Assertion: amplifier's power | /r/HasProperty | wasted
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text: If no power were wasted, the transformer could be much smaller and a heat sink would not be required.
text: We know that Class AB is inefficient, or at least isn't as efficient as we would like it to be, considering that at power-amp levels there's a lot of power being wasted.
text: Some power is wasted, and we would prefer that it could be sensibly employed in driving the loudspeakers to ever-higher sound pressure levels — or, at least, not converted to heat.
text: Where power is wasted is where a transistor is in partial conduction.