Lets say you are listening to music at an average comfortable listening level of lets say 5 watts, and a drum is kicked producing a producing a sound that is "twice" as loud as the average. This requires your amplifier to provide 10 times more power or 50 watts to reproduce the sound without clipping. A sound twice as loud as the drum would require 500 watts. Twice the "loudness" is about 10 dB louder, requiring about 10 times the power.

My point is that no one will ever want to listen to music (or HT) on their 770 at a continuous power level of 300W/channel. Not only would it be deafening, but the amp would not be able to recreate the dynamic range (the difference in volume between loud and quiet passages). No sound could be louder than the average.

The reason we want amps with lots of power, and the reason they sound so good, is that they have so much dynamic range. And it is also important that they have this power available to all channels simultaneously with close to zero harmonic distortion. This means it can handle virtually all material you can throw at it and still sound good up to its rated power.

As an earlier poster indicated and was incorrectly shot down, the amplifier uses stored power to deliver to the peak requirements. It is not important that an amp can deliver to its maximum output continuously, however, as some on this thread seem to be expecting, i.e. to require more than 1800W AC power. To suggest that Outlaw is being less than honest with their specs if it can't do this is silly. Cut them some slack!