My stereo experience began during the watt wars in the late 70’s and early 80s. 30 to 50 watts with horn midrange and 12 inch woofers made wood filling sound and no damage to speakers during peaks. Watts became cheaper d speaker designers were free to experiment with smaller woofers and inefficient crossovers. I had an power meter from realistic and measure the output from from a 100 wpc nakamichi stasis amplifier into my Polk sda 2 speakers. The meter had a high and low setting 0 to 1 watt and 1 to 100. Even in a large living room most of the listening was under 1 watt and momentarily reached 5 during peak symphony or rock drum/bass combinations.
Class A into Class AB
What is the goal of a designer who makes intergrated amps that have class A for x amount of watts before it goes into class AB? Are there any examples of this being implemented well? I get this feeling that it’s kind of just a marketing thing...where people think they are getting some quality class A without the very high price tag. I was particularly looking at the CODA CSiB amps where you have three choices of how much of your first watts are class A. I have since found a few other respectable brands that implement this as well. I have yet to come across anyone who has heard much of difference between AB amps and one’s that’s state "first X amount of watts..." Class A/AB. Anyone have any experience with these kind of integrated amplifiers? Just looking for a little bit of understanding as I’m trying to upgrade my amplifier.
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