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In Reply to: that's a very different question than the one you originally asked posted by mhardy6647 on February 27, 2007 at 18:00:10:
mrh brings up the question of low level signal quality. I first grasped that concept back in the 70s when I used an AR integrated amp with my first pair of Advents. The amp sounded fine at high levels, but resolution went out the window at low levels.While Advents can benefit from short instantaneous bursts of high power with dynamic musical content (Rite of Spring, etc), they require very little power on an average basis. Most of the time, my 400 watt Threshold amp plays music at reasonable levels below 2 watts. At that power, it runs pure class A and benefits from having has no protection circuitry and a large power supply. In my older age (50), I have come to appreciate the qualities of low level resolution (which my main system does even better).
More power is good, but not all powerful amps sound the same where they spend the most time - sub watt output levels.
rw
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