PEAVEY IPR 1600

[osse]

It's pay day so I've just ordered one of these. Should be here in time to break in some drivers at the weekend.

Which model?

[88h88]

1600 seeing as the 3000 is still well over twice the price. That and I don't really need the extra power due to having a 500w QSC in the rack already.

[ripNdeb]

I just got a 3000 off of this eBay site: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Peavey-IPR3000- ... 728wt_1139 for $360 shipped.....very pleased!

[88h88]

Oh you had to go and one-up everyone, didn't you?

[88h88]

The 1600 arrived earlier and I did a wee output test on it. 60hz sine, just on the DDT light. 52v was the result, seems about right from what others have been saying in here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feo7TGQn560&

I couldn't get a pink noise signal loud enough to tickle the DDT, the PC I was running it on just wouldn't have it. Sine was not an issue.

[unsafe8989]

Subscribed Hope to see more videos of that ipr.

[88h88]

I've hooked it up to my CDJ setup at home until I can get my hands on my rack (which currently lives with my buddy) to mount it and it's verrrrrrrrry nice sounding, really crisp and clear. I was previously running a fairly nice AV amp because my CDJs were setup in front of my TV in the last house and I thought that sounded pretty good. This makes my floorstanders sound even better.

Shit I may have to buy another of these just to use as a regular ass amp as they're a bargain, just need to tone down those superbright blue LEDs. Where's the 'love' smiley? <3

[unsafe8989]

Yea for dj gigs those leds are amazing

[88h88]

Maybe, my rack will then have green, yellow, red and blue LEDs all flashing away and I am horribly OCD about such matters. I foresee a duct tape frenzy going on to cover some of the more offensive ones *cough*Peavey*cough*.

From the testing I did on it the other day and the abuse I've just introduced it to I'm more than happy with it. I need to have words to rent out that hall again and I'll get them hooked up to the T39s and see what they're capable of.

[Grant Bunter]

Are we talking about the IPR 1600 or the IPR 1600 DSP?

For not much more the DSP model seems to be better value.

According to the bay I could land a IPR1600DSP here for $470AU BIN/shipping, $20 less than the start price for a IPR 1600 Aussie listing...

[88h88]

IPR 1600 over here is £207 delivered. <-- this is what I bought.
IPR 1600 DSP is £439 delivered.

IPR 3000 is £469.
IPR 3000 DSP is £565.

Fair price difference! Dunno if that's our market being weird or the price on yours just being straight wrong. Bizarre either way.

[Grant Bunter]

I wasn't quite clear enough...
$470AU BIN and shipping from the US ebay for the 1600 DSP.
$499 starting price for 1600 (not DSP) from Ebay Australia.

Yours was quite a good price...

[Gregory East]

I am seriously considering the IRP amps as well mainly for the lower weight. Is it safe to say that I could run my 4 OT12's(deltalite 2512) off of a 1600 and my 4 T30's(4012HO) off of a 3000 with no problems.

Too much power, you'll need hard limiting. Even the 1600 can put out 55V at RMS, who knows what it can do if you really push it for an instant.

And a highpass for the subs....

As far as I can tell you only buy these for the lightweight power, not for DSP.

[88h88]

I wasn't quite clear enough...
$470AU BIN and shipping from the US ebay for the 1600 DSP.
$499 starting price for 1600 (not DSP) from Ebay Australia.

Yours was quite a good price...

Yeah I've been impressed so far. The gain knobs are horribly cheap plastic and the LED lighting is tacky as hell but I can't really argue with the performance so far.

The CD that comes with the amp has the instructions for the standard and DSP versions so I'll take a look and see what sort of control it has for EQ etc on it at some point.

[osse]

I wasn't quite clear enough...
$470AU BIN and shipping from the US ebay for the 1600 DSP.
$499 starting price for 1600 (not DSP) from Ebay Australia.

Yours was quite a good price...

Yeah I've been impressed so far. The gain knobs are horribly cheap plastic and the LED lighting is tacky as hell but I can't really argue with the performance so far.

The CD that comes with the amp has the instructions for the standard and DSP versions so I'll take a look and see what sort of control it has for EQ etc on it at some point.

Amazing ain't they?

Im especially amazed at how much abuse they can take and still sound great even in heavy DDT for long durations!

What cabs do you hook it up with?

Im measuring 55 v before DDT with 60hz sine

I think its strange, I've gotten same results with pink noise altho in my world it would yield higher signal as it covers all freqs..

I think the cheapest detail seem to be the speakon connectors in the rear

And also at the like 5 second test I tried to link channel A to channel B to be @ mono from my DRPA+ and B seemed to be at weaker signal.. hopefully this is not a thing in the box but a faulty cable or me messing up something cuz I wanna be able to link a lot of them from one mono source(bill said always drive sub cabs in mono.. how much of a difference would this actually make?)

Ive only tried them for sub business, are they crystal clear full-range?