"Mike Rieves" wrote in message


Specs don't tell the whole story, or even a significant
part of it.

Someone obviously believes that all spec sheets are the same.

Amps with the exact same specs may sound
quite different from one another, and how an amp handles
the reactive load that a real world speaker represents is
another matter entirely.

How amplifiers handle reactive loads can and have been speced.

You don't see specs for things like this on a $99 Sherwood 100wpc stereo
receiver, which is not to say that said receiver might or might not actually
handle some of the more reactive loads around pretty well.

Amps specs are measured using a
pure resistive load, which is only a vague, inaccurate
approximation of a real world speaker.


Again, true for some but not all amp spec sheets.

Studio amps, in
general, are designed to provide accurate drive to a wide
range of reactive speaker loads, so that the sound coming
from the speaker is an accurate representation of what is
going into the amp, this may not necessarily true of a
hifi amp.

This is an over-generalization that is impossible to defend.

Some high-end hifi amps do make good studio
amps, but one can generally get an amp designed for
studio use that sounds just as good in the studio for a
considerably lower price.

I will agree that home audio gear above a certain price point is often a
poorer value than comparably-priced pro audio gear.