Levinson 33 Archaic????

I guess that's why all the Grateful Dead shows I went to sounded sooooo good. A stadium event using McIntosh Amps. I wonder what all the other bands use...that would be an interesting thread.

Ellery

Dunno what amplification Brittney Spears uses, but apparently that rack pales in comparison to the sheer size and weight of her rack of harmonizers.

Did i just let a post slip by involving Brittney Spears and Racks without a less than civil remark?

i must be tired.

Actyally, the 33 is the best sounding, most neutral amp I have heard. I enjoy the sound of many great tube amps, but can't say that any are as neutral. The 33 seems to have less of a sonic signature than any amp I have heard, and it is significantly smoother and more relaxed than the 33h.

120V/15A=1800W. Add enough capacitance to the power supply and you can have brief instances of more power. Add a big trani and it will store some power in the the form of magnetic fields.

These are very short term and limited resources beyond the 1800W coming in. Given that linear (not switching class D) amps are usually 50%-75% efficient, the amp is limited to 900W-1300W max in ideal conditions for sustained power output. A 20A circuit improves this another 25%. A 220V/30A circuit might be able to help an amp produce a sustained 5000W into small loads, maybe (4000W is probably the real world limit). And all that assumes some fairly high mass Robust Heat sinking, and high current caps, because 4000W is cooking.

Measurements are only as good as the specifications for those measurements thmeselves. Given a brief enough measurement period, the power output could appear to be almost infinite into a short circuit.