Conference napalm::guitar

291.0. "Audio Media Research" by COUGAR::JACQUES () Mon Jul 13 1987 10:39

    
    	In my quest to find a decent power amp for the P.A. system
    I'm putting together, I have had many dissapointments. I've been
    to many music stores, and have found most everything was out of
    my price range. I have been looking for a power amp with at least
    100 watts per side for around $300. Everything seemed to be in the
    $500 and up range. This weekend I checked out Fitchburg music and
    ended up buying an AMR PMA200 amp. AMR is a company that is owned,
    I believe, by Peavey. They mainly make recording eqiupment, including
    multitrack cassette recorders, mixers, monitors, microphones, and
    the power amp. They also offer phantom power supplies for cardiode
    microphones, and headphone distribution boxes. I noticed that they
    have been advertising in Guitar player for the last several months.
    
    	The amp is a stright forward stereo power amp. It has unbalanced
    1/4" phone jack inputs, (no balanced inputs unfortunately), and dual
    binding post speaker outputs. The front panel has an attenuator
    for each channel. A totem pole type led level indicator for each
    channel. DDT (compression circuiit) indicators. You can defeat the
    DDT by pulling the attenuators out. It is of course 19" rack mountable.
    It is rated at 100 watts rms continuous at 8 ohms with less than
    .008% distortion. The amp weighs 29 pounds, which isn't too bad
    for carrying. I plan to have everything mounted in one rack weighing
    less than 60 pounds. It will be lighter to move than my Twin Reverb
    which I believe weighs about 80 pounds with the JBL speakers in
    it.
    
    	I paid $329.oo for the unit, but didn't bother to dicker with them
    about the price.
                     
    	I now have a somewhat complete system consisting of a Peavey
    701R mixer, Alesis Midiverb II multieffects unit, and the AMR PMA200
    power amp. I hooked up everything to my Klipsch KG4 stereo speakers
    and let er rip this weekend. Now I can appreciate the stereo effects
    capability of the Alesis MidiverbII. The power amp sounds extremely
    clean, as was promised by Dave Rivers, of Fitchburg Music, and ran
    fairly cool considering it runs without a fan. I plan to stick a
    small boxer fan in the rack later for stage use, but they don't
    recommend using one for recording since it makes for too much 
    extraneous noise.
                       
    	Anybody else out there have any experiences with AMR products?
    If so, I would appreciate hearing if your happy with them or not.
                                
    
    						Mark Jacques
    						LM02/Marlboro, Ma.
    
                                                                  

    I have a PD4 headphone distribution box and am very pleased. It's
    well made, has a mono/stereo switch, and allows 4 sets of phones
    to be used simultaneously. A must for multitracking. And it's only
    45 bucks.
    
    Yup, Peavey owns AMR.