What is your experience with amp power?

@czarivey What is this 'poor dynamic floor' on high sensitivity speakers to which you object? Never heard that term before.

@mulveling  - yes if you read all of the posts, there are plenty of inaccurate statements regarding power and sound quality.  It is not my opinion but there is plenty of designs that prove this.  As my partner in my company that manufacturers tube components and he has a masters in electrical engineering, I have learned how things work and what makes them sound the way they do.  That being said, I am always open to learn something new but the inaccurate statements are based on how an amplifier can be designed and implemented.

Happy Listening.

@czarivey Wrote:

 It's a trade-off. Heavier speakers can get a lot better dynamic range from quiet listening to very LOUD.

What does the speakers weight have to do with it's dynamic range?

High efficiency loudspeaker usually have greater dynamic range than less efficient speakers, due to something called ’thermal compression’, which is heating of the voice coil. As the coil heats up, its resistance goes up too. This is far more common with lower efficiency loudspeakers! Most solid state amps will thus put out less power. This can happen with individual bass notes, causing them to compress.

Its often more difficult to find higher power amplifiers that actually sound like music, although that problem is not as big now as it was 20 years ago.

@atmasphere

I use all pro amplifiers crown xls, xti and a Cerwin Vega el-36dp along with a cvx 21-s all of those are professional level which they also put out a lot of power and sound very musical and I mean it they sing also the Cerwin Vegas makes my system sound like a movie theater, club and small concert. My goal is to have a huge concert going on in my head and around me when I’m by myself