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Your comment ties in the what John Siau emailed me today.

When ss amps clip, it’s sudden and ugly. With ss amps t’s best to keep far distance from the clipping point.

John’s last comment in the conversation.

Yes, it will work well in your application. The feed-forward error correction keeps the amplifier distortion-free when driving low impedances.

Or maybe distortion and clipping are not the same thing? 

Regarding searching for new speakers. I am very happy with the CS3.7’s I am enjoying the heck out of them now. I am just trying to squeeze every bit of performance, especially in a challenging room. What I have now is great, let me try for excellent which the CS3.7 is capable of. I do want the 2 COAX’s to measure the same though. Need to fix that.

I am going to one day build out a living room system. That will be using different gear and the speakers will likely will be the KEF Blade or Yamaha NS5000. Along with the CS3.7 the other 2 are my fav speakers. A shame these things cost money.

@yyzsantabarbara,@yyzsantabarbara, “A shame these things cost money.”
Haha😄

@jon_5912, Before I forget, let's remember that those calculations were for a 1 meter distance, not the 3 meter recommended distance. Even allowing for the greater efficiency of doubling the channels, and the typical room gain, in practice we can expect much greater power demands in typical use.

@yyzsantabarbara,
 There are different types of distortions. Clipping is the consequence of some distortions.
 The Benchmark is somewhat unique, I was wondering just how it’s feedforward mechanism works when confronted with low impedances? Does it reduce power when sensing overload, does it shut down, does it provide some sort of dynamic headroom, does it self correct the distortion ala DSP, or something else?

@thoft, sounds like a nice piece for a different application.