Class A Watts


Are class A watts more powerful then class AB, or is a watt just a watt. In other words would a 100 watt class A amp struggle with speakers that a 200 Watt class AB amp can handle just fine? I guess current would matter as well. Anyway, I was just curious.
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Showing 1 response by david12

I tend to agree, Watts are Watts, though I find Class A is the only way for me to listen to SS amps, but that's just me.

Where there does seem a difference is tube and SS watts. The former seems to handle comparitively difficult loads, beter than SS amps with the same rated output, given sufficiently robust output transformers. Whether that is only because of the well known "Benign Clipping", that charecterises tube amps, I am not sure.