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**"Obviously, the amp can be pushed beyond it's limits but it overloads
so smoothly that the effect is more like compression than clipping and
yet it doesn't lose dynamics."

Who was the copy editor for this ad?

Just sales hype. Caveat emptor!
If it really is triode connected then it must be clipping long
before 10W.

**Not the point. Compression is, by it's very nature, a reduction in
dynamics.

Perhaps the inscrutable Chinese are even more cunning than we
thought. Not only are they building amplifiers for very little money,
but they are also re-writing the laws of physics:-)

**Of course. I've measured valve amps with S/N ratios exceeding a very
respectable 90+dB.

Yes. That's correct. The SNR of the 10W amp which I tested was
94dB A-weighted. So a little 'un can be a good 'un:-)

Iain