Crown CTS 3000 Power Amplifier Rack Mount 1500Watt per channel

[Music] what's going on guys derek here from wilston audio labs today we look at a pro audio amplifier by crown this is actually one of their kind of lower end models the xlr 1500 retails for 339 dollars that's what i paid for it a couple years ago on amazon so we're going to test it out today although they say it's a 450 watt amplifier it's actually a two channels it's 450 by two at four ohms 330 by two at eight ohms or 900 watts bridge at eight ohms so let's take it out of the box here and see what it's all about first thing you'll notice is this thing is heavy heavy-duty well-built all that good stuff on the front panel here you can see there's two different gain adjustments for channel one channel two and there's also a fault clip and signal light for each of the channels and the power button in the middle with the power led here on the back of the amp you can see the various differ