Small, light, loud and good!??

[Roger Vaughan]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

The difference of 300W and the additional 2.5 lbs in weight (over the WTX-500) doesn't impress me with "new Little Mark's". Why? Because there's not much discernable volume diffence in the additional wattage (maybe +1.5 db). You don't get coverage by adding wattage, you get coverage by adding speakers.

You do get headroom though, which is going to be meaningful. An amp you run close to its output threshold sounds different than an amp which can "relax" because it's got power to spare. And you can run more speakers, I imagine. Looks to me like the amp would front-end to a bigger rig, which is probably the point of it, really.