Crown

We're back with Crown to try to fathom the power of their I-Tech series power amplifiers at 125th AES 2008. It's their premier touring amplifier, and as such, comes with a heavy feature set.  

The Crown Macro-Tech i power amps reinvent the image of the power amp as a whole, implementing smart front panel features with LED monitoring and even non-path-invasive digital control over analog gear.  

What did the Zen Bhuddist Transcendentalist say to the hot dog vendor?

"Make me one with everything."

That was my "ohms" joke.  

Ryan Maeker is a sound designer in NYC, and though he may come off as a somewhat threatening figure in this interview -- all talking about cuttin' fools, hitting people with cars and even threatening the life of yours truly -- he's actually a total teddy bear with a soft spot for Speilberg movies!  

Crown is bringing the Macro-Tech series back as the Macro-Tech i Series thanks to their newly developed technology and a wide load of research.  

Crown's XLS series just got a whole lot bigger with the addition of the XLS series. At 5000 watts in four-ohm bridge-mono mode, it's twice as powerful than any other XLS series amp and most likely some locomotives. It's also housed in an all steel chassis and poses as a mild mannered reporter by day.  

I hope that when I'm 60, I still look as good as the Crown Macro-Tech series amplifiers which are being re-released with an anniversary edition. To do so, I'd probably have to be plated in copper as well.  

Crown claims the CM-311A is the most popular headset microphone ever made. That may or may not be true; what is definitely true about the CM311A is that it has plenty of gain-before-feedback, and it is constructed with Differoid...