Ashly Power Amp

Rick Fields · Post by **Rick Fields** » 15 Oct 2005 12:56 pm

Anyone know how this would work with Steel? Its a FET 500 Its stereo 400 watts per side. It has the MosFet power. Thanks!!

T. C. Furlong · Post by **T. C. Furlong** » 16 Oct 2005 1:08 pm

I have used Ashly amps for sound systems and they sound great because they are MosFets. Very sweet highs. My only reservation would be the weight. Ashly amps are heavy. I have done a bunch of comparisons of power amps for steel, unfortunately none with Ashly. I have found that if a power amp sounds better in a sound system, it always sounds better in a steel rig.
TC

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 16 Oct 2005 1:14 pm

I second what TC has said. Plus, Ashley equpment may not always be pretty but is bullet-proof as far as reliability in my experience.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 17 Oct 2005 2:13 am

I have found the opposite. I've compared my MosValve 500 power amp and an ADA power amp - both made for instrument amplification against several "general purpose" or "PA" amps, including the Peavey DPC series and several Carvin power amps and the ones designed for instrument amplification win hands down.

Case in point. Using a Peavey Transtube Fex (preamp/effects processor) with an "instrument" amp such as the MosValve 500 it has a great overall tone, good lows, mids and not too "brittle" highs. With several Peavey DPC amps and with a Carvin 2600 lows were lost (that the Transtube Fex could not make up) and I lost "body" in the Steel tone. A friend tried it too, with a DPC 750 and didn't like the sound, he went back to an old ADA amp and his sound came back.