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In Reply to: RE: What is Headroom and how can it be described? posted by pictureguy on June 26, 2012 at 10:15:27:
has to do with amplifiers. The more 'headroom' the more the amp tends towards class B operation. IOW, class A amps have 0 db of headroom.
The spec is intended to make amps that are not class A look better. But the truth is the higher numbers don't translate to better audio quality.
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