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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 31034" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Behringer iNUKE NU6000 amplifier&nbsp;JR doesn&#039;t know...&nbsp; I haven&#039;t worked at Peavey for ten years. It looks like JD (Bennet) has embraced the digital side and I have read the same mostly good reports about the smaller model everybody else has. Knowing how Peavey operates these are targeting a very good price proposition with good reliability and good performance. The public excuse is parts availability, and there may be some truth to that, there may also be some other truth involving scalability of the technology to higher power points, or who knows what? Technology developed for general consumer use is typically much lower power than professional audio. I recall some early meetings with other digital amp technology vendors decades ago, who were incredibly naive about actual operating needs and environment. It is generally bad advice to rush new unfinished high power amplifier designs into production (think Crown), so if they are still tweaking on it, that shows good judgement and remarkable restraint. Knowing the market demand for these I suspect any humans in the critical path stopping these from shipping will have a hot poker up their tender parts. I don&#039;t know and don&#039;t really want to know... not my job mon... JRPS: many moons ago I developed and sold a cute power amp (AMR PMA 70+) with 35W continuous and 100W+ transient power. My plans were to scale this up to multiple higher power points, but the economics just didn&#039;t work out. I don&#039;t think they are caught in a similar trap, but there could be some sticky issues scaling the digital technology up to higher voltage/current switching devices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 31034, member: 126"] Re: Behringer iNUKE NU6000 amplifier JR doesn't know... I haven't worked at Peavey for ten years. It looks like JD (Bennet) has embraced the digital side and I have read the same mostly good reports about the smaller model everybody else has. Knowing how Peavey operates these are targeting a very good price proposition with good reliability and good performance. The public excuse is parts availability, and there may be some truth to that, there may also be some other truth involving scalability of the technology to higher power points, or who knows what? Technology developed for general consumer use is typically much lower power than professional audio. I recall some early meetings with other digital amp technology vendors decades ago, who were incredibly naive about actual operating needs and environment. It is generally bad advice to rush new unfinished high power amplifier designs into production (think Crown), so if they are still tweaking on it, that shows good judgement and remarkable restraint. Knowing the market demand for these I suspect any humans in the critical path stopping these from shipping will have a hot poker up their tender parts. I don't know and don't really want to know... not my job mon... JR PS: many moons ago I developed and sold a cute power amp (AMR PMA 70+) with 35W continuous and 100W+ transient power. My plans were to scale this up to multiple higher power points, but the economics just didn't work out. I don't think they are caught in a similar trap, but there could be some sticky issues scaling the digital technology up to higher voltage/current switching devices. [/QUOTE]

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