Other than the faceplate and marketing, does anyone know if there are quality differences in the actual amplifier sections of these amps? Many of the specs are identical.
http://www.crownaudio.com/amps.htm
http://www.crownaudio.com/amps.htm
I believe they're all the same.
One of them is for theater installs with THX certification and JBL cinema tunings built in, another has 70 volt outputs so presumably there is a transformer in there, and the last is the barebones XTi.
The CDi has a 70 volt option via the software that applies a 70hz high pass filter using the crossovers. I never opened one up to see if there were any physical internal differences.
The cdi and dci software is set up to deal with PEQs in a slightly nicer fashion...at least it was on the firmwares about a year ago when i looked at them.
If i remember right the xti does not have type-able q or bw...you had to use the cursor... Were as the dci and cdi you could type in the parameters.
The CDi has a 70 volt option via the software that applies a 70hz high pass filter using the crossovers. I never opened one up to see if there were any physical internal differences.
All the weights are exactly the same, so there is no way there are any transformers in there.
The DSi does have some fancy 15-pin thing for theater management, but that's all I can see.
The CDi has a 70 volt option via the software that applies a 70hz high pass filter using the crossovers. I never opened one up to see if there were any physical internal differences.
All the weights are exactly the same, so there is no way there are any transformers in there.
The DSi does have some fancy 15-pin thing for theater management, but that's all I can see.
Silas,
The spec sheet on Crown's site does indicate that the CDi has 70V operation.
Edit, and the CDi is half a pound heavier.
I would guess this is done by simply adjusting the amplifier voltage rails to 70V... a method employed by the CTs series as well?