Hate to tell you, not one single thing you said is right. But the one thing you did get right is the most critical, to buy high efficiency speakers. So you are absolved.
In other words, the ONE specification that matters is speaker sensitivity. Get that one right- which you did!- and you can forget all the others. Any amp of any power will be fine, so you can forget all about watts and focus on the one thing left that matters: sound quality.
You drew the right conclusion but for all the wrong reasons. It is not that the amp gets tp "breathe" you can prove this with a glass jar, no amp ever made will suffocate and die. That's a joke, son. The reason those lower power amps sound better is simple. Anyone building anything to a price point has to make decisions where to put the money. Every dollar budgeted to high power is a dollar not budgeted to sound quality. It really is that simple.
Forget all specification. I am not kidding! Read reviewer and actual user comments. Find ones that describe the kind of sound you want and that is your amp. It really is that simple.
In other words, the ONE specification that matters is speaker sensitivity. Get that one right- which you did!- and you can forget all the others. Any amp of any power will be fine, so you can forget all about watts and focus on the one thing left that matters: sound quality.
You drew the right conclusion but for all the wrong reasons. It is not that the amp gets tp "breathe" you can prove this with a glass jar, no amp ever made will suffocate and die. That's a joke, son. The reason those lower power amps sound better is simple. Anyone building anything to a price point has to make decisions where to put the money. Every dollar budgeted to high power is a dollar not budgeted to sound quality. It really is that simple.
Forget all specification. I am not kidding! Read reviewer and actual user comments. Find ones that describe the kind of sound you want and that is your amp. It really is that simple.