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Author Topic: Face Audio amplifiers for cinema? Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2009 12:41 PM                     We're specing out new equipment for a sound system upgrade. Our dealer is telling me he would like to use amplifiers from a company called Face Audio. http://www.faceaudio.com/ We have one of these amplifiers in use elsewhere in the theater but it is not being used in the cinema system. It is nice, it looks good, it sounds decent and it seems to do the job. Our dealer tells me he can get a good price. The thing is, I've never used Face Audio amplifiers before. Has anybody else heard of them or used them? What are your thoughts?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2009 01:22 PM                     It would be nice if they had a terminal strip for inputs Also they seem a little on the deep side for some of the shallower racks  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-08-2009 01:45 PM                        Stick with Ashly, Crown, and QSC. Louis  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-08-2009 02:40 PM                     I'll condense Louis' list down...stick with QSC or Lab-Gruppen. Crowns WILL fail on you and most are not great sounding. Ashley...blow way too many drivers...take it from a reconer. Steve  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-08-2009 03:46 PM                     I'll condense Steven's list down further to help you in your decision. QSC  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2009 04:00 PM                     Crest are descent as well What make and model of amps are in the permenant rig for live theatre use It might be wise to go with the same make and model if the powerpoint is right to make them interchangable in the event of a failure during a show  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2009 05:50 PM                     The amps in place now are Crest. Very old Crest. More than 12 years old. They are dropping like flies. That's why we are replacing them. When the house sound system gets replaced I am hoping to replace the cinema system too. That's why our guy is suggesting the Face Audio amplifiers. He wants to put Face in the house system and wants to make the cinema amps all the same. Like I said, we have a couple of them but they are not installed. We have them in road cases and we use them for run-outs or situations where we have to set up a sound system on short notice. They look and they seem to sound good. We have had them in use for a couple of years and we haven't had any problems. I just don't have the experience with them like I have QSC. QSC is what I have been suggesting. Unless I can come up with some concrete answers, it's probably going to be the Face Audio amps. So I suppose nobody else has any direct experience either?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-08-2009 06:20 PM                     In terms of reliability, Lab-Gruppen probably has the best name in amps right now...I can't tell you how many folks that have told me nothing but great things about them...never a bad tale. QSC is certainly a rock-solid cinema amp (DCA series) and is certainly our "standard" amp.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2009 08:09 PM                     The Lab-Gruppen look really nice! But, if the prices I looked up on the internet are any indication of the street price, my boss will have a heart attack when he sees the bill!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-08-2009 08:18 PM                     I fully agree: QSC's ..but... This situation that Randy is facing is one area that I've faced before, and it really makes one want to walk away and let them fall on their face for not taking constructive suggestions on the best products for the buck. We who are hired as in-house technicians/engineers to certain companies, face the one thing that can ire us to no end: Since we work with the stuff and have first knowledge, it seems that the people who we work for refuses to take our suggestions on the premise that these people don't like to be shown up as ignorant people, even though they know that we are right in our own mind since we have proven fact of the units/equipment that we (have) work(ed) with...and all we are doing is to get the best equipment in there for their buck on the sake of longetivity and quality since we care about our trade and field...and to the people we work for. They simply want to do it their way - no questions asked. Good luck, Randy .. hope things can work out in the best for you. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-08-2009 09:21 PM                        Take them only if they are free. Louis  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-08-2009 09:46 PM                     Agree. Obviously, there is a money factor in play here and unfortuate, we think expensive and high quality, and the owners are thinking pennies to the dollar that they want to spend and get away with just satisfactory results. If that's the case, "RAT-Shack" would have been rolling in the dough of the cheap junk they sold that was labeled 'quality'.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-08-2009 11:20 PM                     I will add that, all things considered, I think QSC is a very good choice.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-09-2009 02:34 AM                     From The 'About us" page on theor web site... quote: With over 150 employees on staff in Asia Tahst all the convincing I need not to ever use them. Of course thats why they're cheap... They're built with slave labor! Mark  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-09-2009 07:43 AM                     Aah! "Face"... An ancient Chinese word for "crap!"  |  IP: Logged

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