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<blockquote data-quote="Mark_ab" data-source="post: 73255" data-attributes="member: 541433"><p>Contrary to your arguement, the amplifier will always produce it&#039;s rated power at a specific impedence. A gain level is nothing more than a potentiometer used in matching input signals so that you have an effective swing in volume on your head unit. If both the preamp&#039;s voltage and the gain are set effectively, even a high voltage (7V+) signal will have the full volume band to work with before saturation occurs (&quot;clipping&quot;). Because gain levels are set low does not mean that there is no power going out, it simply means that the head unit&#039;s swing will be larger than the amplifiers ability to send out a louder signal. In other words, if you have the gain set too high, when you turn the volume up on your head unit, the loudspeaker gets too loud too quickly. Reaching maximum volume before saturation at, say, 10/30 is not useful. The opposite is true if the gain is too low. You cannot reach maximum volume even at 30/30; not because of the power output, but because of the signal differences.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Mark_ab, post: 73255, member: 541433"] Contrary to your arguement, the amplifier will always produce it's rated power at a specific impedence. A gain level is nothing more than a potentiometer used in matching input signals so that you have an effective swing in volume on your head unit. If both the preamp's voltage and the gain are set effectively, even a high voltage (7V+) signal will have the full volume band to work with before saturation occurs ("clipping"). Because gain levels are set low does not mean that there is no power going out, it simply means that the head unit's swing will be larger than the amplifiers ability to send out a louder signal. In other words, if you have the gain set too high, when you turn the volume up on your head unit, the loudspeaker gets too loud too quickly. Reaching maximum volume before saturation at, say, 10/30 is not useful. The opposite is true if the gain is too low. You cannot reach maximum volume even at 30/30; not because of the power output, but because of the signal differences. [/QUOTE]

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