A Musically Appropriate Dynamic Headroom Test for Power Amplifiers

Mitchell PW. A Musically Appropriate Dynamic Headroom Test for Power Amplifiers. In: AES Convention 83. Audio Engineering Society; 1987. Paper 2504. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=4898

@inproceedings{Mitchell1987_4898,
  author = {Mitchell, Peter W.},
  title = {{A Musically Appropriate Dynamic Headroom Test for Power Amplifiers}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 83},
  note = {Paper 2504},
  year = {1987},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=4898}
}

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AB  - The EIA RS-490 (former IHF A-202) amplifier test standard includes a "dynamic headroom" test employing a 20-mS tone-burst. In an informal survey of musical recordings, power bursts were found with durations from a few milliseconds up to several hundred milliseconds, with an apparent clustering in the 80-200-mS range. Since the practical value of an amplifier depends on its ability to reproduce musical dynamics, a more useful power rating would be obtained by amending the dynamic headroom test to employ a 200-millisecond (or similar) tone-burst.
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