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<blockquote data-quote="trebor" data-source="post: 4628540" data-attributes="member: 594368">Most decks will start to clip at some point, that means the signal will start to distort so you don&#039;t really want to ever be at this point on your deck.Theoretically you would want to set the gain of your 100W amp to go into clipping at the same time as your deck, this will give you the full clean unclipped 100Watts at full volume, if the amp gain is turned to low then you won&#039;t be getting that full 100Watts and if you turn the gain up beyond this point then you really are only adding noise and undue stress to the system............Now, that is only true if you are playing full strength test tones, but we listen to music which is constantly changing and is recorded at a much lower volume than those test tones so there is a compromise to be made to get the most out of that amp......you turn up the amp gain a little more.....so that at the loudest peaks of your music it&#039;s actually distorting if you measured them but not so much that you can hear the distortion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trebor, post: 4628540, member: 594368"] Most decks will start to clip at some point, that means the signal will start to distort so you don't really want to ever be at this point on your deck. Theoretically you would want to set the gain of your 100W amp to go into clipping at the same time as your deck, this will give you the full clean unclipped 100Watts at full volume, if the amp gain is turned to low then you won't be getting that full 100Watts and if you turn the gain up beyond this point then you really are only adding noise and undue stress to the system............ Now, that is only true if you are playing full strength test tones, but we listen to music which is constantly changing and is recorded at a much lower volume than those test tones so there is a compromise to be made to get the most out of that amp......you turn up the amp gain a little more.....so that at the loudest peaks of your music it's actually distorting if you measured them but not so much that you can hear the distortion. [/QUOTE]

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