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If we go with 41Hz, my amp makes about 172, uh... sonic torques....?
Gaolee
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Right back to the Grainiax. Gotta get nitro, poly, tort, flats, and all that in before the lock somehow.
There is no standards policing body checking company claims about wattage. Therefore, there's a lot of corporate misinformation and flat out lies. Some claim peak wattage when RMS is a much more useful number, and typically half of the peak rating. Even when reporting both Peak and RMS, there are ways to fudge the numbers, and fudging is the norm in the SS industry.
Before tube amps, tubes were used in everything, like scientific instruments and military gear, so tube specs were strictly defined, and actual output known without question. The tube types haven't changed much since then, and the correct specs persist.
For some reason I don't understand or care about, when SS tech came into use, companies found wiggle room and abused it.
So what a watt is, is strictly defined. How shady companies measure and report wattage, is not.
Before tube amps, tubes were used in everything, like scientific instruments and military gear, so tube specs were strictly defined, and actual output known without question. The tube types haven't changed much since then, and the correct specs persist.
For some reason I don't understand or care about, when SS tech came into use, companies found wiggle room and abused it.
So what a watt is, is strictly defined. How shady companies measure and report wattage, is not.
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As many have stated, a watt is a watt is a watt. The important distinction is that amps are rated for clean power. We like tube distortion, solid state not so much.
In other words, max tube watts are where the party starts, max solid state watts are where the cops show up.
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I feel like I just got a shotgun blast of watt knowledge to the face! I wonder what a mix of NOS watts and brand new watts gets you?
James Watt. Solid state. He was louder if you put him in a tube.
You can wiggle with tubes, too. The new Ampeg "50 watt" PF50T is rated 50 watts RMS at 20% total harmonic distortion (THD) (probably at 1kHz)...basically well into clipping. I'll take a swag that if it was rated like a hi-fi amp...20Hz-20kHz at less than 1% THD...it would probably be more like 25 watts.
When I owned my 1961 Fender Bassman head although it was rated at 50 watts RMS (110 watts "peak music power", what the amp can do for short bursts vs. continuous signals), on the bench it started to clip at just over 30 watts.
And none of those are digital amps.
