Well, now that I am in Germany I have to figure out some amplification for my XXXs.  I left the Peavey 2600s back in the states because they were 120V models and I really didn't feel like coblling up the transformer leads to change them over to 230V....  Also, while good amplifiers, they had loud ass fans and did not really make as much power as I think they should.  Anyway, now I have to decide on what to buy.  I was looking at a pair of the 1000 watt Dayton rack mount subwoofer amplifiers, a pair of them would be pretty cheap and they have selectable input voltage, 120/240 volt, so they would work fine.  My only thought is, they just might not be enough power, and I am not really convinced they are 1000 watts RMS each, even if they are, that still might not be enough....  I am not 100% sure of this, I still might choose them...  But, I also found a proaudio amp from Crown that really looks nice.  It is the XTI400, it is about 1200 watts RMS per channel @ 4 ohms, it has a switchmode multi-voltage supply also, so I can plug it in pretty much anywhere in the world, and has onboard DSP features like crossovers and EQ and has a variable speed cooling system that is supposedly inaudible at lower playback and heat levels....  It also weighs about 18 pounds...  But, it is expensive, retail is about $1600, I have found it online for as low as $800, Parts express has it for $960, or about $1000 with shipping...

Anyone else have any other thoughts?

Buying anything over here from the states in a local shop is very expensive, so forget that...

Now....don't call me from that liberal pro-homo sausage country again drinkin a beer and eating a weinerschnitzel bitchin about how I ain't paying attention to you........

with your fucked up german green trousers and shit.......
Don't make me get all photoshop on your ass.....


Wow....how funny will that look....

OMFG!  You dumb bastard!  That is the funniest thing so far.....

check it now....Marz fixed it for me.heheheheh...

Hey peckersmacker.....while you were on the toilet laughing about my myspace page....you and Sta-C forgot to hit the button to add me......fagpole....

ADD A BROTHA.........

Acurus lines were sold through Klipsch with some of the more modern line of speakers for 2 channel or HT.

I never heard one......The newer lines of Klipsch can be bright as hell with mediocre SS receivers. So I would think these amps are voiced a little more mellow to chill out the hot top end...that's a guess....

You may want to try it on your main towers to see how it fares. It should be a rather clean sounding subwoofer amp, nonetheless.

You may still have some headroom for a good peak or transient from a movie or whatever.

It would seem those big 18's could just lope along at idle and still mow you down when required. I dunno....

I remember when the local audio buddy Dan came across various SS power amps.
He had a nice Phillips lab series power amp once or the like, 400 watts or something.

"Gee Dan, that would be a rather nice subwoofer amp for my SVS toilet paper tube slopwoofers, you wanna sell it to me?"

That almost pissed him off. "You ain't gonna waste a nice amp like this on any subwoofers.....grumble..grumble.....you can get on eBay and bid for it if you want to do that..."

Really, he needed the cash, and knew I didn't have it....

I just turned on my SVS subs. They are 4 ohms, connected in stereo with roughly 60 watts per side. Plenty loud enough for me. I live in a crummy trailer, however.

The combination of Lascala and SVS when cranked up bit puts the whole place into resonant convulsions. About 2-3 watts on the mains, and maybe 20 on the subwoofers.....

I didn't think the SVS subwoofers would blend very well with the horn bass. It doesn't really seem that bad. I have the subs set at 40Hz and down.

Once of these days I'll get a better amp.

OK, so I have been listening to this for about a month now.  

The sound is fantastic coming out of that amp.  I definetly sounds better than it did with the Peaveys, but I have to be carefull saying that being in a totally different house....  Regaurdless, the sound is very, very good.  The amp runs relitively cool, I haven't really given it a workout yet like I would give the Peaveys back in the day...

One the other hand, I really do miss the headroom and sheer output of 5Kw.  The 400 wpc right now isn't all that much less, it just isn't exactly what I had hoped for....

Sooooo, I think I may have a solution....  My XXX are dual 2 ohm, so that precludes running most home amps....  But, I really would like to double my power, but stick with the home amps...  So here is my idea...  I think I will buy an additional a250, so I have twice the power, and either see if I can change the primary winding to drop the rail voltage about 10-15% so it won't exceed the current limitations of the output stage at 2 ohms per channel, or just buy a set of new power trannies (Maybe $90-100 each for 1kw toroids) with secondary voltage about 10-15% lower than what is in it now.  That way I would have a pair of 800-900 watt ampliers that should be able to handle 2 ohms per channel, we'll see, I still have alot of thinking to do....  

I just have a big space in my equipment rack right now begging to be filled with another amp....

That is one of my concerns....

BUT, I just found out that I can get dual 4 ohm recones, so that might be a smarter way to go about it really....

We'll see what happens, I'm really not in a big hurry right now anyway....