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I did plug my ipod into the VA350 once, running into my Peavey 210 and 410 cabs. Went as loud as I dared. Christ, it was ridiculous.
Apologies for the continued diversion away from the topic, but here's an extract of the email from Ken, the amp tech I took it to:
Finally, I've just hooked the amp up to my signal generator and
oscilloscope, to check that she's throwing the right shapes and to
measure what kind of power she's able to put out. The shapes are good- nothing ugly or horribly unbalanced and no sign of parasitic oscillation - and the figures tot up as follows:
VA350 working into a 4 Ohm dummy load.
1kHz Sine wave injected into the Line Input and the signal generator's
amplitude increased until the VA350 reaches the threshold of clipping.At this point, the RMS AC Voltage at speaker output was measured as
39.6Power calculation goes as follows:
39.6 squared = 1568.16
1568.16 divided by the 4 Ohms of the dummy load = 392.04 Watts
Loud enough for you? ;-)
- nothing ugly or horribly unbalanced and no sign of parasitic oscillation - and the figures tot up as follows:
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Ah right. I did wonder*
I'm a guitar amp nerd too and have boxes of exotic valves and dusty tone machines from the 60s and 70s. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to stero equipment tho. I've just got the nod from Mrs Apone to install a turntable in the living room (having finally given up my CD collection as part of operation "turn-music-room-into-a-nursery". Going to buy the aforementioned amp then shop about for the turntable. Imagine i'll browse this thread.
*Although I did once provide a whole day of tunes at a rooftop barbecue with an ipod and a 1969 5w Fender Champ. It actually sounded surpsisingly good.