Accuphase amplifier choice

@lalitk , I think that would be fair then, because I really gave the cord only 4 hours.

@dpac996 , I will plug the cord to some appliance that runs 24 X 7 and then decide in a few weeks. 
 

But, TBH, I am already loving what I am hearing. I went back and read my concerns when I started this thread. All those go out of the window - truncated treble, low power for my speakers, lost dynamics due to stepping down from 250 watts to 50 watts. And the biggest one was a comment I read on the forums somewhere - Accuphase Class A is “polite”, so I chose Class AB.

My accuphase m 1000 has 2 power cords comming out of it like the old carver tfm 75  they are wired in from factory and I would have to take it apart to put an ice plug in it  I do love the digital meters hitting 1500 plus watts.enjoy the search.and the music

"amp is fully broken-in"

Accuphase amps are always shipped by the factory after couple of days of break-in, and final tests w/ archiving test data. 

Till date I have seen the power needles go to “10” (a bit short). It was already 83dB on my phone’s decibel meter. So pretty loud. But it does not seem as loud or noisy, that I have to turn the volume down. Most of the time the needle is between 0.1and 5. Since my speakers are 4 ohm load, that 0.1, 1, 5, 10 etc corresponds to the actual watts the speakers are using. I have set the gain to -12dB on the amp. I realized that, when I initially installed the amp in the system, the volume in HQ Player was set to -6dB. I have set it to -3dB and this seems to be the final setting. This is done in HQ Player to avoid intersample overs.

Depending on your loudspeakers, how much watts have others seen their speakers consume?

Not sure if this will be of any help because of the differences in gear, room, listening volume preferences etc. but since you asked... On my Accuphase E470 integrated (180W/8 ohms, AB class) with "Compensation" button engaged (="loudness" tone correction, necessary because my room mysteriously eats up a lot of bass), at my normal listening level the power needles peak at about -18 or -20dB. The volume knob is at 8:40 (if it were a clock) and the volume displayed by the amplifier is -47dB. Speakers are the relatively easy to drive Spendor SP2/3R2, 90 dB sensitivity and 8 ohms nominal. Room is about 23 sq. meters, speakers are almost 1m away from the (long) front wall, listening position about 2.2m away from the speakers.

As for the previous topic, I also found other power cables to better the original Accuphase ones. I’m using a Lessloss C-marc for the DP550 SACD player and a Clearer Audio (relatively inexpensive boutique brand using OCC copper and Furutech connectorr) Copper Line power cord for the amplifier.