Why weak wattage?

[Downunderwonder]

8 hours ago, la bam said:

That's too loud / needless for home and just not practical for gigging and to be honest not much different in price. 

Horses for courses and you don’t send your highly trained trotter to the galllops.

 

Most of the gigs I have done in the last 10 years have been done with 200w'ers.

[Downunderwonder]

4 hours ago, TimR said:

I blame the "keeping up with the drummer" mindset. Even I have fallen into that trap in my post.

 

The drummer should be playing at the appropriate volume. Too many non-musical drummers playing at one volume. But that's another thread. 

A drummer that is a little OTT wouldn't be too much of a problem. When Sir Guitard has to OTT the drummer instead of telling drummer too cool his jets you got problems.

[Downunderwonder]

1 hour ago, la bam said:

It's no problem at all

 

Its not a dig at anything, just a genuine question.... Just light hearted. If it works for you, then great. 

 

Why build a weaker powered version of something that works well, and produce something that may not (in certain circumstances)? 

 

Why build a practice amp that is too loud for a house, (I'm all for more power and a volume knob) but not suitable for the majority of gigs? 

 

Its properly also to do with the YouTube over enthusiastic rave about anything presenters as well who help shift these to people as amazingly loud gigging amps, who then find out that they need something else.. 

Why? Because people that don't need to blow the doors off the joint buy them to use on gigs.

[Dan Dare]

2 hours ago, LawrenceH said:

I wish I could find a good lightweight 8" driver (or even 6") optimised for high power handling, low resonant frequency, medium Q and low sensitivity.

 

Have a look at Volt drivers. Nice, but not cheap, though.

[Norris]

1 hour ago, Downunderwonder said:

Most of the gigs I have done in the last 10 years have been done with 200w'ers.

Most of mine have been done with 500W but with the master volume turned down to 4 🤪

[TimR]

Sensitivity.

 

My 500W amp spends much of its time set at 3. If I adjust it to 2.5 its far too quiet, 3.5 too loud. 

 

I guess a 200W amp might give more range.