[Scott Dorsey]

Dave O'Heare wrote:
Folks, my old (somewhat) faithful Stewart PA200 died on me last night. I
hooked it up, it worked, passed audio, all was good. During the event audio
started dropping out, then stopped completely, then loud oscillation (on
one channel, nothing on the other). I fought my way through the moshing
crowd at the retirement residence where it was set up for the PA announce
mic, noted that unmistakeable smell of escaped magic smoke, and powered the
whole works off.

I am not a fan of these amps, they seem very underdesigned to me.

Are there any options for ~100W power amps in a small form factor? I'd
really rather not cart around the size and weight of a full-width rack
mount power amp. It doesn't even have to be stereo, really, but I do want
something with reasonably standard connections (TRS/TS, XLR, Speakon,say;
not barrier strip, euroblock) and (hopefully) relatively easily available
in Canada.

If you can survive with a 1U amp, Ashley makes or made a great one. And
there is always a used Crown D75... they don't sound very good but they are
rock solid and will likely outlast all of us.

If you want smaller than 1U you have to make some big sacrifices. Other
than consumer class-D amps there aren't that many choices although folks
like Radio Systems make a few.
--scott

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