Just a quck q please

when people talk about a 10k rig, are they talking

a) peak power rating or rms ?

b) of the speaker handling or max amp output

c) something totaly different redface.gif

cheers

They should really be talking about the size of the amplifiers which are powering the speakers. If you have 10k of speakers but 5k of amps its only a 5k rig.

You should really have bigger amps than your speakers 2 as easy to pop speakers by underpowering them but clipping your amps.
rms is 0.707 and will be lower than peak.
Rms is best test with white noise over a certain time period, say 100 hours. then Spl @ 1m = ? Rms over 100 hours.
SPL spound pressure level