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<blockquote data-quote="Notwerk" data-source="post: 2242703" data-attributes="member: 553427">All power from an amp is &quot;clean&quot; provided the gains aren&#039;t dialed up inappropriately. No amp made in the past 50 years probably makes &quot;dirty&quot; power. It&#039;s a myth. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Tube amps are dirty, in that they introduce distortion, but that&#039;s by design. All transistor amps, except in extreme cases, produce clean power -- provided you set it up right.So, what you&#039;re trying to do is pick an amp that provides enough power for the application and then carefully setting the gains to avoid distortion.Whether an amp is rated at 12, or 13.8 or 14 volt is probably of very little significance. What difference can it make in power? 10 or 12 watts each way? You&#039;d have to double the power on the amp to get a +3db boost in volume. A difference of 10 or 12 watts on an amp that&#039;s already producing 150 watts is negligible. I don&#039;t understand why people put so much in an amp providing 10 more watts than it&#039;s rated at. Or five less. If it&#039;s in the ballpark, and you understand what you&#039;re paying for and have realistic expectations of what you&#039;re paying for, ratings are pretty arbitrary...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Notwerk, post: 2242703, member: 553427"] All power from an amp is "clean" provided the gains aren't dialed up inappropriately. No amp made in the past 50 years probably makes "dirty" power. It's a myth. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] Tube amps are dirty, in that they introduce distortion, but that's by design. All transistor amps, except in extreme cases, produce clean power -- provided you set it up right. So, what you're trying to do is pick an amp that provides enough power for the application and then carefully setting the gains to avoid distortion. Whether an amp is rated at 12, or 13.8 or 14 volt is probably of very little significance. What difference can it make in power? 10 or 12 watts each way? You'd have to double the power on the amp to get a +3db boost in volume. A difference of 10 or 12 watts on an amp that's already producing 150 watts is negligible. I don't understand why people put so much in an amp providing 10 more watts than it's rated at. Or five less. If it's in the ballpark, and you understand what you're paying for and have realistic expectations of what you're paying for, ratings are pretty arbitrary... [/QUOTE]

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