While it's true they aren't the same thing, watts and performance are definitely NOT like apples and oranges. Performance is dependent on a lot more than watts of power available for the lamps, but Watts do affect performance.
Maybe a comparison to a car stereo would make more sense. You can have a piece of crap factory stereo that puts out 100 watts using speakers that have poor frequency response. Or, you can have a JVC 100 watt receiver and Alpine speakers with a 15hz to 22khz .001%thd system and have some awsome performance that will blow away any homey's bass pounding static producing system on the block. |