
tradeoffs

Audio amplifiers: How much power (and at what tradeoffs) is really required?
My first proper audio setup, discounting the GE Wildcat record player I had as a kid: was a JVC PC-11 portable stereo system (thank goodness for Google Image Search to refresh my memory!), an example of which my (Catholic) high school chaplain owned, played (George Winston tapes, to be precise) in the background during weekly…