Randy, the only thing that I'd think would be even mildly disturbing in the additional quotes from Gene's test is the protective circuit shutting it down as he described, but this supposedly was corrected and you'd think that this also applied to later production units.

As far as the numbers in the second paragraph, they all figure and are good. 1.42v in and 32v out is a gain of 27dB[20 log(32/1.42)], as Gene mentioned elsewhere, and the resulting power from Ohm's Law(P=Vsquared/R)is 1024/4= 256 watts.

By the way, my calculations for 106dB at your listening position came up about 100-110 watts into 4 ohms.

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