Explain what is a clean power amplifier?

I like this definition of Embedding: to make something an integral part of.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embed

I 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.

I consider myself an audiophile precisely because i avoid the pitfall of obsessively buying anything especially or because it is very costly...(it is easy tough i dont have money) :)

I try to buy the best at the lowest cost, it takes me 5 years to do so.... for the last 2 years my choices being so good my buying spree at low cost is ended...

A true audiophile think mostly about embedding rightfully the audio system then putting it on the right track to reach his true potential optimal S.Q.

A true audiophile is able to made it possible at the lowest cost...

Buying costly gear is easy, anybody can.... Embedding it rightfully, with the necessary methods and controls, mechanically, electrically and acoustically, at very low cost, is being an audiophile...

A bunch of ready made branded new pricey tweaks is not a method tough ....

I have create methodically my own "tweaks" for my specific gear, house , and room....At peanuts costs, and some has been even scandalized by this possibility in this thread few hours ago and expressed their anger for this blasphemy against audio and against this pretense of mine....

But reviewers, marketers, and upgrading obsessive consumers are not audiophiles by birth ....The first 2 species sells products, the second one accumulate one piece of gear after another without thinking and believing that the last will be ready out of the box to be the best there is for high fidelity experience.... But this only gives frustrations and illusory experiences most of the times....A real experience is continuous and develop in time step by step on years....This is an audiophile history in the making because we become audiophile by owning a creative listening history, not by owning a product or a brand...

Audiophiles listen their music, because they love music and music train their ears and soul....

The main instrument of the audiophile is his listening history and ears experiments....

Most people mocking audiophile dont have a clue....Sorry....

Now I may not have done my embedding (mahgister) or integration of my system in my house quite the same as anyone else.

Nobody can do the rightful triple embeddings in the same exact ways, with exactly the same devices and the same materials.... Why?

Simply because we must create our own particular solutions. for our own particular resonance-vibration dimension,for our own electrical grid, for our own acoustical space, different from gear to gear and house to house, and room to room.... Different also in price and time invested....

The only common thing between us will be the creativity....And some commonality of the problems then some commonality of the solutions.... My best to you....

rixthetrick, I'm disappointed in your characterization of my spending on audio. You are not aware of my personal finances, nor of what you see that is on loan for review vs. what I own. I would appreciate it if you refrained from attempting to judge my personal decisions on gear. Thank you.  :) 

One more comment; for the record (again, as I have said this publicly prior), I have never berated or mocked any low budget system.  Rather, I have consistently encouraged and complimented persons who I felt put together impressive low budget systems and said that I thought they would enjoy them. 

I will never forget that more than 40 years ago I started out with a Radio Shack receiver and two mismatched, naked full range drivers taken from console stereos and hooked up with lamp cord. So, please, let's not have derisive comments about my showing disdain for budget audio. 

I have, over the past 25 years, budgeted literally a line item for audio and invested into my system annually. That is one sure way to end up after many years of working at it, with something better than at first. Putting my time in learning, designing and building a specialized audio room was well worth the effort and cost. It was one of the most rewarding things I have done in the hobby, and the satisfaction of using the room regularly is quite high. I highly recommend to those with the space and inclination to give it a go. 

BTW, there is recurring insistence on this forum to the effect that the room is the most important part, that a serious audiophile needs a treated, dedicated room, etc. Nonsense; I oppose those sweeping comments, partly because I enjoyed audio in a lived in part of the house previously, and because I think they vastly overrate the impact of the room vs. the benefit of advancing the system itself. I think it would be very discouraging to the budget audiophile to see such comments, and I do not support them. Of course, a dedicated room is a bonus, but it is ridiculous to declare that one is not doing high end audio if the room is not treated with specific treatments, etc. Imo, that is a form of dismissive elitism. 

So, anyone who suggests that I'm putting down budget audio has no clue regarding my disposition.   :)