It's been debated in various places re the sound quality of small amps vs big amps. in my experience ive found the smaller sibling by the same designer often sounds superior to its larger more powerful brother. I noticed this with the krells ive owned (ksa-50 vs ksa-100 and ksa 80 vs ksa-250) and i've observed the same difference bewteen two spectral amps i curently have in the house (dma-150s & dma-80).
i cant find where i read it but i recall something about the loss of linearity with mult output transistors you find in big amps (more than a dozen per ch in many cases), not being able to match them, poorer signal propagation (much more wire, longer signal traces over larger circuit boards, etc) and bigger PS xfmers that put out more RFI, hash, etc.
Whats the conventional wisdom on this subject, whats been your experience and does this crossover to tube amps as well?
i cant find where i read it but i recall something about the loss of linearity with mult output transistors you find in big amps (more than a dozen per ch in many cases), not being able to match them, poorer signal propagation (much more wire, longer signal traces over larger circuit boards, etc) and bigger PS xfmers that put out more RFI, hash, etc.
Whats the conventional wisdom on this subject, whats been your experience and does this crossover to tube amps as well?