(14:59:10) DrForr: My Lambdas don't need mains power, but it *does* take speaker power from my Onkyo at about 50% volume.
(14:59:28) kismet: what ohmage, DrForr?
(14:59:36) joel: ohmage?
(14:59:37) kismet: those 16 or 8ohm?
(14:59:39) joel: omfgage
(14:59:49) joel: IMPEDANCE you tit
(15:00:08) kismet: joel, twit, speakers are rated in ohmage, not impedence.
(15:00:13) joel: uh
(15:00:15) mendel: uh
(15:00:16) kismet: headphones are no different
(15:00:30) joel: surely the input impedance (ie the load) of a speaker is measured in ohms?
(15:00:32) mendel: Impedance is AC "resistance", and both are measured in ohms
(15:00:38) joel: but that's not "ohmage" ?
(15:00:54) joel: right. and we feed loudspeakers AC current. and the load they  provide is measured in Ohms.
(15:00:55) ***kismet goes to look this back up, just to make sure.
(15:01:12) mendel: What's to look up? Speakers get AC. DC going to speakers doesn't do what you want. :)
(15:02:41) kismet: "The headphone impedance plot is a measure of the dynamic resistance in ohms"
(15:03:14) kismet: that's straight from http://www.headphone.com/technical/product-measurements/how-to-interpret-headphone-data/
(15:03:21) kismet: I'd assume they know what they're talking about
(15:03:22) mendel: kismet: Neither impedance nor resistance are specific to audio.
(15:03:30) mendel: kismet: Ohms are the unit. Just like you measure mass in grams, not grammage.
(15:03:50) kismet: so sue me over "ohmage"