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And of course that could be totally compensated for by using a slightly different gauge of wire.

Silver makes the sound brighter and shinier, copper makes the sound warmer, and gold richer. It is called sympathetic magic.

A "pure" power amp with no volume control is always at full gain, whereas if the amp has volume/gain set to a lower setting, the maximum power you get if you turn up volume to full in the source is lower.

Does it matter?

Collins is relying on crowdsourcing a lot. The Oxford English Dictionary notes use of "wattage" as colloquial.

I know I am tilting at windmills here, but could we please use the proper term "power" instead of the american colloqualism "wattage" that makes as much sense as "poundage" for weight or "dollarage" for price? This forum does have "science" in its name after all...

Sigh, another youtube guru misusing the word "scientific" :(

There is always Tube Saturator Vintage...

The audiophile marketing / promotion / media people are the sharks. The marks might not be remoras, but they might have remorse.

No, despite audiophool folklore and old wives tales, decent class D designs sound just as good as competent class A/B designs. The high frequency switching products are all filtered and well outside audible range.

That is not how audiophools use the term.

In that case, how about defining "synergy" as "working to normal modern standards"? :)

"Synergy" is another meaningless audiophile term. You just need to check that your speaker doesn't have some rare special needs, and then think about how much power and volume you need.

We get it, but "audiophiles" don't. HiFi was defined as far back as 1966 in DIN 45500 (and the subsequent EN 61305 standard 30 years later) as transparency, accuracy and fidelity (as in "High Fidelity" - "HiFi") to the recorded signal, in terms of lack of coloration, distortion and noise.

As your graphs showed, the sonos was amplifying low frequencies, so sure, with the neutral/transparent amps something was "missing".

There are neutral, transparent amps. There are also amps that color/"enhance" the sound on purpose.

It was supposedly disabled, but there might still be EQ going on.

Burden of proof is also something audiophiles (and other believers) don't seem to understand.

Well, maybe it is a found fact...

I doubt the "Scientific" part, I don't doubt the "Audiophile" part.