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Matata · 01-24-2008, 09:45 AM

[quote=kermitology;1161224]Stop talking nonsense.. Seriously..

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Now you did it, I'm going to have to bust out the physics and proffesional experience.

Lets compare High End SS (Mode 4 - 400W) and Tube amps (JCM 800 - 100W) made by Marshall. My friend who worked at Mothers would A/B the amps for customers who thought the 400W must be way louder, only to have them realize that the 100W was significantly louder.

Even if the 400W is not the RMS (which it is), the RMS voltage would only be 400x.707 = 282.8W RMS. Voltage comparisons are never clean cut due to varying efficiencies of amp designs (which is why I used two marshalls for my comparison), but this whole Tube RMS = SS RMS is just bad noise.

01-24-2008, 09:45 AM	#52
Matata Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	[quote=kermitology;1161224]Stop talking nonsense.. Seriously.. [quote] Now you did it, I'm going to have to bust out the physics and proffesional experience. Lets compare High End SS (Mode 4 - 400W) and Tube amps (JCM 800 - 100W) made by Marshall. My friend who worked at Mothers would A/B the amps for customers who thought the 400W must be way louder, only to have them realize that the 100W was significantly louder. Even if the 400W is not the RMS (which it is), the RMS voltage would only be 400x.707 = 282.8W RMS. Voltage comparisons are never clean cut due to varying efficiencies of amp designs (which is why I used two marshalls for my comparison), but this whole Tube RMS = SS RMS is just bad noise. Last edited by Matata; 01-24-2008 at 09:50 AM.