I figured out a long time ago that less is better - amplifiers and other components with fewer parts sound better to me - better imaging, transparency and so on. The less stuff a signal has to travel through the better. High power means more parts. I just finished building a Firstwatt F5 which is 25 watts per channel class A. As you know Nelson Pass is designing these low power amps with as few parts as possible. Speakers are Klipsch Forte which are something like 98 db sensitive. But what you like is what matters.
What is your experience with amp power?
So I wanted to know what my fellow audiophiles feel about power.
I realize that some speakers are current hounds and need a prodigious amount of power or watts (lets say Maggies). But my question is for speakers that do not. Speakers that are easy to drive, or maybe just higher in efficiency and can be driven by a modest tube amp or even an adequate receiver.
What is you experience with high power, high current amps ? Do your speakers sound better with more power? At low volumes, in a small or medium sized room? Do you think the quality of the music is dependent on higher powered amps?