No, it never has. I have heard many 200 wpc amps that sounded extremely different from one another, but there was a time when 200 wpc was the peak of what could be had. Some of those amps sounded no better than many of their lower powered counterparts, while others blew them away.
It is the quality of the product not the numbers that people use to represent it, that makes one amp better than another, unless you worship Julian Hirsh...
It is the quality of the product not the numbers that people use to represent it, that makes one amp better than another, unless you worship Julian Hirsh...