This article was originally fairly superficial and frivolous, but has been expanded (a little) to explain the matter better. Amplifier power ratings are usually honest in Hi-Fi equipment, but become ...

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Not at all. Have an amp this way is actually a good thing. You will be able to turn the gain settings down, have less distortion and avoid clipping the amp.

One of the most common challenges that board- and system-level engineers face in designing an amplifier driver for a precision successive approximation register (SAR) is optimizing the effective ...