Pro Amp Mods

[Charles Darwin]

With a $3000 budget I would expect to buy a pro amp that does not need any modifications besides may be a quieter fan.

Personally I use MC2 Audio amps for my active speakers and at no point did I feel like I needed to 'improve' anything on those, not even the fans.

 

[cucicu]

that are difficult to find in Italy...
so, any good brend?

i saw:

-EV (electrovoice) q99,q1212
-the t.amp
-phonic
-qsc

.....

 

[Charles Darwin]

I've bought a JBL-badged QSC-made amp once for about £200 new when JBL stopped using QSC and they needed to get rid of inventory.
It was a fairly straightforward Class AB job and all it needed to be really rather good was a quiet replacement fan.

But then my MC2 came back from servicing and I never got round to do it.

 

[cucicu]

is the mc2 T1000 good for 2 ohms?

 

[AndrewT]

that are difficult to find in Italy...
so, any good brend?

i saw:

-EV (electrovoice) q99,q1212
-the t.amp
-phonic
-qsc

.....

Do you live in Italy?
Add that to your profile.

 

[Charles Darwin]

is the mc2 T1000 good for 2 ohms?

Yes but I would think the T500 would be sufficient for home use but this me talking and I use a T500 as a treble amp. ;-)

 

[stocktrader200]

buy the pro amp case and fit extra capacitors in the power supply. then add a Honey Badger Amp.
You will not be disapointed

 

[cucicu]

I found a seller in Europe for mc2 T1000.
the t500 is not suitable for 2 ohms (reading the datasheet).

so, Charles Darwin, can you recommend it ? does it sound good for my thiel?

regards

 

[Charles Darwin]

Yes I can recommend it. If doesn't sound right I'd blame the speakers but I don't know much about Thiels other than that owners tend to really like them a lot.
If they are designed with modern amplification in mind they will sound great with MC2s.

As for the 2Ohm suitability of the T500 I suspect it would be fine driving one set of speakers which drop to 2Ohm somewhere on their impedance curve but in the environment they usually find themselves in 2Ohm capability means 4 8Ohm speakers connected in parallel and that is a whole different proposition.

 

[cucicu]

i'm considering it.
any other recommendation? the mc2 would my first choice but it is monoPCB, and it will be a little "asymmetric" putting it into a new chassis...so it would be the best finding an amp with symmetrical pcbs layout.

regards