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Old Croc Joined: 03 April 2006 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 1552 |
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Posted: 30 March 2007 at 9:30am |
hi peeps, thomann have brought out a new range of digital amps the biggest ones specs are:
the t.amp D3400, digital amplifier class D, 19" 1He, 2x 1700W / 4 Ohm, 2x 3350W / 2 Ohm, sym. XLR inputs, Speakon Out, depth 50cm, Gewicht 9,5Kg http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tamp_d3400.htm |
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Old Croc Joined: 30 September 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3667 |
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Could of made them look abit more funky !
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Insomnia
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looks desgined around the Powersoft stuff- might have a few heating issues considering its only 1U- but i may be intereted myself for hires esp at that price!
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Would be interesting to see the technical specs.
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Static Age
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how do you calculate how many watts this amp puts out running three 8ohm cabs per channel in parallel, ie at 2.66 ohm per channel?
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Lyndon A
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If that output is true, then its quite incredible. The 2ohm wattage rating is practically double the 4 ohm rating! Not many amps can do that. It would give about 850w RMS to each 8 ohm driver.
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jethrocker
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I guess that digital amps don't have the same losses as energy is transformed to heat in the output stages as normal transistor amps..just a guess mind..thoughts anyone?
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Disco Stu
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Yeah I would take that with a pinch of salt, as rog says good amps should almost be able to double their power from 8 ohms to 4, but only the best amps can double from 4 to 2.
Not even the Voids do, so I cant see how thomann have performed such a miracle, if it is its with a high distortion percentage. Stu |
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Jay Lawless
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you are correct if i'm not mistaken on that, Jeth. Digital amps don't have as much heat problems as other amps and really is based about it's design. Like Crown's i-Tech amps, Crown perpusly designed them to do about the same output in 4ohm as it does in 2ohm. they wanted to keep an "about" same voltage pull on all settings or someting like that. i can't intirely remember anymore but i did email them some time ago and it was something along those lines.
other amps are just designed diffrent ways, this one being a fine example.
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tb_mike
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It would be nice to have some independant testing done to compare a few,but this almost never happens.
But what does it matter if the output is 10% less than stated in terms of SPL. |
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Peter Moller
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FWIW: It looks like some of the amps that Steinigke also sells.. If these are the same, you are looking at a chinese built ( and designed? ) product.. Some of the djs here bought them and have had no problems with them except the need for a 32 amp feed for it to perform properly..
I have a couple of issues with these things though:
Price: Conventional amps are cheaper to build, fewer things to go wrong but they do weigh quite a lot..
IMO: If you dont need light weight, get a good old conventional design and save some money.. If you do need light weight and high power - look at something else..
Keep in mind that I have not had my hands on this thing, just looking at chinese switching amps in general..
/peter
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ArthurG
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I see Thoman is another Kobble OEM customer (after DAP, BST and many others) :
http://www.kobble-digital.com/products/index.asp?productSort=195 well what to say... good points are direct low price, 1U and 9,5kg. that's all. it's a bad copy of Powersoft with low cost components, poor reliability, lot of noise, not stable under 2 ohms and advertised power is headroom not RMS (SMPS power supply cannot sustain more than 1500W per channel)... |
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