I don't recall where I said that "all" analog amps sound great with their power sections driven into heavy clipping.
It seems we went through this wattage thing a couple of months ago. ... there is no limiter circuit as there is in most digital amps so the power section of the VT Bass head is running wide open. It was designed so that even if the amp is run to the point of clipping it will behave like an overdriven tube amp and this increases your usable power. Just like a Marshall 100 watt tube guitar amp is rated at 100 watts clean it can run at 200 watts when distorted.
I don't believe I said a Digital or class D amp had any inherent problem. It was more of an explanation of the difference between a conventional solid state power amp and one that is using a switching power supply. ...We chose to use our power amp because ...It is not a PA amp with a limiter circuit in it. This is why it can deal with the peaking transients that a bass guitar will produce.
The difference between an analog amp and a digital amp in terms of power is that a digital amp cannot exceed it's rated output as digital distortion is completely unusable. This is why digital amps have built in limiters.
Tech21 website said:
Equipped with 300 analog watts, these heads will turn yours. The difference is that analog watts are real world power output (RMS) with peak transients typically twice as high. Class D wattage is generally quoted at the peak transient number, say 500 watts, but in reality, one is playing at about half that for most of the gig.
Can you maybe understand where I'd get the idea that you are trying to get consumers to buy into the idea that "analog" doesn't suffer from all the failings of "solid state", and that the complaints people have traditionally had about solid state, your company is now trying to pin on "digital"?
Does it not bother you to know that most solid-state
analog amps also contain limiters?
Most amps used for sound reinforcement applications are designed for full range systems and are not designed for guitar or bass amplification specifically. Full range systems by their very nature will not work well with any amplifier that is clipping whether it be solid state, tube or digital. You will more than likely fry the high frequency drivers. We don't build our cabs with tweeters for this very reason.
What on earth does that have to do with your
amp versus others?
Not to keep dragging QSC into this but my point was more about why to get the same SPL and coverage out of similar sets of speakers the cabs that are using digital amps seem to require more power than their analog counterparts.
You have not demonstrated any such thing. I'm sorry, you just haven't. You also haven't shown what your point had to do with QSC versus any other brand--including Tech21. If you want to make a valid point, you have to compare apples with apples, and eliminate variables.
Here's what a reasonably credible claim from Tech21 could sound like: "our specially designed power section sounds powerful and musical when driven into clipping, unlike many other solid state amps". Reading that, I would be very interested in checking out your amp, and maybe buying it.
But all this other business about your
analog rocket monster and how it is different because it doesn't have a limiter
"like digital amps do" is extremely misleading, and a huge turnoff.
Stick with the credible, we'll respect you in the morning.
) doesn't mean the product is crap. A lot of the talk here seems to be getting taken as "this amp is bad", when I think it's actually "this amp could be very popular if only..." .
