JohnK
that was informative, though I knew that already
just to continue things, I wasn't really referring to its inability to make the speakers play loudly. I was more concerned about the distortion it would start to cause if the volume was turned up very high. For example, my amp goes -60 to +10. Say I am watching the Fast and the Furious at -15. It sounds great when they're talking or whatnot, but then when the cars are giving out a huge sound, the amp needs to push out a whole lot more watts, and it distorts a little. If I put the volume down, then the distortion stops. Therefore, it's not the source causing this. I was wondering if, say, the Denon 3802 which has something like 110 wpc would distort less at the same volume level of output in dB (not the position on the volume dial) than my 1602 at 70 wpc. And, if so, how much less would it distort.
