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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 47668" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Amps with clip indicators that fire at 3dB below actual clip?I&#039;m surely repeating myself, but I&#039;ll try one more time. The voltage rails of a power amp are generally not regulated, so 3 dB before clipping will be a different power at the the beginning of the night when cool, middle, and end when the amps (actually power transformer) are hot, not to mention mains sag from moment to moment with lighting or whatever.. In dBW not as much of a difference as in Watts which all the consumers seem to relate to. If somebody actually wanted -3 dB +/- maybe 1dB OK... for people wanting to see a lot closer to clip,, a simple voltage comparator is not as appropriate of a solution. This is kind of amplifier inside baseball..&nbsp; but the actual amps in the marketplace have evolved from decades of customers buying mostly what they want... while it sounds like a few models may be off the reservation a little.JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 47668, member: 126"] Re: Amps with clip indicators that fire at 3dB below actual clip? I'm surely repeating myself, but I'll try one more time. The voltage rails of a power amp are generally not regulated, so 3 dB before clipping will be a different power at the the beginning of the night when cool, middle, and end when the amps (actually power transformer) are hot, not to mention mains sag from moment to moment with lighting or whatever.. In dBW not as much of a difference as in Watts which all the consumers seem to relate to. If somebody actually wanted -3 dB +/- maybe 1dB OK... for people wanting to see a lot closer to clip,, a simple voltage comparator is not as appropriate of a solution. This is kind of amplifier inside baseball.. but the actual amps in the marketplace have evolved from decades of customers buying mostly what they want... while it sounds like a few models may be off the reservation a little. JR [/QUOTE]

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