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Froth at the mouth all you want. RMS is also used to measure acceleration in vibration testing, both swept sine and random. And that is not the only other unit where it is applied.

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I was talking about electronics. RMS values can be usefully calculated for many measurements. I believe standard deviation is an RMS value.

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RMS is also used to measure the surface "fineness" of machined parts.

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And quite a bit of electronics is vibration tested, not just military stuff.

RMS is a specific mathematical concept, with many useful applications. Standard deviation measures something else entirely (second moment of the distribution; skew and kurtosis measure the third and fourth moments respectively), and is only in some ways similar to RMS.

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So, in the final analysis, RMS rally means "Really Means S*it".

Actually, how could an amp have higher power without testing higher wirh th eir ill defined standard ? How could we better quantify this ? If they all obey the same rules, the figure is valid.

Fac is, Ohifio came about and blew all the really good s*it out the door. L ouder, and the USians ate it up. LOUD IS BETTER say the masses.

So dollars per decibel became the law of the land, and the consumer voted f or it.

Know what pisses me off ? I missed out on a set of KEF 103.5s for $25 the o ther day. Man, you need a Lear jet to get some of these deals Those KEFs ar e plagiued with crossover problems, and I am pretty sure it is bad connecti ons, because what else will stop the woofer from working. Coil unwound itse lf ? Not hardly, not even softly.