LABORATORY TEST REPORT
Newport Test Labs measured the power output of the Audia Flight FLS10 at 225-watts continuous, both channels driven into 8 , just barely (+0.5dB) above Audia Flight’s specification of 200-watts at 20Hz and 1kHz. At 20kHz, the FLS10 delivered 215-watts for only a few seconds, after which protection circuitry cut in and put the amplifier into stand-by mode, with the front panel read-out showing the word ‘Over-voltage’. This happened every time the lab tried to make measurements at 20kHz. (When reproducing music, no amplifier—no matter how powerful— would ever be required to deliver 200-watts at 20kHz, and there’s no tweeter—or high-frequency compression driver—that could take this level of power anyway.)
When the amplifier was driving 4 loads with both channels driven, the amplifier delivered a continuous rating of 400-watts per channel, again a little bit higher than its specification, which was obviously derived using the amplifier’s maximum output at 20Hz, where measured the specified 380-watts per channel. Although you can see ‘400-watts’ as the output in the tabulated figures as being the power output at 20kHz, this
