Re: Two Bose 802 questions
Yup, QSC gets credit for beginning the slide down the slippery slope from continuos duty. The bottom line was you can remove copper, and iron, and aluminum, and devices, while still advertising the same top line power output number. For the vast majority of customers who weren't driving high duty cycle applications, the amps seemed to work as well as their heavier brethren, while costing a bunch less.
Peavey could not afford to ignore cheaper competition, and responded with the old PV series. When I got involved as product manager a little later after that I added some output devices back into the bigger PV amp, that was a borderline hand grenade, but the custumer is always right and they embraced low duty cycle amps with both arms.
The rest is history.
JR
[edit- the CS series did not get gutted, but using the same philosophy the CS amps had the current limiting opened up to support 2 ohms loads.. so more power from same platform. [/edit]
