"Barry Mann" wrote in message
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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!

I think we tend to equate distorted with "loud".

Exactly.

MrT.