Amplifiers Rescue Gods

Modern amplifiers with dynamic headroom do not burn drivers, quite the opposite. I have been running this type of amps since i first purchased LG PLM’s back in 2007, and in all that time and 1000’s of events have NEVER burned a driver. Not one.

Your post also displays a complete misunderstanding of how such amplifiers behave- they don’t jump in output when they feel like it, this would require gain to jump around, which is does not. What the peak power does enable is for the amplifier to more accurately track the music and improve efficiency in both amplification and loudspeakers.

In term, this also reduces trucking requirements, raw material requirements, energy use and carbon footprint, all of which are increasingly important in today’s world 

Am i alone? I don't think i am….

Sure, failures still happen, but compared with when I started out 30 years ago, the failure rate is FAR FAR smaller

Unless you are calling me a liar?

That's what i'm saying...if you use DSP,DBX,Limiters bla bla bla you can use any fking crap chinese amplifiers if you wish,they won't blow a single driver,but the quality of sound is damn crap,how comes that i never used limiters and craps on my Pa and i never blow nothing,not a single amp,not a single driver,you know why?? BECAUSE I WELL KNOW MY DAMN STUFF AND HOW TO USE IT simple as that,i don't need limiters,dsp-s and craps to do that for me,I'm a damn Electronics Engineer,not a cable pulling guy that only knows to plug things there and there,i make the things to work as i want to,and i don't have any problems with that. Obviously people with low knowledge of what there doin they need all sorts of craps and help to make something to work without the magic smoke to be present.

All my industry contracts with a combined 1000’s year’s experience and countless degrees (i myself am in that list) must be wrong

All those golden ear £500 a day mix engineers must be deaf

All those company owners who chose to invest in new technology must be wrong

And you must be right!

But just a moment, no professionals avoid new and advantageous technologies, no tours are going out with ancient, inefficient, heavy and inconsistent amp racks and no manufacturers involved in the professional sector are still making these products- BECAUSE there is NO demand

Now, don’t get me wrong, ive no issues with people wanting to repair, revere or use heavy iron amps, in fact a good friend of mine does just that, but i do have a BIG problem when people come on here spouting absolute nonsense and claiming it to be the truth. On a technical forum where people look for advice.

I also have a problem when people make assumptions about my knowledge, let me assure you that im no “cable puller“ 

And I'm still not exactly how you come to the conclusion that an amplifier that is burst rated and designed to deliver dynamic power is less linear than an amplifier with 30-70V rails that will hit clip at a much lower SPL for a given dynamic range? The amplifier that can deliver the peaks without hitting the buffers is more linear to the source, and that is NOT the heavy iron amp.

As to limiters and DSP, well limiters have been employed since the birth of large scale re-enforcement, they were using them at woodstock. DSP is simply a more modern tool to replace the less linear and worse sounding analogue crossovers and EQ units of the past. Trust me, if system engineers decades ago had today’s technology they would have used it in a heartbeat.

So, by all means keep up your fine work restoring technology of the past, and if you prefer it, then that’s absolutely fine too, thats your prerogative. BUT don't tell me that I and countless other professionals all around the world are idiots for moving with the times.