powering X-tro's

Ok, looking into matrix amps and the proline 3000 now.

but just out of curiosity, anyone any experience with the T.AMP D3400 digital amplifier or the crown xls 5000 and if they would be any good on the 15" duty?

Read peoples comments d3400 on here so far but there didn't seem to be much of a conclusion.


Edited by AMD79 - 02 August 2010 at 7:48pm

I run my 6 x-tro's on 2 camco vortex 6 amps. They have the option to connect up to 1 ohm in parallel mode, so i put 3 x-tro's on one vortex' output, this way it is a lot easier wiring. And each driver gets about 900 w. I saw some cheap vortex amps on the second hand page of the german site of thomann..

what ever you do don't buy any thing from w.audio,that would just be criminal to play them through xtros,just get some nice second hand amps like people have said .they would last so much longer and sound so much better and you would only need two not three amps if you get one powerful enough to do mid&high,good luck 

Best value for money is to go for heavyweight (conventional power supply) amps... for the 4 15" drivers you might consider things like the EV P Series (P3000), Crest CA Series, QSC MX3000/JBL MPX1200 (same amp), Crest 8001. These are all big heavy beasts but well regarded and cheaper than the new breed of lightweight amps like the FFA's. My knowledge of these beasts is only really gleaned from reading around though, I haven't used any of the above.

I have used a pair of MC2 T2000's bridged into 4 ohms to run our twin 15" cabs which worked really well but I think two of them would probably be more expensive than one of the amps I've mentioned above.

Matrix amps are well liked by many and less expensive than most - again I haven't used them so can't really comment, just giving you ideas. PKN amps have had some good press on SP recently and seem good value too, but you are moving up into the £1k+ region then...

Yet another option might be one of the better heavyweight chinese made amps like the Proline series sold by Thomann.

For the Punishers I would recommend a second handed QSC PL6.0 or even better a PL9.0, also MC2 E45 comes to my mind. FFA amps seem to have some issues at the moment as can be read in the FFA topic. Both the QSC and MC2 I have heard on the Punishers and they do very well. At one time we also used LAB Gruppen, this was also very nice!

Edited by Contour - 27 July 2010 at 8:36pm

And thanks for the great design Walt.
Tested my xtros out for the first time the other day with a friends amps, and wasn't disappointed, they sounded awesome!
Can't wait to try the whole system out with the puns underneath!


Edited by AMD79 - 27 July 2010 at 8:05pm