[Scott Dorsey]

Trevor Wilson wrote:

**True. What you said was bull****. Now, pay attention to my words. Focus
on: "Otherwise identical". Also focus on: "Poorly designed". If you, like I
have, taken a well designed Class A/B amp and cranked the bias current up to
100 Watts Class A, you will have noted no sonic differences between the
Class A/B operation and the Class A operation. OTOH, I have taken crappily
designed Class A/B amps and cranked the bias up to high levels of Class A
and found significant sonic improvements from doing so.

No, that bears no connection with what I said. I said that if you take a
class B amplifier and crank the gain up into the A/B range, that the sound
quality may be subjectively worse even though the THD is reduced. I said
nothing at ALL about full class A operation.

IOW: The design is more important than the Class of operation. Class A will
help a bad design and, at best, do nothing to a good design.

Absolutely.
--scott

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