Denne side beskriver lige nøjagtig problematikken omkring elektrostater og rørforstærkere:
http://sanderssoundsystems.com/technical-white-papers/172-tu bes-vs-transistors
"This impedance problem is relatively minor when dealing with conventional, magnetic speakers. But an electrostatic speaker is an entirely different
animal. An ESL is a capacitor, not a resistor like a magnetic speaker. The impedance of a capacitor is inversely proportional to frequency. Therefore
the impedance of an ESL typically varies from around 150 ohms in the midrange to about 1 ohm at 20 KHz.
A tube amp will be able to drive the high impedance frequency bandwidth (the midrange and lower highs) of an ESL with linear frequency response.
However, at higher frequencies, the impedance of the ESL will drop below the impedance of the amplifier and the amp will then roll off the highs to
some degree depending on the exact impedance mismatch and the frequencies involved.
This impedance mismatch problem can be minimized with both types of speakers by using a lower impedance tap on the tube amp's output
transformer. For example if you use the 4 ohm tap with 8 ohm speakers, you will probably not encounter any impedance mismatch, so the system
would then have linear frequency response.
Using the 4 ohm tap with ESLs will help, although it will still not eliminate all the high frequency impedance mismatch because the speaker's high
frequency impedance will fall below 4 ohms. But probably only the top octave or two will be affected, which is hard to hear so the roll off may not be
noticed subjectively.
But there is a problem when you use a lower impedance tap -- the drive voltage drops. Or to put it another way, the amplifier's output voltage is
directly proportional to its output impedance.
Understand that the power available from an amplifier is a function of its output voltage. Ohm's Law is very simple and states that, "One volt will
drive one amp through one ohm." With this simple concept, you can calculate virtually anything having to do with electronics as you will soon see."
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