Pro vs. Consumer Equipment


One of the best set-ups I ever heard was a Crown preamp feeding a McIntosh amp driving a custom built cabinet featuring JBL professional speakers. I've also read quite a bit about professional cables being a lot less expensive and just as good as consumer cables. Earlier today, D911 posted a thread on the professional ART SL-1 power amp.

Across the board, these professional solutions seem to be very high quality at a much lower price point than the consumer equipment. So what's your experience? How many of you are running professional equipment in your set-ups? What are some great recommendations? Does this work better with some kinds of music than with others? Thanks in advance.
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Showing 1 response by marakanetz

Professional poweramps usually great at higher than home volumes. Class D often used in pro poweramps is designed to feed tremendous power with small heat dissipation losses but brings very large distortions at low volume levels.

Bryston and Manley do manufacture professional poweramplifiers but they're realy created as home amp and t certainly costly. Some small venues however do acquire those for small amplifications of voice with unamplified instruments.

Can't tell anything for preamp domain but I guess it designed basically to the same basically to give out as much output voltage as possible for poweramp driving stages.

I however stand for pro-grade wires that are very inexpencive for interconnects and speakers as well with no compromise for those in "nice snakes" or even better(especially if stripped to see wires inside). I now use two runs of 14AWG Carroll Command for bi-wired setup which is a killer wire with silver-plated cooper strands.