Speaker and amplifier tools

Free calculators for matching amplifiers to speakers, sizing speaker cable, working out impedance loads and predicting how loud a system will play. Every one shows its working.

Matching

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Amplifier & Speaker Matcher
Pick your speakers and we work out the power they need, check impedance safety, and rank every amplifier we cover.

Wiring

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Speaker Wire Gauge Calculator
How thick your speaker cable needs to be for the run length and impedance, and what you lose if it is too thin.
Speaker Impedance Calculator
Wire two or more speakers in series or parallel and see the load your amplifier actually sees.

Room & placement

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Speaker Placement Calculator
A plan view of your room: speaker spacing, wall distances, where the bass cancels and where the first reflection lands.
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Room Mode Calculator
The frequencies your room reinforces and cancels, where they pile up, and what to move first.

Level & power

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Subwoofer Crossover Calculator
Where to set the crossover between your speakers and a subwoofer, and which reason is driving the answer.

Level & power

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SPL & Amplifier Power Calculator
How loud a speaker plays for a given power at a given distance - or how many watts you need for a target level.

Why these show their working

Most audio calculators on the web give you a number and no way to check it. Several of them are quietly wrong — the two most common faults being forgetting that speaker cable carries current there and back, and treating a 2.83 V sensitivity rating as though it were dB per watt on a 4 ohm speaker, which understates the power needed by half.

Every tool here has a Show the working panel listing each term that went into the answer, and says plainly which numbers are physics and which are a judgement call. Where a figure is contested — how fast sound falls off in a real room, for instance — it is a control you can change rather than a constant we picked for you.

Is there a calculator you were looking for and did not find?
Tell us and we will build it. This is genuinely how the list gets decided.