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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2591316" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>The freq isn't the issue either.  It's simply the difference between the actual recording level of the music and the reference level that you used to set the gain.  6dB is 25% of full power.  If you only had 6dB of dynamic range then you would get 50 watts with peaks to 200w out of a 200WRMS amp.  Since you have a lot more dynamic range than that, even with the compression that's used on most new recordings, your normal level is much more than 6dB, more like 10 or more dB, down from reference.  10dB down it 1/10th of the total power.  12dB is 1/16th the power.  Get the picture?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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