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Originally Posted by Matata
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.
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So you're talking about a 100W RMS single channel amp, and a 350W head that needs to be split among two full stacks unless you want to destroy the speakers..
My point still stands that power is power, no matter how you look at it. There isn't a difference between tubes and solid state, you'd be misunderstanding the amplification process. Bust out your physics if you want. I happen to be an electrical engineer who's personal experience tells me that 60W RMS is more than enough to make your ears bleed.