Good Amplifiers ?

[bertrum]

Hi,

I have just joined the forum so be gentle with me,

I am currently in the process of trying to purchase a Turbosound rig (4 x TXD 151, 4 x TXD 188 & 4 TXD 12m)and am am looking for suitable amplifiers to drive them, in series for FOH with 4 separate monitor mixes in a room roughly 32m x 20m . Could anyone suggest some quality amps (with some headroom also)? The application is mainly for band reinforcement.

My budget will be about 11k and will need to include adequate cabling (20m) for the speakers too.

Any help appreciated.

[Matt Riley]

With that kind of budget, I'd say look at a Camco Vortex 6 for the 4 TXD 151 tops, a Vortex 6 for the 4 TXD 118subs, and a couple of Tecton 24.4 for the mons. We have got 5 or 6 pairs of the Txd 12m in stock and they work very well powered by the above tecton. The V6 mentioned above is a workhorse, and both amps should provide more than enough power for your FOH speakers. Working from list prices, that adds up to £9787.75 inc vat. I'm sure all good sound companies would be willing to negotiate on prices, and you'll probably find them cheaper on Thomann anyway!

 

In terms of headroom, the V6 will be working at 2100W per channel, and the Tecton is 700W at 8 ohms per channel, which seems to be fine for what we're using them for.

 

That should leave you with more than enough to spare getting some decent VDC cables for the whole thing - although I'd check them once they arrive if I were you, recently an organisation with which I'm associated had some serious issues with the QC of large batches of cables bought from them. Also don't forget flitecases and, if you haven't thought about it already, system control.

 

Oh, and you normally drive speakers in parallel, not series btw!

 

Matt

[bertrum]

Great, thanks for your help, I will have a look over some spec sheets for them now, and check out some prices.

Duely noted about the Van Damme cables, I'll watch out for that.

Sorry got my terminology mixed up (oops) I meant I'd be running them in parallel !

 

Thanks again :)

[Trunker]

Crown amps, Crest amps, Cloud amps or QSC amplifiers are very good. make sure what ever amp you buy has got DC protection and circuitary proctection on them to avoid 'blowing' anything up.

[soundo26]

Lab Gruppen or MC2 are very good amps if you have a decent budget!!

[bertrum]

Great,

thanks very much to the new posters, I will be looking in to some other amplifiers before making any final decisions