A few more comments:
0. as other have noted, with details your question is academic and no one can explain why. If they try they lie or are fools.
1. more power is better. You may not use it, but occasionally it will allow for un-distorted dynamics etc. And there is certainly no penalty - with the great, impractical caveat "all things being equal" - since they rarely are.
2. But things are not equal. Building a powerful amplifier requires money to be spent on things that don't contribute to better sound. That's the trade-off. A giant metal chassis, giant transformers, blah blah - that are only useful if you need them. They could have gone into better parts or ????
3. one person wrote: "There are some people who say that using multiple tubes or transistors degrades the sound--simpler is purer." I strongly disagree with this. I have designed lots of amps, preamps, etc. commercially and have never ever heard such, never thought such, and in fact there is plenty of theory that indicates that many devices of ANY KIND in parallel perform better for myriad reasons that would require lots of explanation. resistors' errors average out. Capacitors see lower effective ESR. Transistors non-linearities average out. In fact i do it all the time, on purpose, even when i could get by with one device. I do it for better sound, and so does Nelson. (he has a power amp with like a billion tiny jfets on the output, all moving about a milliamp in parallel like ants).
All that said, since we are all constrained by size, budget, etc. i have much more freedom to design an awesome 20 wpc amp than if you rally need 200w or 400w. But only if it needs to be at the same price. My best sounding component set ever is still the same - my lower powered class-A amps run in pairs, fully balanced. Effortless power. Just a sense of ease, never straining, never strident. And since they are fully balanced from the preamp on, quieter and more revealing too. QED. Same product. EXACT SAME. More power. better sound. but, God only knows what it would take to build and sell that complete solution profitably today. Probably in excess of $15k -- maybe $20k. I shudder to think.
So, in theory? No - the opposite. In reality, quite often the less powerful product can sound better because that was the goal.
The omly important thing for you is that your new amp sounds good and makes you happy.
G
0. as other have noted, with details your question is academic and no one can explain why. If they try they lie or are fools.
1. more power is better. You may not use it, but occasionally it will allow for un-distorted dynamics etc. And there is certainly no penalty - with the great, impractical caveat "all things being equal" - since they rarely are.
2. But things are not equal. Building a powerful amplifier requires money to be spent on things that don't contribute to better sound. That's the trade-off. A giant metal chassis, giant transformers, blah blah - that are only useful if you need them. They could have gone into better parts or ????
3. one person wrote: "There are some people who say that using multiple tubes or transistors degrades the sound--simpler is purer." I strongly disagree with this. I have designed lots of amps, preamps, etc. commercially and have never ever heard such, never thought such, and in fact there is plenty of theory that indicates that many devices of ANY KIND in parallel perform better for myriad reasons that would require lots of explanation. resistors' errors average out. Capacitors see lower effective ESR. Transistors non-linearities average out. In fact i do it all the time, on purpose, even when i could get by with one device. I do it for better sound, and so does Nelson. (he has a power amp with like a billion tiny jfets on the output, all moving about a milliamp in parallel like ants).
All that said, since we are all constrained by size, budget, etc. i have much more freedom to design an awesome 20 wpc amp than if you rally need 200w or 400w. But only if it needs to be at the same price. My best sounding component set ever is still the same - my lower powered class-A amps run in pairs, fully balanced. Effortless power. Just a sense of ease, never straining, never strident. And since they are fully balanced from the preamp on, quieter and more revealing too. QED. Same product. EXACT SAME. More power. better sound. but, God only knows what it would take to build and sell that complete solution profitably today. Probably in excess of $15k -- maybe $20k. I shudder to think.
So, in theory? No - the opposite. In reality, quite often the less powerful product can sound better because that was the goal.
The omly important thing for you is that your new amp sounds good and makes you happy.
G