4 1000w subs on a thomann proline- is this safe?

Hi,

Get another Proline 3000, they are cheap enough.

Don't understand people, who buy 1000W drivers, and power them with 750w each, on edge of amp clipping.

<facepalm>

levyte357- wrote: Don't understand people, who buy 1000W drivers, and power them with 750w each, on edge of amp clipping.

Reliability. With appropriate processing set there is virtually no way a person could harm those drivers with that amp.  And it will get 98% of the available performance from the drivers.. another 3dB of power won't produce another 3dB of sound... some or most of that will go into coil heating.

Conanski wrote: levyte357- wrote: Don't understand people, who buy 1000W drivers, and power them with 750w each, on edge of amp clipping. Reliability. With appropriate processing set there is virtually no way a person could harm those drivers with that amp.

So, so wrong.. Pays to know about a product, before making sweeping and technically incorrect statements.

Any PA dude who knows his salt, will tell you, safer to have larger amp with plenty of headroom, than amp too small for purpose, which will clip and square wave coils.

Especially in the case of Prolines, which even though they have great sound, clip limiting is one of the worse seen on any amp.

Some of us had Prolines from 9x years ago, have obtained the circuit schematics from Deton, & passed them onto Electronic engineers/Amp repairers, in attemp to sort this weak point out.

Search back in Amp forum history, to see some of the in depth discussions about Prolines/Deton Aone series

EDIT:Headroom sounds better than limiting.


Edited by levyte357- - 16 December 2016 at 5:05pm

KingGwarn wrote: levyte357- wrote: Get another Proline 3000, they are cheap enough. Don't understand people, who buy 1000W drivers, and power them with 750w each, on edge of amp clipping. <facepalm> Yeah the 3000s are cheap enough to just get a second one, but I run my sound on my own and I can't justify carrying an extra 37kg lump for that extra bit of juice!

Hear that..

I almost passed out, after I bought my first Proline 2700 in 2007, and realised, I just bought 5.5 stone amp, to drive 2x boxes!!





Edited by levyte357- - 16 December 2016 at 5:20pm

Timebomb wrote: levyte357- wrote: Conanski wrote: levyte357- wrote: Don't understand people, who buy 1000W drivers, and power them with 750w each, on edge of amp clipping. Reliability. With appropriate processing set there is virtually no way a person could harm those drivers with that amp. So, so wrong.. Pays to know about a product, before making sweeping and technically incorrect statements. Any PA dude who knows his salt, will tell you, safer to have larger amp with plenty of headroom, than amp too small for purpose, which will clip and square wave coils. Especially in the case of Prolines, which even though they have great sound, clip limiting is one of the worse seen on any amp. Some of us had Prolines from 9x years ago, have obtained the circuit schematics from Deton, & passed them onto Electronic engineers/Amp repairers, in attemp to sort this weak point out. Search back in Amp forum history, to see some of the in depth discussions about Prolines/Deton Aone series EDIT:Headroom sounds better than limiting. He said "With appropriate processing" - IE set a limiter on the processor so the amp dosent clip... it will be perfectly safe,  running lower powered amps is safe as houses as long as you dont clip them / set a limiter properly.