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In Reply to: RE: I disagree with your assessment posted by A.Wayne on December 2, 2014 at 08:41:51:
It is clear that you don't understand that the amp has two power supply ranges. A higher voltage/lower current mode and a lower voltage/higher current mode. In the low impedance mode it nearly doubles power from 4 to 2 ohms.
What JA didn't test is what happens going from 8 ohms to 4 ohms when the amp is in the 6 - 8 ohm mode. My guess is that it double but is no longer in Class A.
To reiterate; the design is Class A into 8 ohms in the 6-8 ohm mode and Class A into 4 ohms in the 1-6 ohm more. This is why it has the same power rating at both loads with the switch in power supply (Reread Stereophile you will see how it was tested).
What is also clear is that in the 1-6 ohm more the amp almost doubles in power from 4 to 2 ohms and also probably goes from Class A to Class AB into the lower impedances.
Let me ask you, how do you think its possible for an amp to have no increase in power from 8 to 4 ohms and then magically doubles going to 2 ohms??? Pretty bizzare unless you know that the amp has actually 2 ranges where the amp is kept in Class A for best sound.
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