In Reply to: Efficiency and Sensitivity are not the same thing! posted by Ralph on May 8, 2017 at 10:49:19:
One should also keep in mind that all amps regardless of technology have greater distortion into 4 ohms, and so will sound harsher and less detailed.
That may be true for direct-coupled amps (I can't think of any exceptions). But many transformer coupled amps have the same or higher distortion from their 8 ohm taps into an 8 ohm load than from their 4 ohm taps into a 4 ohm load, at equal power. And it's not just some tube amps, the McIntosh solid state amps exhibit this behavior too.
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