Hi guys long time no see, or hear

Did you consider the Carvin PA800c, I just bought one and its great, it has 3 amps built in, Left, right, and mono monitor,
333 watts a channel into a 4 ohm load, which is great for small to medium gigs http://www.carvin.com/cgi-bin/Isearch.exe?PAGE=mdetail&CFG=2&P2=pa800c&P1=MXP comes with fx and a case too http://www.carvin.com/images/product/PA800C1.jpg

Frankie,

It's great that you are enjoying the amp. However, in light of this discussion, I want to point out that it only produces 200W per side using regular, 8 Ohm speakers. To get the rated 333W per side, you need to use two speakers in parallel per channel, or buy special speakers (BTW of the four suggested package deals, only one lists 4 Ohm speakers, the others are all 8 Ohm).

Regards,
Alex

True but to get a difference in volume of 3dB ( which is what most people can concieve as a little bit louder) you need to double the power, so from 200 watts to 400 watts seems a big jump for a very little amount of increase, but if you add another pair of speakers you will have 4 speakers being pushed at 166 watts which will be much more than a 3 db increase,

I was just in the same market and this seemed to be the best set-up for me anyway, its better to add speakers than to ad amplifier power for most situations

Later dudes