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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 27477" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Thoughts about amplifiers at 3/4 volume.&nbsp;Be careful about reading too much into what manufacturers say &quot;that&quot; other manufacturers do.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> The Crown amplifier is very likely operating at a fixed gain with a variable pad just before that amp stage to provide the appearance of variable sensitivity. This is mostly semantics, unless you are an amp designer, but they would probably love for variable amp sensitivity to become a &quot;must have&quot; feature. Good independent slow-average and fast-peak limiting are far more powerful features IMO. The multiple gain trims are perhaps somewhat useful to optimize noise floors between amp and processing, for best internal gain structure management, but I wouldn&#039;t lose any sleep over it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 27477, member: 126"] Re: Thoughts about amplifiers at 3/4 volume. Be careful about reading too much into what manufacturers say "that" other manufacturers do.... :-) The Crown amplifier is very likely operating at a fixed gain with a variable pad just before that amp stage to provide the appearance of variable sensitivity. This is mostly semantics, unless you are an amp designer, but they would probably love for variable amp sensitivity to become a "must have" feature. Good independent slow-average and fast-peak limiting are far more powerful features IMO. The multiple gain trims are perhaps somewhat useful to optimize noise floors between amp and processing, for best internal gain structure management, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. JR [/QUOTE]

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