Exactly Batty. I wanted to answer this one.
Buit you won't believe how much build quality and quality components matter.
Every transistor, every condensator has it's own sound.
But no amplifier is worth anything without a steady power supply.
Your speakers are nothing but big magnets, electric motors really. They use up a lot of energy. If your woofer has to travel a huge distance to create a lot of bass, it will build op some resistance. When your amplifier hasn't got the power to cope with that, the power supply will give up and the entire thing won't have enough power to work properly. In some cases you can even see the lights flickering at high volumes. In most cases you just hear a lack of bass, the sound going really thin, losing al it's dynamics.
And then there's the simple fact of matching.
A very good amplifier can sound horrid on good speakers, just because the damn things won't match.
It's not just 1+1. An amplifier that you would describe as sounding 'sharp', can still sound really dull and wooly on some speakers that you also would describe as sounding 'sharp'. It's really weird sometime.
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