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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:29 am
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It's down to the power rating of the amp. The exception I see in your list is the blues deluxe.

Basicaly it's the difference between Peak and Root Mean Square (RMS) power.

A amp's watt rating is usually done in RMS (except Behringer they always rate at Peak).
However a amp running at full tilt will put out near double its RMS rating, which is its Peak power rating. Basicaly thats when your amplifier is distorting through the power amp, whether it be solidstate or valve.

What you do get from this is the ability to alter when your speaker sound starts to break up, more commonly known as 'Cone Cry'. Don't want to push your amp to 10 to get the speaker wailing, change the speaker to one of a lower watt rating and get the cone cry at a lower volume. E.g lowering a Bjr's speaker to one of a lower wattage, say 25 watts. You won't get more than 25watts out of it and continualy pushing the amp to max will wear the hell out of the speaker quickly.

It's not something that works for every application. If you like your 60's era hendrix and clapton sounds it's well worth experimenting with. If your playing Slayer stuff or country, then don't bother.

You will go through speakers though. Then again, thats what their there for.

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