JezA;433956 Wrote: > All amplifiers clip, some less offensively than others. .
No they don't!. I've had many, many amps on a scope into an oil-cased dummy load producing a clean 1kHz sine wave at full rated power - and often beyond. No clipping in sight. Provided the input signal peaks do not exceed the stated overload threshold there is no reason for a modern power amp to clip up to max power into a stable speaker load. On older amps, the PSU would start to give way/sag as max power was approached - Sugdens being a case in point - they sagged very gracefully. Most valve amps and class A tranny's do this. Class AB tranny's (including mine) are less...graceful. Fortunately, I would be deaf by now if I listened to my system above 75/100 for very long :o) Anyway, whilst I agree that 200w is preferable to 20w in all cases, all I was trying to say was that 20w is adequate for many people in many situations. YMMV. Regards Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64680 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
