What does 400watts total music power mean on speaker?

Question

What does 400watts total music power mean on speaker?

Answer 1

it means that is the maximum wattage it can accept without damage

Answer 2

total music power - peak music power... or whatever they want to call is a way to mislead buyers.

Speakers should be rated (as stated before) in RMS - route mean squared.. this gives a kinda average of performance and is the only genuine way to rate a speaker.

Answer 3

It means it's, at best, a 100W rms speaker.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It means that the speaker is of c**p quality.  Numbers such as those are bull and designed to mislead buyers.  The ONLY number that has any meaning to it is the RMS value and even then, most of the time its given at the point at which the speaker is about to self destruct.  The test frequency is usually 1KHz.  Some manufacturers rate there speakers in RMS power using pink noise (20Hz-20KHz) which is much more accurate.  As a previous poster said, you would probably be lucky if those speakers are capable of 40-50 watts of real power RMS.

Answer 6

400 watts equates to DEAFNESS

Answer 7

Absolutely nothing! Total Music Power is one of these 'think-of-a-number-and-double-it' deals that has no actual measured meaning at all. The only true, universally accepted power rating is Watts RMS. On a domestic £300-£500 home theatre kit, you'd be lucky if the true Wattage of the speaker is more than 40-50.