;t affect peak output.I hope my stream-of-consciousness post made sense. Like Ivan is going to say, &quot;at what frequency&quot; or &quot;it&#039;s never so simple&quot;...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 57217, member: 34"] Re: A few questions on Specs and equations. RMS is continuous/thermal wattage Peak is what it can physically handle In most cases, peak is significantly more than 6dB higher than the continuous rated wattage, depending on passband and signal type. In most cases, you won't be able to calculate peak - it will be dependent on the exact box/driver configuration. You could measure distortion to determine this, or blow up a few woofers? As far as continuous, there is obviously no way the UCS1 handles 1200 watts continuous. Since I know that driver is very similar to a LAB15, it probably is rated at 600. And I almost always take off 3dB for the continuous spec just to be safe; it usually doesn't affect peak output. I hope my stream-of-consciousness post made sense. Like Ivan is going to say, "at what frequency" or "it's never so simple"... [/QUOTE]

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