Yeah I can see right now there's nothing on this list but a bunch of yeah I know everything when really they know nothing
To other people come oVet. With their bird meters and measured to radio on the radio is due in 380 on the high with a 2 1/2 what dk.
OK my cheap 700s May be wrong but I refuse to believe that two separate sets of birds are wrong
Easy Hoss; you might want to open your mind up here a bit.
Let's understand that each 1446 is spec'd @ 75 watts each/300watts for four. That is clean, usable power out - according to the people who mfd the part as well as providing to the engineering community with the data sheet to create applications. That is using 12.5v, so at 13v (not in specs with the data sheet BTW), it will start putting out a little more power. But also starting to add some distortion/harmonics just because you used 13v; 13.8v will have even more. Transistors are notorious for doing just that.
Now, lets add more input power than they were spec'd for. They are spec'd for 5 watts/ea; so a total of 20 watts peak input @ 13v using four transistors with some distortion should put out 320 watts. That is almost 10% added distortion from the spec'd 300 w/o distortion.
Even if this amp claims to be AB biased; bias circuits in many of these amps aren't what really should be. They are built on the cheap.
Now, if you drive it with 40 watts, not only does the distortion rise to 30% or more, but you run the risk blowing those transistors and will need expensive repairs just because you wanted some more watts. Extra cooling will not help, because inside the transistor at its junction will get hotter/faster than the heat sink can cool them.
Just a matter of time . . .