THT's and amplifiers

The designer doesn't recommend you mount a plate amp to the THT or any enclosure. Alot of people are making stand alone boxes for the plate amp. This is why I didn't go with a plate amp. It just seemed rigged and jimmied to me. Just my opinion, though.

Instead, I went with the EP4000. I don't have a rack, it's just sitting on top of a chest for now.

I was able to mount my plate amp on the back of my tv stand. It sits to the side of the set, is easily accessible, and is unseen while viewing. Not that it helps you much unless you have a Sony tv stand but, throwing out options/ideas.


Dude, how do those little knick knacks stay on those shelves with two THT's pounding away at them??

Ha, I should take a current pic for you. Not only did the nutcrackers fall down, both shelves pulled their anchors out of the wall. Wife has been pissed for two weeks now. Both shelves are still sitting on the floor

Airsupply....not to hijack the thread..but how did you mount your THT's ..I mean the openings..one is on the floor and the other on the top end..or are the openings close together in the middle? Does it matter...?

I just have a POS blanket sitting between them. They aren't mounted, they're just sitting there. I've abused the hell out of them and they haven't moved.

Awesome!

I wasn't clear ..I mean their mouths... are they close together or one on the floor and the other up high?

Sorry, both mouths are on the bottom if that makes sense. I was going to butt the mouths together but Bill said the mouths only needed to be within 3 feet of each other.

Kanaris, in your case i would put the bottom one upside down and the top one normal. So that the mouth appear as one. I think that would look best if your tossing them in that cubby hole where your other subs are currently.

Quaid whats so unsatisfactory about the plate amp being in its own seperate box? If you want a pro amp and want to save money shoot for the EP1500. You could run up to 4 THT's, 2 on each channel, and still have head room for EQ . Those guys just bought the EP4000 becauase they could its not needed at all. Unless your rack mounting there is going to be no advatage to have a pro amp just sitting somehwere vs a plate amp in its own nice little wooden box. Its up to you and what will make you happy.

This is what I did with my plate amp. It may not be professional, but I hope it doesn't have too much of that DIY look. Since I used scrap plywood, the cost was just the price of the amp... about $110

NCDaveD

+1. Separating the amp and receiver is begging for a ground loop. For that reason the entire concept of on-board amps is intrinsically flawed. If balanced interconnects were used throughout the system it would be no problem, but since they aren't the amp should be located as close as possible to the receiver, plugged into the same AC outlet, using the shortest possible interconnect.

+1

That is one bonus with pro amps in the signal chain. That is one reason (among many) that I like the Behringer products for EQ duty too. Everything in the chain is balanced, except for the the receiver to EQ.