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Not sure if it’s been answered before but I notice the spec of the Outlaw 2200 says max power consumption 600 watts. Obviously it’s a powerful amplifier, does that max power consumption spec correlate to how powerful it is? Does max power consumption tell us anything about how powerful an amplifier is?
I don’t think that the power consumption rating is a useful indicator of ‘how powerful it is’. I only had two years of electronics classes in a government school, so please feel free to correct me.
Different amplifier technologies have different inherent efficiencies/deficiencies. An incredibly inefficient and poorly designed amplifier could theoretically consume a lot of watts on your power bill, but may not be ‘powerful’ driving your speakers, nor sound good.
A well designed 200 watt class D amp (inherently efficient design) would most likely consume less power at the wall receptacle than a poorly designed 100 watt class A amp (inherently inefficient design), but that doesn’t make it ‘less powerful’.
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