Jim Coon answered my questions,
| The sound quality will be the same.
After posting I found Aiwa's customer service number and called there. The
rep said the same thing as the salesdroid did about quality but couldn't give
me any specifics. He did acknowledge the key difference for my situation:
that speaker wattage does not affect headphone output. (Of course it doesn't
affect TOSlink output either, and he confirmed that the TOSlink output is
active only for CD/CDR/CDRW play; the unit has no ADC and does not provide
S/PDIF from radio signals or audiocassette play.)
| You aren't going to over drive either one.
My question was about driving them *enough*, so I take it from your reply
that it was a given that it could.
| 30 watts per channel will be a 3 db increase in the sound level... Or
| just enough for you to hear the you turned it louder. You won't be
| operating anywhere near that. You will be in a linear portion of the
| output and it will make no difference.
OK then, thanks to you and the Aiwa rep I'm keeping the 14 instead of going
to the trouble of returning it and then spending $10 more for the 17. (It's
hard enough to lug the 14, and the 17 probably is heavier.)
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