Peavey IPR2 2000 Lightweight Power Amp

I was replacing a PV900 amp that we have used for 7 years. The B side of the PV900 was hissing and overloading. I replaced it with this amp and found the real problem - I had the A and B side of the PV900 tied together by using un-insulated bulkhead connectors on a aluminum plate. Since this amp is totally intolerant of this, it showed up as a rapid, repeated overloading of the amp. I cut the plate in half and insulated it so the A and B side are fully floating and it fixed it for both amps. Peavey makes good stuff!Anyway, this amp by specification and by trial is vastly superior in power and many have said sound quality, although my tired old ears tell me that both are roughly the same. The PV900 seemed to have more bass response than the IPR, but again my ears have been damaged by loud music and I am old. The 900 is about half the wattage and since I run four 8 ohm speakers, the 900 is only rated to 4 ohms while the IPR is rated to 2 ohms, allowing me to daisy chain all four speakers to one side of the amp if I want. With all four speakers on one channel (four 8ohm making 2 ohms), this amp is 1100 watts, eclipsing the total output of the 900. The long and short is that I have had to pull back the gains on everything on the sound board by a lot. While the 900 has more options on the back like bass crossovers and a combination output and all that, I wasn't using any of these cool features - just driving my four PR12s.Reciently I did a test with my wife and daughter to check out a digial amp and a always on amp (both Peavey) and they liked the old style always on amp when using an analog input from a stereo and said that it is roughly equivalent to a full digital signal with a digital amp (bluetooth directly into the amp, no external analog conversion). My daughter had 20 year old ears and is quite the musician and my wife is a top clarinet player in the local professional orchestras. I could not hear the difference at all. I guess the age of digital is upon us.This amp is very light and the knobs turn way too easily and protrude out from the face. While the lightness is really cool, the knobs should be recessed since only a slight bump and you are producing a dangerous amount of sound. I always start by running my amps at half throttle - I guess I do that because I was told sometime in the past to always do that. I resorted to putting some black tape over the knobs to keep them in their position. I thought about pulling the knobs off, but then worried that it would look too ghetto and it wouldn't protect anything from being bumped and actually might make things worse since if they were bumped and I couldn't read them, then I am SOL. Just a niggling point, but that is what you are left with on equipment this good.

Great amp, I've now had my hands on 3 separate Peavey IPR units, the original 3000, the IPR2-3000 and now this IPR2-3000 DSP.The newer series IPR2 3000 are upgraded in both build quality, design and sound. I've docked a star because the DSP is not as described on the cut-sheet and the manual. Some of the features you might expect are not included (Peavey can reach out to me if they like on this, but I've heard from someone I know at Peavey Engineering that the manual may be unreliable). It appears that the manual is copy/paste out of either the Crest ProLite series 3.0DSP amp or an older manual for the original series IPR. The LIMITER and USER MEMORY functions do not exist in the DSP. Nor do some of the HPF options that are listed.-It sounds BETTER. It just does. I noticed it right off in our practice room upon first racking the unit, and have now used it for several gigs. It seems smoother over all and to my ears has more going on in the low-mids/mids. Peavey has confirmed that they've done some changes to the 'class D MOSFET drive'...and I'm guessing that some de-emphasizing of something a little peaky in the upper ranges makes the mids come forward to my ears. It makes the amp feel 'bigger' and feel a little more muscular. I'm not tone-tweaking the treble on my preamp quite as much as I did.-Build quality has improved. The chassis seems more solid. It's still light, but it feels a bit more substantial and I didn't have to go in and take care of ANY rattles this time around. Last time I got inside with some foam tape to silence where the seams were vibrating, make sure the boards weren't rattling and all that. NONE of that this time around.-The attenuator pots feel nicer (on the Non DSP unit). They have more resistance and have more of a 'quality' vibe behind them. On the DSP unit they're not mechanical but 'input' for the DSP, so it's an N/A situation-The 'redesign' of the front panel: Some work has been done to sculpt the front panel so that the attenuators are recessed now as is the power button. Nice touch.-The LED's...are nowhere near as bright, either on the front panel nor the interior ones. I took to my old IPR with black nailpolish and a sharpie to get them to a reasonable level and that was still a fight. The new ones are just fine as they are and I don't think I'll be causing any seizures in the audience anymore.

Must read the instruction for power consumption, for this to work at high output you must have 20 amps to feed it.This is a excellent product used at any level I have it driving 2 15inch subs and I t will drive them clean and with enough volume to make you wonder if the speakers can handle it, will really drive it hard and all night without getting hot. Definitely will buy again

Great amp! Bought it as a test use for subs. Plan A was to buy another one and use the pair to drive a pair of subs with each amp. Plan B was to use it for tops if it didn't have enough oomph for subs. It exceeded my expectations and has been driving 2 pairs of subs for almost 2 years. I do sound for live bands and my subs are 8 ohm nominal but have a dip to 6 ohms so this is driving a 4 ohm load which has dips to 3 ohms. I have no idea how this would perform driving subs in an EDM setup, but for funk, rock, pop & country they run all day!UPDATE: It's now 9 years later and the amp is still cranking! Great investment!

This is very disappointing. I bought a behringer nx6000, didn't work on arrival so I returned and bought this one. This one has the same problem, turns on but no sound and no active light on the amplifier. I'm not sure why amazon is shipping out so many broken amplifiers. I paid over $1000 and its ridiculous that this pile doesn't work. I'm appalled at the state of the quality of items in this economy, absolute trash.

Not as strong or as powerful as stated. My old peavey amp pv8.3c 550w X 2 was less wattage but had way more power pushing subs. This amp is 1000 watts more power but doesn’t push the subs as strong at 4oms. Peavey is not what it used to be years ago. Guess it’s time to look into a different brand. Kinda disappointed after spending this much money on something that doesn’t sound as good.