rsgladwin85 10+ year member
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Nothing electronic is 100% efficient that supplies power. The harder it has to work to provide power, the hotter it will get, therefore lowering its ability to supply a steady stream of power. There are ways to improve efficiency, which in most cases is why some items are higher priced, because they use more capable components. The easiest way is to cool your power source. This is the reason PC power users, have turned to water cooling, and on the extreme end even thermal tanks, and liquid nitrogen.You lost me.
An amp 86% efficient doesn't mean it will supply the same signal quality and strength 86% of the time. It means that the current that the amp is drawing from the electrical system, 86% of it is in form of musical output power, and the remaining 14% is dispersed in heat.
Example: If an amp is drawing 100 amperes of current, 86% of it went to the amplification of the music in watts/power, and the remaining 14 amperes of current went in heat, sense no amp on the market can be 100% efficient.
Unless I miss-understood you????