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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 56829" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Mythbusting</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As I already said, the clipping is incidental to turning it up, a consequence of the smaller power amp's PS and limited headroom, not the cause of the power increase which it turning up the voltage gain and generating higher "average" power (even with transients clipping). </p><p></p><p>If you inspect the voltage gain of an underpowered system turned up too far trying to compensate for lack of more BOOM on peaks, and a properly sized (larger amps) system operated normally even while making louder BOOMs on peaks, the smaller system will be turned up to a higher voltage gain and generate more "average" power than the larger system. </p><p></p><p>This is not our first time discussing this particular misunderstanding.... If this seems repetitious to Evan (the kid) imagine how it seems to some of us. I wrote a column called Audio Mythology back in the 1980s. Old myths never die (dammit), maybe we need copper bullets or a neodymium stake through it's heart :-(</p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 56829, member: 126"] Re: Mythbusting As I already said, the clipping is incidental to turning it up, a consequence of the smaller power amp's PS and limited headroom, not the cause of the power increase which it turning up the voltage gain and generating higher "average" power (even with transients clipping). If you inspect the voltage gain of an underpowered system turned up too far trying to compensate for lack of more BOOM on peaks, and a properly sized (larger amps) system operated normally even while making louder BOOMs on peaks, the smaller system will be turned up to a higher voltage gain and generate more "average" power than the larger system. This is not our first time discussing this particular misunderstanding.... If this seems repetitious to Evan (the kid) imagine how it seems to some of us. I wrote a column called Audio Mythology back in the 1980s. Old myths never die (dammit), maybe we need copper bullets or a neodymium stake through it's heart :-( JR [/QUOTE]
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