Too Much Power

i have a mcintosh mc602 amp with 600 watts per chanell at 2 ,4 and8 ohms!! where doe's my amp stand???

russ69 - Understood. Thanks.

ghdprentice - Thanks for insight.

Beyond a certain level, maximum power output (taken by itself) is not a very useful measure. Even prior to the class D era, there were plenty of power amplifiers used in pro audio that had hundreds of watts output, were comparatively cheap, and sounded pretty horrible. Power supply quality, component quality and consistent (e.g. transistor matching), the overall design philosophy and circuit layout and manufacturing quality are all influential. My current amplifiers are the lowest powered (120 w/ch into 4 ohms) that I've had in my system for a long time - and they sound the best so far.

My pure class A 30 watts seems plenty for my needs..runs hot even at 30 watts, at least I know it’s on or working. 😁

A problem you can run into is some high powered amps need a bug enough load on the to sound there best. Sometimes easy to drive speakers sound like garbage on a big amplifier as they don't possess enough load on the amplifier. Also generally speaking big amps timing is slower than small amps.