On Tue, 15 May 2007 07:36:09 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


I run two parallel systems: 100 SS Watts into 82 (84?)
dB speakers and 8 or 9 valve Watts into high 90s
speaker - the valve setup blows the other one away on
the *loudness* front!!

No prejudice there.

Yours or mine....??

Good question. The claim that a 10 watt amp sounds louder and cleaner than a
100 watt amp only makes sense if there is something very wrong with the 100
watt amp. When it turns out that the reliably-audible defects tend to
cluster around the 10 watt amp, then doesn't the person making the claim
become suspect?

Why shouldn't a 10W amp into an efficient speaker sound as loud as a
100W amp into a less efficient one? And, quite independently, why
shouldn't one pair sound better than the other?

The fault comes in when you invent the wrong reasons for one sounding
better.