Any Linea research 4/8 chan M series owners here?

Even 2 channel amplifiers can not really do 5000W "continuous" on 2 Ohms (just more likely 2-3000Watts for few seconds..)

There is absolutely non-exisitent category a 4ch amp with 4* 5000W real capability = when all channels are loaded with SUBS for example. When I tested Powersoft X4 (also called '4* 5K amp..) it worked only with very low duty cycles, speaker ways splitted accross its channels like one for 1. SUB another for 2. LOW and the 3. Middle and 4. HIGH..

Still it was somewhat 'affordable with some sacrifie of dynamics' with relative low duty cycle musics, dense signal on strong speakers would immedatly pull down the whole amp ! Yet not speakeing about ALL channels loaded by SUBs! :-D

I guess it highly depends what music your playing, a pure sine wave with crest factor of 3db is not going to be sustainable but a lot of bass heavy music does have long basslines for the entirety of the track. 

Matty309 wrote: I guess it highly depends what music your playing, a pure sine wave with crest factor of 3db is not going to be sustainable but a lot of bass heavy music does have long basslines for the entirety of the track.

less than you might think. if you are producing music you will presumably be listening it on monitors powered by commercially available amplifiers and will soon learn that a bass sound with a higher level impact at the start and then a lower level sustain sounds louder and better. and all basslines must have some variation (duty cycle) or it fails the definition of being music. Someone did blow up some DJ monitors of mine within 30 seconds of plugging in once - after looking for a problem with the amplifier I found that the first tune they played was their own dubstep production with a 20Hz sinewave as the bassline.