Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Need help making final decision(Reciever)

I wish receiver mfgs would start adding clipping indicators to their amps. Used to be so simple -- take the output from the amp, scale it down with resistors, compare it to the amplifier input, and start firing LEDs if the two signals don't match.

It would be particularly easy to implement now that everything has microprocessors... just a single muxed ADC to digitize the signal coming out of the power amp, and do the rest in firmware. Has anyone seen clipping indicators on anything other than a BHPA (Big Honkin' Power Amp) ?

EDIT -- having said that, the chances of you clipping enough to matter on HT is (in my opinion) pretty much zero. Your ears will give out first. Music is tougher on a receiver than HT because the sub doesn't do so much of the work, and because you get high sustained SPLs. Most amps will put out more power in a short peak than they will continuously (because the power supply voltages don't droop) and the HK can put out enough current that it's doing to do a good job of powering those peaks.

Yes the 7300 will play a tiny bit louder but from what I remember the difference is only a couple of dB, ie barely noticeable. On the other hand, if you don't care about the room EQ then there is no reason not to go with the 7300 and it does seem to have some other nice things eg. video upconversion...