Author Topic: What Are The Meters on My Integrated Amp Telling Me?  (Read 2005 times)

Offline James Edward

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What Are The Meters on My Integrated Amp Telling Me?
« on: January 27, 2019, 03:19:16 PM »
Is there a hard and fast rule on what the display means? I think on Pass class A amps the needle only moves when the amp switches to class AB operation.
My Luxman has the more traditional -60 dB to +3 dB display. Does 0 dB represent the point at which the amp is clipping, or is there more to it than that?
Thanks for any input.
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Re: What Are The Meters on My Integrated Amp Telling Me?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2019, 09:13:42 AM »
  James are not the meters on the Luxman for power output ? The red area indicates clipping point.





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Re: What Are The Meters on My Integrated Amp Telling Me?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2019, 12:43:59 PM »
Yes they are power meters, but not marked in watts. I thought maybe there was some correlation between the - dB point and a given number of watts. The Spatials are pretty efficient, and I haven’t yet come near the clipping point.
Thanks.
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