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In Reply to: RE: How much power do you need? posted by megasat16 on September 9, 2016 at 19:50:38:
Yes, that Roger Sanders. The paper is on his site.
You will see regular clipping on a scope. Which is why he recommended this test. Now, as I said, tubes don't really clip all that hard though. And, as I said, it would seem that that fact - which he points out in the article - undermines it.
He's basically saying, "If you look at a scope, you'll realize you need tons of power, and thus solid-state amps." I think he's missing one thing and wrong on one thing:
- The necessary power levels he asserts are overstated - perhaps by as much as an order of magnitude
- If soft-clipping doesn't look bad on a scope *it may well not sound bad either*.
My 45 DHSET amps are actually probably not even hitting 1W, even on peaks, even at loud levels. Distortion is still quite low at that level and is, of course, almost entirely consonant second-harmonic.
This jives with my subjective observations that more powerful amps do not sound more dynamic - at the levels I listen at (which, again, I call "loud") - or less distorted. In fact, in almost all cases, just the opposite.
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