GilmourD
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Re: One 100 watt amp vs. two 50 watt amps. Which sounds louder?
If you turned up a Marshall 1959 to approximately 5-6 (depends on the year due to different B+ voltages, so it could be 3-4 or 7-8) it would be 100 watts clean, just like a maxed out solid state amp, but at 10 would be a heavily distorted 150-180 watts (again, depending on the year and the B+).
I just needed to state that because tube watts vs solid state watts is a fallacy. It's advertising vs distortion.
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Watts are watts, regardless of tube or solid state. The difference is that a tube amp can exceed the advertised wattage (RMS, clean) at the cost of distortion while a solid state amp is designed so that the volume control can not allow the amp to clip.
If you turned up a Marshall 1959 to approximately 5-6 (depends on the year due to different B+ voltages, so it could be 3-4 or 7-8) it would be 100 watts clean, just like a maxed out solid state amp, but at 10 would be a heavily distorted 150-180 watts (again, depending on the year and the B+).
I just needed to state that because tube watts vs solid state watts is a fallacy. It's advertising vs distortion.
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