Some history and thoughts behind the development of
.
Mobile amplifiers have traditionally come in 3 flavours, mono blocks which are typically
sub woofer amplifiers, two channel and four channel. There has been a smattering of five,
six and eight channel amplifiers from various manufacturers. Today’s systems are more
sophisticated than systems of yesteryear but one thing remains the same. The need for a
sub amplifiers and some midrange and high frequency ones as well. Of course if one had
an amplifier with say twenty channels it would be relatively simple to cover the
requirements of every conceivable system. OK well let’s get back to reality. After much
thought, research and asking questions a six channel seemed to be the best compromise
between flexibility and functionality. Most systems it seems have a sub woofer and four
satellite channels. Others have a sub woofer with only front stage and no rear fill. Some or
active bi-amp, some are active tri-amp and some are active/passive tri-amp.
In the past 5 and 6 channel amplifiers have always had a modest power output, dictated
by several factors. Size, weight and cost. Zed Audio has been able to overcome all three
obstacles. With our full range class D technology and an intelligent power supply we have
been able to eliminate the first two obstacles. One could of course build a class A/B
amplifier with six channels and 150w per channel BUT it would be big, heavy and
expensive. The expensive part has been eliminated with the higher efficiency obtained
with class D and our power supply technology.
Leviathan can perform in many roles. We shall now go through these permutations and
see how they all stack up.
1) Run all six channels in FLAT mode. This will enable you to use an outboard processor
of your choice including our upcoming full tube electronic crossover.
2) Run all channels in flat mode and bridge any or all of the 3 pairs of channels.
3) Run channels 1+2 in high pass independently of the other channels
4) Run channels 3+4 in high, low or band pass independently of the other channels. There
are two crossovers available on channels 3+4 and switching the high and low pass to be
in cascade allows for a band pass mode.
5) Run channels 5+6 in low pass mode using the dedicated RCA inputs.
6) Run channels 5+6 in low pass mode using the summed inputs of channels 1-4. The
signal is now MONO and this mono signal is routed to the main channel 5+6 amplifiers.
7) Channels 1+2 can be switched to receive the mono low pass signal from channels 5+6
8) Channels 3+4 can be switched to receive the mono low pass signal from channels 5+6
9) For a tri-amplified system, channels 1+2 are run high pass, channels 3+4 bandpass
and channels 5+6 low pass.
10) All six channels can be run mono low pass for those systems where there are many
single woofers.
LEVIATHAN
LEVIATHAN
LEVIATHAN
comes standard with Burr Brown chip sets in the front end.
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