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With cars, horsepower is horsepower, but there's also torque, suspension, gear ratios, etc. Using cars to buttress an "amps sound different" argument is therefore completely useless. Now, you could definitely argue for the pride of ownership factor.



We agreed on "everything else being equal". That includes torque, suspension, gear ratios, etc .

Amps also have sub-systems as much as cars do. Each sub-system is governed by input, output and processing specifications just like every car's sub-system. Torque and horsepower are as related as power, voltage and current in an amp.

Now, two cars can have the exact same specs and yet one may be more preferable to drive. And it all boils down to the fact that "user experience" in a car is not "specifiable". Amps on the other hand are very specifiable. There is nothing "touchy feely" about the electrons coming out of an amp .