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Originally Posted by nater123
I am bit surprised that this has not come up yet, but the system is rated at ~ 1.5 KW. At peak usage that's 1.5KWh battery drained for every hour of usage. Now granted most people are not going to be using it at that level but deep bass (low frequency, long wavelengths) and gimmicks such as exciters are very physical unlike mids and highs, so take up a lot of power. Go to town with such systems on an ICE but losing 15-20 miles of EV range for listening to loud music (~1KW) for 5 hours on a road trip seems excessive. Thoughts?
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The system may be rated for that, but I doubt you will break even 100W before you lose your hearing. As a very unscientific example, take a very nice
Focal car woofer with a sensitivity of 91.5db, meaning 1W RMS will produce 91.5dB of sound. Let's say you turn it up to 94.5dB, well that would only need 2W RMS. At 100W RMS, you would be at an ear-splitting 114.5dB, enough to hit
OSHA's recommended daily limit of sound exposure in just 15 minutes.