Has anyone ever heard of this brand? SounDigital (amps)

They are pretty good !

Oh yeah, i've heard of them alright. I've seen quite a few release the magic smoke too

They had a lot of hype on the forum about six months ago, they are nothing special.

I was thinking about running one of their big amps. Either the 12K or 16K. Debating on that or four SAZ 3000 or 3500's.

I do not like them and i could try and explain why but that would turn into a very long and drawn out debate that i dont feel like getting into.

It's the same principle about how the Stetsoms are which i dont like either.

For all the technical history and all that, i would get ahold of snoopdan as he knows more about the tech than i do. He could get more down in depth of why we don't like em.

Basically, anybody can say what they want, even the owner of the company, but the point is these amps should not be used and\or expected to be used for longterm musical applications and capable of outputting the power that they are rated for.

I've talked to 2 different electrical engineers about it as well back when SounDigital was all hype back then. You shouldnt try and get 8,000w out of a single run of cable.

When things like this get brought up, there is always comments like-

Well people don't listen to music that loud so you won't ever run our amps like that or...

Music is dynamic so there's nothing to worry about...

the fact is people DO listen to music that loud, lots of music people listen to have solid tones in them for several seconds or even constantly!

For a single run of cable, voltage drop will occur with that much power on their high powered amps.

Why do u think that a competitor that ran several of there 12k amps made a connection system to run 8 runs of power and 8 runs of ground PER amp!

Now why would you need to modify the amp's inputs just to get steady stable voltage input? And that's just for burping, i'm not even on constant use.

Just let an electrical engineer look at the specs and ask him if he would feel confortable trying to run that much power even for a few seconds with a single run of cable.

Sure fusing will be there but expect some voltage drop issues to occur.

For all the technical history and all that, i would get ahold of snoopdan as he knows more about the tech than i do. He could get more down in depth of why we don't like em.

Srlsy? We have to ask someone else why you don't like them? ROFL

yep, because i'm not an engineer and i cant explain the details inside if asked as i have been before.

Shit, maybe I'll just stick with 4 SAZ-3000's or 3500's.