"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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Just surfed www.overstock.com and found the following:
Crown CE4000 power amp $1013.00
http://www.hookedontronics.com/show_...b=Crown_CE4000
$65 more
I'll bet money it has a fan.
Crown CE1000A3 power amp $417.00
Yep.
http://www.jacksmusicstore.com/home?...tegory=manu f
Just $5 more.
I'll bet money it has a fan.
Alesis RA 500 power amp $298.00
Yep.
http://www.allprosound.com/catalog/p...asp?fprodid=45
just $19 more
Convection cooled.
They brag up its RA100 heritage. I have a few RA100s in service, and while
they sound fine, they had some funny situations with connectors. The input
and output connectors were both phone jacks, and could be fairly easily
confused.
Alesis RA300 $224.00
http://www.northernsound.net/Sales/P...lesisamps.html
is $55 more, so this is the best deal of the bunch in terms of percent
discount.
Convection cooled.
Is anyone familiar with these amps?
I know Crown used to be highly regarded, are they still well thought of?
Yes. They sort of smudged up their reputation with the DC300, but that was
many decades ago.
Alesis is a company I know I've heard of and thought they went
out of business, can't remember much about what sort of quality.
They are back in business as a subsidiary of Numark, the cheapo-cheapo DJ
equipment company. Alesis has a long reputation as a source for
bottom-feeders, Probably the best product they ever had was the ADAT, and
it was the replacement of the ADAT with the DAW that put them on the skids
a few years ago.