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<blockquote data-quote="thch" data-source="post: 4362596" data-attributes="member: 562032">well it does, but there are two cases.normally clipping is from people being greedy.&nbsp; eg, the amp&#039;s PSU provides 50V.&nbsp; the user puts in a strong signal and cranks the gain.&nbsp; in order to fufill this need, the amp would need to put out 2500V.&nbsp; this can&#039;t actually happen, so the amp outputs 50V.&nbsp; and the high gain assures that the amps output will stay at 50V (or -50V) for the majority of the wave.&nbsp; this cleary gives more power then a sine wave with a peak of 50V.the second case is the amp giving up.&nbsp; eg, if in the same case the user set the gains to get 50V peaks (unclipped signal output), then later the battery sags to 10V from 12V and the PSU only provides 40V.&nbsp; now the amp is clipping, but never putting out more power then it would have if the users original, sane setting, were used.and yes, for a given peak voltage, the clipped signal is higher power then the sine wave.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thch, post: 4362596, member: 562032"] well it does, but there are two cases. normally clipping is from people being greedy. eg, the amp's PSU provides 50V. the user puts in a strong signal and cranks the gain. in order to fufill this need, the amp would need to put out 2500V. this can't actually happen, so the amp outputs 50V. and the high gain assures that the amps output will stay at 50V (or -50V) for the majority of the wave. this cleary gives more power then a sine wave with a peak of 50V. the second case is the amp giving up. eg, if in the same case the user set the gains to get 50V peaks (unclipped signal output), then later the battery sags to 10V from 12V and the PSU only provides 40V. now the amp is clipping, but never putting out more power then it would have if the users original, sane setting, were used. and yes, for a given peak voltage, the clipped signal is higher power then the sine wave. [/QUOTE]

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