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Nice post Salectric,

What NO one has brought up here, yet it is cogent, is that it is easier to build a great sounding low power amplifier, than a great sounding high power amplifier.

The more devices you parallel, to get high power, the less transparent and more mismatched the performance.

So, when you use a low sensitivity speaker with a high powered amplifier, it becomes a compromise, (assuming one knows how to make, or acquire, a great-sounding low powered amp.)

Don't get me wrong, there are a few positively great sounding high powered solid state amps, but how many of us a) know which ones they are and b) can afford to buy them??

Jeff Medwin



Edits: 07/22/12

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