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You're welcome vinyl. Though there is likely not much reason for concern, I am glad you are seeking assurance you are not too close to any border line.
With the right setup, Decware's ability for complex, dense and balanced music at low and medium listening levels is a really good thing for me. But also, if you optimize your system and room, the pretty unbelievable soundstage potential is quite seductive. I prefer my speakers when pushed a bit.Seduced by spacious, complete and harmonically natural musical presentation, and a great soundstage, higher volumes complete a deep immersion I seem to crave these days. Most nights before going to bed, the room dark, I sit in amazement as the music takes over my senses and consciousness.
I think you are right, that Steve's modifications will support more sense of power, as well as other meaningful refinements. It sounds from his impressions that his modifications brought the Torii to a slightly unexpected fruition, the Torii design responding to the mods in a big way. These observations make sense to me. The work I have done on mine certainly took the amp to seriously deep levels of refinement in every way, including dynamics and power.
I also have my amp toned down using OB3 VRs, 807 power tubes, and ECC88 input tubes, all of which lowering peak power compared to the stock tubes. But I for one, much prefer this sound in my setting, and am glad to have the flexibility of this amp's five tube sets, all quite useful for tuning to tastes in a given space if desired. Also the bass and impedance switches are real tools for optimizing power feel and sound. Loving to change things up now and then, and preferring a more open and complex sound than stock, some power leeway is really important for me.
I don't recall having checked my decibel levels except cursorily a long time ago just to be sure I was not getting into dangerous levels. I just checked with the meter we got for my wife's iPhone. The app is called Audio Test on the phone, a suite from Performance Audio, the loudness meter is called Decibel Meter Pro. At high listening levels I find fully complete in my system/room, the meter set @.5 seconds, typical test tunes ran ~45-70 averages, peaking @ 80 or 81. Cranked as loud as I would ever listen, really higher being into some discomfort on a dense and dynamic tune, the meter showed averages of 55-75 and a peak of 88. Same song, the meter set on .25 seconds, averages went from ~50 - 80 on this tune, the peak close @ 89.
So who knows....It will be interesting to see...I have never heard your amp, and our meters are likely different, but in theory, with the speed, dynamics, density and natural clarity of Decware, you may find yourself enjoying a fulfilling sound at a bit lower measured listening levels and without running into distortion!
Looking forward to hearing how things turn out!
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