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Correlation between amplifier gain, sensitivity and how it sounds?

Posted by mitch2 (A) on June 11, 2016 at 14:54:27

Have any of you noticed a correlation between amplifier gain and/or sensitivity, and the general characteristics of how an amplifier sounds, or maybe the general way in which amplifiers with certain gain and/or sensitivity specifications handle things like dynamics?
I am asking about solid state amplifiers, or maybe hybrids with SS output stages.
I have several amplifiers here with gain between 26dB and 39dB, and sensitivity between 0.54Vrms and 1.5Vrms and I am curious whether I should be able to ascribe any particular sonic characteristics to their gain and sensitivity structure, or is those simply a point of interest with respect to how high the volume control needs to be turned up (i.e., how many volts they need to be fed) to achieve a certain volume level?

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