01-Sep-2020, 08:57
(01-Sep-2020, 07:00)thumb5 Wrote:(30-Aug-2020, 23:31)David A Wrote: This test doesn't prove that phase correction is being applied with SAM at 0%, only actual phase measurements of the speaker's output at 0% would do that, but I do think the above results give very strong grounds for believing that whatever SAM is doing at 0 % involves more than simply providing speaker protection and phase correction is the only other candidate we have to explain what else might be going on.
Actually there is another possibility: the computation (signal processing) required to implement SAM at 0% itself uses some additional power.
Undoubtedly the computation does require some power, but 25-30% of the power required to run the amp with SAM off?
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