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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarthos" data-source="post: 7229604" data-attributes="member: 610335">Will you notice an actual difference in the sound of two amps of any relatively decent quality? No. Unless you already have every other part of your system perfect.As for the pricing difference, what you're paying for is reliability, and power output. If an amp says 500 watts output, then later specifies that 500 watts is the maximum output at 1 ohm, then upon testing you find that the maximum voltage (at 100% clipping) is 20 volts, you now know the maximum, 100% clipped wattage is 400 watts at 1 ohm. The maximum RMS could then be 200 watts. But then the thing probably has too small of a heatsink and is horribly inefficient so at 200 watts it'll overheat and eventually it turns out that 50 watts at 4 ohms is the only way to run it without overheating. So you're paying a tenth as much and getting a tenth the power.</blockquote>

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