I like this definition of Embedding:
to make something an integral part of.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embedI have no idea where my individual equipment choices rate in the world of audiophile performance. I simply can't afford six figures for every element of my system to make it SOTA.
Now if others in the forum do have the kind of budget to spend >six figures on the main elements of their system, I sincerely congratulate you and your fiscal prowess (douglas_schroeder).
I have enjoyed being here in this forum, and read and researched earnestly, on how to integrate the elements of my system. Now I may not have done my embedding (mahgister) or integration of my system in my house quite the same as anyone else.
With my limited budget, and spousal approval, I have managed to find improvements incrementally as I've made my way. I do appreciate that most people in here have the social graces to include everybody, and allow all of us to contribute as we may. We all have different opinions, and I constantly see World's finest, and World's best this and that claimed in advertising. Maybe a reviewer somewhere has a pretty good idea, but has anyone heard every single high end equipment being developed and sold around the globe??
trevanian - I hope you've got a reasonable answer to your question? If a clean power amplifier is one that faithfully amplifies the original signal it is fed, without colouring it with noise, then I have an understanding of a clean sounding power amplifier.