In Reply to: How much power do you need? posted by PaulF70 on September 9, 2016 at 17:25:09:
.....since the top of the waveform is rounded it is both harder to hear, and harder to see on a scope. Your experiment would be much better with a solid state amp as these do flat top the waveform which will be both visually more easy to spot and much more audible.
For what it's worth, I use a 30 watt solid state amp part of the time with 89db sensitive 4-ohm speakers in quite a large room and very, very rarely hear clipping.
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