The 911 is a high powered solid state basic amplifier designed to satisfy the requirements of the most critical and demanding listener. It is capable of driving the lowest efficiency speaker systems as well as the largest to full output with sufficient reserve power to deliver, when required, a total peak in excess of one kilowatt.

Yet, at power levels of one watt and less, the 911 has a distortion level which is almost unmeasurable. C/M Laboratories' design philosophy of complementing high damping throughout the audio spectrum with high peak power capability results in the reproduction of crescendos and nuances with equal ease and clarity.
As the most complex load that an audio amplifier would be presented, the loudspeaker is an electrical motor coupled to a diaphragm or piston required to push and pull air at the rate and amplitude of the electrical signals represented by the original source of sound.

The ability to start, stop, accelerate, and decelerate the moving diaphragm at the precise instants of time in a controlled manner is the key to the creation of an atmosphere of 'listening through to the source'. Although high damping is one of the requirements in producing this quality of sound, it alone has little value. It can be readily understood that control over the loudspeaker is impossible without power capability as the energy required to regulate the intricate movements of the diaphragm can be many times greater than the average value. It would be a simple matter to ignore the need to consider these parameters when designing an amplifier since an amplifier design without due consideration may measure equally well when used with resistor and/or capacitor loads as another amplifier having these same qualities.

A well acknowledged but frequently forgotten aspect is that no combination of fixed resistors and capacitors will ever simulate any given loudspeaker in its entirety. The very physical fact that the former does not produce motion at all should be sufficent reason that there is little similarity when it comes to the reproduction of sound.

Thus, when hearing familiar sounds through the 911, it becomes even more apparent that the 911 is a remarkable instrument as it brings out the true qualities that conventional specifications alone could never describe.