Does Meridian state it can drive all 150watt amps simultaneously? No (not that I know of anyway).

Do they state how long they can sustain all 5 amps at 150watts? No (not that I know of).

There is also the response time. How quickly does that power need to be delivered? That's what the capacitors are for. But the faster the response the higher the instantaneous power required. But that does not make it all the way back to the AC lines.

The spec is what the AC line will see. Worst case. As an entire system. The Amp spec is what ONE amp can do.

There are a ton of variables between the input and output. Not just the efficiency of the power supply.

How much reserve is stored in the huge Toroidal transformer, how much is stored in those huge capacitors.

As pointed out above it would be VERY hard to get any where near the 950 watts. Yours ears would probably be bleeding before reaching 500 watts.

But also keep in mind that watt meters average over some time period. And it's hard to know what the peak load is over a shorter span of time and if that shorter span of time would even hit the AC line or be absorbed by the capacitors.

But I think the spec would be the safest spec to go with, with oodles of margin.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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