"Derrick Fawsitt" wrote in message
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I have an old Telefunken Valve Radio, (the one with the two elliptical
speakers on the front and a one tweeter elliptical speaker each side,
model called "Opus"), and apart from the wonderful FM sound it has only
eight watts per channel and yet could blow you out of the room. I am a
non-tech person so I will leave it to others here to describe why its so
good. It also is a lovely piece of furniture and of course I shall never
sell it.

I have a 500 mW transistor radio with 3" speaker that "blows you out of the
room". Yet my Hi-Fi needs 100 times that much to do the same :-)
Of course the actual measured SPL in the latter case is about 20 dB higher.
Isn't the human brain an amazing thing!

MrT.