
The Amplitude16 is the most versatile power amplifier ever designed to address the varying needs of your immersive home theatre.
Designed for immersive home theatres, with custom integration in mind, the Amplitude16 becomes perhaps the most versatile power amplifier available today, providing integrators with the unique ability to meet diverse channel counts and power requirements.
Power House
Effectively two eight-channel amplifiers on a single 3RU chassis, the Amplitude16 has dual power supplies, each requiring its own 15A AC mains power inlet.
Bridge to Power
In its base model, it is a 16-channel power amplifier with a power rating of 200W per channel at 8 ohms and 400W per channel at 4 ohms.
Going beyond, the Amplitude16 provides the integrator with the option to bridge pairs of amplifier channels to increase available power for specific outputs.
This enables the integrator to maximize power for the channels with the greatest demand (left, center, and right screen channels).
In bridged mode, the power increases to 800W per channel at 8 ohms and over 1000W per channel at 4 ohms.
Efficient Connectivity
The balanced analogue input is provided via dual Tascam pinout DB25 connectors, which eliminates the need for up to 16 individual XLR connections, making for a much more efficient connection and rack-dressing.
A front-panel LED display identifies normal operation, channel clipping, protection, and bridge status for each pair of channels. Trigger inputs and outputs are provided to power on the amplifier and to daisy-chain other amplifiers in the system.
Perfect companions
The input level sensitivity of the Amplitude16 matches perfectly the Altitude output level to maximize dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio.
The importance of this trait cannot be over-estimated in a theater that may have twenty or thirty speakers in a single room. If each of those speakers produces even a small amount of noise, it would rapidly become noticeable and unacceptable.
This scenario never arises with the Amplitude16.
Audio-over-IP ready
Anticipating future advanced applications, another unique feature of the Amplitude16 is its optional Audio-over-IP input board, which provides an option for connecting the amplifier with networked audio. This board includes functions for monitoring the amplifier hardware status.