New Puma from Tecamp

[pewi]

Have you seen this, Tecamp introduced 3 new Pumas at the Musikmesse Frankfurt. They are ultra small and very light, 300, 500 and 900 Watt Models !!

Musikmesse 2011 News – TecAmp Raptor und neue Pumas

[MysticMichael]

Cool. Now if only I could read German...

MM

[Hellbastard]

Nice stuff. The Raptor seems interesting.I wonder how much it weights. 300 Watts full tube and only 25 units that's gotta be nice.

[schnatzbass]

Originally Posted by Hellbastard

Nice stuff. The Raptor seems interesting.I wonder how much it weights. 300 Watts full tube and only 25 units that's gotta be nice.

The Raptor is 55Ibs, that's around 25kg.

[OldogNewTrick]

ist jemand auf der MuMe gewesen ?

Pictures would be nice ....

[Hellbastard]

Wow, that's really light for a 300 watt Tube head. Too bad it's a limited run.And knowing Tecamp prices, it won't be cheap.

[OldogNewTrick]

Originally Posted by MysticMichael

Cool. Now if only I could read German...

MM

The only worthwhile message in that advert is:

New Puma is only 1 RU high.

[vision]

Looks great! Here's the text from the ad translated into English (my Chrome browser automatically translated.)

Music Fair 2011 News - TecAmp Raptor and new Pumas
The 25th Anniversary - which we at this point, of course, want to congratulate sincerely - can not splash out TecAmp and brings together the Raptor Vollröhrentop matching box is the ultimate predator bass to the start - and that too limited to all 25 pieces! The preamp provides no less than 5 double triodes for an incredibly detailed sound and a powerful amplifier 6550 Sextet for the power of 300 watts tube. Active 4-band EQ, transformer balanced DI output, and the lizard leather are other highlights of this bass dream. The appropriate box is also covered with lizard skin and, with their 1 × 15, 1 × 12 and 2 × 10 assembly use the whole bandwidth and thus the ideal complement to Raptor.


The Basstops Puma 300, Puma 500 and Puma 900 were again reduced its offer rate of 300, 500 or 900 watts now in just one rack unit. Tried and tested as the 4-band EQ, the button control is of course still available

[vision]

Originally Posted by OldogNewTrick

The only worthwhile message in that advert is:

New Puma is only 1 RU high.

The Puma 900 mentioned is also pretty interesting...900 watts in one rack space? If that is mono into 4 ohms I'll be all over it...

[schnatzbass]

the Puma 900 is 900 W bridged into 4 ohms and 2 x 450 into 2 ohms.

[vision]

Originally Posted by schnatzbass

the Puma 900 is 900 W bridged into 4 ohms and 2 x 450 into 2 ohms.

Gotcha...so is this a replacement for the Puma 1000?

[schnatzbass]

no, they still offer the 1000 with compressor, bass and treble boost and the Bonafide with its 2 channels.

[KJung]

I was able to try the prototype of the 500 watt version a while back. It was still in the older, larger box, but had the new B&O ICE power module they are moving to. Due to the ICE power amp running cooler than the original Powersoft class D power amps, they were able to make the boxes quite a bit smaller.

IMO, it sounded really good, but lost a little bit of the 'Puma magic' that my original Pume500 has... that super creamy, super deep voicing with the amazing hi fi top end. The good news (for some) is, they did bring in the low end a bit and the mids have the more characteristic warmth/distortion that seems to exist with all the ICE driven micro's, so the perceived volume was a bit higher than the very wide and smooth original Puma500.

For those in the US who don't want to pay the massive price for these, I was able to get my Markbass F500 to sound virtually identical to the 'new Puma500' by engaging the VPF filter (and enhance type circuit that widens the low end, attenuates the lower mids, and extends the upper treble) at around 9 o'clock... virtually identical tone.

So, in the EU, these look like they are a nice step in the right direction and should be killer. In the US, IMO there are similarly great units for a fraction of the price.

The 900 watt version seems cool, but I would want to make sure it 'stayed cool' on the gig... that is a lot of power/heat to cram into that little box with each side of the dual mono design running at 2ohms. Very little interest there for me personally.


Edit: My comments above assume that they carried through with the prototype design. This company has been a bit 'all over the board' with design updates and prototypes, so things might have changed again. The best info I have though is that the prototype I had for a few months was representative of the new models.

[impactwrench]

"die Power von 300 Röhrenwatt"

man that sounds cool. whatever it means.

[moretolife]

Does anyone have accurate updated info in english?

[mattyiop]

This looks nice but I also wonder about a 1U running dual 2ohm loads