Behringer, Thomann or C-Mark Amps

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I had 3 C-Audio Pulse amps at one time.

 

When Harman took them over they reissued the series with different colour casing under the Crown name then quietly dropped the range.

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The Pulse's are fine amps for mids and tops but lack the grunt for bass applications due to the early weedy switch mode power supply by modern standards. There was a mod for the PSU which fixed completely the earlier faults and you can still get it done no problem today.

 

I know of a few sound systems that still use the Pulse preferentially over anything else.

 

Another amp to be considered these days is the Tapco J2500. Very similar to the Berry amp (and obviously shares the same sort of layout as the QSC RMX series as you'd expect) but with a larger PSU. Tests indicate that of the budget amps, this seems to be the one that gives most bang for buck and they seem nice and solid.

 

As for the 606/707, there's still a lot of them out there in use and they do pack a punch, even if their rated watts are not as high as newer amps. This is because modern amps tend to get rated with short bursts which don't really give a good indication of how they'll perform on modern bass heavy music.