Art Welter wrote on Wed, 18 February 2009 15:25 |
No 6000 watt amp from Peavey, here's the specs: ---clip----
If they are rated like the last Peavey amp I bought, divide by two...
Art Welter
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I shouldn't let this bother me, since I've been gone several years, but a few of my 15 years there were spent as product manager for power amps, and all were in some engineering or management capacity, so to keep this interesting (for me), I'll repeat Don's question to see if it was one of my models.
Art, which amp model was it that you bought that put out 1/2 rated power?Under my watch, every amp I am aware of sold by Peavey met rated power by a healthy margin. And I had engineering oversight into the fixed install amps too. We didn't dare cut it close because of all the snarky "professionals" sniping at us. FWIW the guitar amps were rated for power at anywhere from 3 to 5% distortion, but that is not unusual for such market segments.
I do recall several dealers and/or customers with soft bench power that lacked a major clue about what they were talking about. For a while we put Marty out on the road with a scope and load box to try to help educate the sundry unwashed but with limited success.
I can't speak for before 1985 or any of the new amps but I truly doubt Peavey was ever the liar in the power amp game.. I have heard second hand about several false rumors spread by reps from "premium" amp companies, and some still play a little fast and loose, promoting slew rate and other nonsense differentiations.
With power amps it's all about how loud for how long.
YMMV
JR