Originally Posted By: fredk
I still find it hard to accept that, under continuous power a signal can start clipping in the 70w range and remain inaudible through a 60% power increase, but I think I am the one flogging the dead horse now.

Keep in mind it requires a 100% increase in power to gain just 3 dB. So even without taking clipping into account a 66% increase in power is largely inaudible, being about 2 dB.

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