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18 PRO-18 USER MANUAL REV A
CHAPTER 11 AVERAGE AND PEAK POWER.
There are many articles discussing peak vs. average power with lots of math
and other cures for insomnia. What I want to do is keep it simple.
Humans “hear” peak power not average power. Average power is taken
over time usually of a continuous, steady state sound. Consider a fire cracker.
We “hear” the explosion as it occurs, not averaged over time. If the sound
produced by the fire cracker were averaged over time, we would never hear it or
for that matter much anything else. Thus, when we play a guitar, we hear the
sound as it is being produced not averaged over time. So, when I specify the peak
power, this is the power level you will hear. The average is included considering a
1000 cycle tone being played continuously forever.