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RE: Magnepan 3.6r amp selection

What it is is peak headroom into 4 ohms, since the peaks will challenge the amp long before the average level will. The main caveat being that tubes overload more gracefully, so don't have to be as large as a solid state amp.

The problem is, people play music at different levels, and music of different types. A 1000 watt amp plays only twice as loud, subjectively, as a 100 watt amp, so you can see that only a small difference in listening preferences can make a huge difference in amp requirements. This leads to endless, and needless, debates, because there isn't one correct answer here. If you want to listen to Mahler at a bit below Row A levels or acoustical jazz at a bit more below natural levels, you're going to need a super amp. But 100 solid state watts will likely be fine for a Mozart symphony at natural levels from a middle-of-the-hall perspective.

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