2. Can someone elaborate on how amplifiers work at specific wattage ranges. I’ve read posts claiming that all amplifiers sound the same if they’re not clipping, which is BS BS BS BS BS ASR don’t try to pull my leg. People seem negligent that even miliwatt performance can be an important metric for some people.
Welcome to ASR.
You are off to on odd start. Your first post you admit limited knowledge of amps characteristics or function, and say
bullshit over and over regarding the sate of observational science on amps.
This isn't that forum, you should be able to tell that ahead of time. Please read the room better.
Please read this, and ask yourself if you actually think you could pass a blind test under controlled conditions and actually tell amps apart that aren't broken or driven to distortion.
There is even a survey article published by AES, the only amps that people are able to identify are with tube amps oscillating, audible frequency response differences, or outright fudging the stats.:
I have posted on some of the few cases where amps do have audibly different characteristics; noise when hooked up to hyper efficient drivers. But get over your perception that you can actually broadly hear differences in amps.
Reading the rest of your posts, hot mess. You need to read and understand some of the content on ASR more than you can ever imagine. Or perhaps curl up with a good book, something by Floyd Toole would help with your speaker ideas. I don't know how to cure your amp fetish though, you may have to actually go and buy some different amps, subject yourself to some blind testing (tedious, but if you do it right you will discover how your hearing is deceiving you on this amp thing).
And before you quote Benchmark's 'first Watt' test, please understand that John_Siau has finally explained the low power test where they can pass blind tests:
OK, but let's examine it properly, without masking by measuring system noise and without measurement misinterpretation. Below is the 335mW/4ohm. Can you see any hints of crossover distortion?? Audible crossover distortion?? All distortion components above H3 are below 0.0001%, thus below -120dB...
www.audiosciencereview.com
The amp they compared to had large bias drift, creating large crossover distortion, and the test was done with sine tones to further enhance the audibility of the distortion. Even then, PMA posted an amp with dramatic crossover distortion, and you are free to take the test in Foobar to see if you can actually hear.
Here are the plots for the offending amplifier (shown in green on all graphs). The second amplifier used in the ABX test was the AHB2 (shown in red on all graphs). These tests plots were made in 2016. Thank you for the data provided, I appreciate it.
www.audiosciencereview.com
But of course the first link I posted should be clear since it involves Mark Levinson Class A monoblocks and Futterman tube monoblocks (both Holy Grails of amplification), vs. a pioneer receiver. And nobody could tell the difference, and they weren't chumps.