> Joe, 2W on a 10% efficiency speaker will wake up from deads > even a deaf. Even a deaf guy who drank himself dead the night before ? > Usually 5Khz is enough even for vocal synthesis, so why you > need 15KHz in a clock ? It's actually Marcel who wants to be woken in style, and he did say he likes it loud One of my get-around-to-it-one-day is an alarm clock for my nephew. In the shape of sticks of dynamite with an old-fashioned clock, curly red/blue wire and an audio that goes BOOOOOM quite loudly Plus assorted "motivational" ;-) phrases if he still insists on lying in his pit Chip is not the cheesy lo-fi ISD, but a now-obsolete TMS IC that will do 15kHz -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist