Using Professional Amps On Home Theater Speakers
If your budget for the amps is $10K, why not get two Krell TAS amps and have $3-4K left over? Also, there was a used Theta Dreadnaught at 5 X 200 watts for sale earlier this week. These aren't that great for 2-channel (which you don't care about anyway), but getting two of those dreadnaughts should put you out about $5,000 total for 10 channels at 200 watts into 8 ohms each. Having a son who is into DJing I have a little (tiny) bit of experience with the types of amps you are referring to. They do fine for their intended purpose, but they are usually "loud" - not just from the fans. They seem to have a greater tendency toward buzzing, humming, etc. . . But those could all be grounding issues. But that would be one of my concerns. But you could certainly get a stack rack for a bunch of those amps and have them all take up just a few square feet of space. I think most of the current "professional" amps of today are class D and have gotten surprising cheap (which tells us all alot about the "real" value of most class D amps and what it really costs to build them!). One thing you will need to address with these amps is the types of speaker connectors offered. Many professional amps only offer 1/4" or neutric speaker connections and many also just accept balanced inputs. Both do have real work-arounds, but something to keep in mind. Go to your local Guitar Center and talk to some of the guys there for more experienced input on this. |
. My room is 70 feet long, 22 feet wide with a 22 foot high ceiling. My Room With The Screen Rolled Up My Room With The Screen Rolled Down As you can see, this room is much larger than most conventional home theaters, hence the inquiry into a commercial application. Of course the Kappa 9 were intended to be used as front main two-channel speakers, I've just happened to have managed to accumulate four pairs of them over the past ten years and wish to put them to good use in my home theater since I already have them on hand. . |
