praise for the power block

[jeremy]

before playing a gig tonight the singer called me up and said he couldnt get his pa system. no worries, ill grab mine. except i forgot that i didnt have the power amp as i left it at a club last week and hadnt had time to pick it up.
so i grab the only power i had around, a crate power block. i was VERY concerned that it wouldnt have enough juice and would sound weak.
i ran four 8 ohm cabs (two mains and two mons) and it came thru with flying colors. it was a small club so there was no sub and only the vox were going thru the pa but it sounded pretty darn good and didnt blow up!!

best $200 ive spent recently

 

[Xeromus]

Re: praise for the power block

Looks like it performs as advertised AND was a handy little backup after all.

 

[tone4days]

Re: praise for the power block

yeah, they are gonna sell a boat load of those little class D wonders ... high power switching technology is getting very advanced ... i am thinking about getting one to use with my dg-stomp as a backup rig ... and if i like it enough, it might be just become my A-rig ... two guitars in a dual-gigbag and that rig in a backpack ... if i can convince my band to go with the Bose PAS i might actually enjoy playing live music again

t4d

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: praise for the power block

Jeremy, how do you like it as a guitar amp? I haven't heard them.

 

[Mephis]

Re: praise for the power block

I've heard thoes Bose guitar amps, they sound like **** to me.


Bose doesn't understand that home audio does not = Guitar amp audio.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: praise for the power block

Bose doesn't understand that home audio does not = Guitar amp audio.

I'm not so sure that Bose fully understands home audio either. Although everyone has jumped on their bandwagon.

 

[Mephis]

Re: praise for the power block

I'm not so sure that Bose fully understands home audio either. Although everyone has jumped on their bandwagon.

Some of their home stereos are nice, if you don't care about volume.


I built a 7 speaker 600watt PC stereo system, it sounds way better to me.

I've also got a bunch of EQ software to run my players through, so it sound sick.

 

[mnbaseball91]

Re: praise for the power block

Here's what I don't understand about the powerblock - the speaker outs give you the option of 150 watts mono at 8 ohms or 75 watts stereo at 4 ohms. The Crate speaker cabs are 100 watts at 8 ohms, so in theory, the only way to properly run the amp through them is to use FOUR of them. That's fine and dandy if you want to spend $800 on crappy Crate 112s, but don't you think they'd make more money catering to the people who want to use one or two of them?

 

[aleclee]

Re: praise for the power block

I've heard a lot of great things about the power block--sounds like a great value. I'd have grabbed one already but it doesn't offer enough over the GK ML250 I already have as my backup.

 

[Scott_F]

Re: praise for the power block

I'm not so sure that Bose fully understands home audio either. Although everyone has jumped on their bandwagon.

Bose definitely undestands how to make the headphones they sold me. Unbelievable signal to noise, clarity and fidelity.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: praise for the power block

I was just referring to their satellite/sub strategy. Not bad for home theater but horrendous for music.

Did you get the noise-cancelling ones, Scott?

 

[jeremy]

Re: praise for the power block

i dont use a crate cab so i cant tell ya much about that. i use a fender vibroking 2x12 with a v30/g12h-30 (very sweet) and it sounds pretty ok, much better than thru the crate cab im sure. the preamp is a mid gain type thing that cleans up pretty well when you roll back the volume. it doesnt sound bad but its ss so it doesnt feel like a tube amp but itll get ya thru a gig and you wont suffer too bad.

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: praise for the power block

I'm not so sure that Bose fully understands home audio either. Although everyone has jumped on their bandwagon.

Bose did a bang-up job with the SoundDock.

I picked now up for the 4 day stint the wife and I had when we had our son and the thing made the whole stretch totally bearable. We had it going in the delivery room and a couple of the nurses commented on how good it sounded.

It killed me to bring it back but I just can't justify $300 for something that integrates with a hard disk playback system whose life-span hasn't fully been realized yet.