In fact, Alan's commnets raise an interesting conandrum on receivers' power specs: (1) the real performance limits of the amp / power supply per se, versus (2) how conservative the current/thermal protection has been set for a given receiver. This definitely complicates how you read the power specs of modern receivers.
It would be nice if all these third-party reviews actually measure and distinguish between (1) the max power at the clipping point, and (2) the max power limited by protection circuit, since these two mean very different things for the amp.
