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You are confusing a lot of things about amplifiers

You seem to be against the wall. I'll try one more time to see if you understand things:

First, human hearing is not particularly sensitive to dynamics, and this is established science that you are choosing to ignore. That is why it is dangerous to listen to headphones, and that is why you usually turn up the volume with a system that has low distortion.

Most people confuse dynamics with distortion, as you seem to be doing. Distortion gives an illusion of loudness and therefore of dynamics. More proof that unaided or uninformed listening is usually misleading.

Second, if you compare two amps of different power ratings knowing that you will make one of them clip your comparison is of little use. You should set equal loudness levels such that neither of the two amps will clip. In that case only a broken amp will sound 3db louder than the other one. This is again accepted science (rather basic) that you once again choose to ignore.

Clearly whoever said ignorance is bliss had never met people like yourself. LOL!


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