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There is an interesting reply from TC on market segments for RH and BH amps lines (and active power management) in their forums : [url="http://forum.tcelectronic.com/topic/16804/new-bh500-and-bh800-tech-spec-and-wattage/"]http://forum.tcelectronic.com/topic/16804/new-bh500-and-bh800-tech-spec-and-wattage/[/url]

thanks everyone for the reviews... now i have to be strong and not buy a new amp before i sold a guitar or two

so ? any news ? or are you too busy playing with the new amp and downloading tone prints ?

not yet, i've seen one in a music store but couldn't test it at this time. I've also found out something interesting on TC forums : These amps have no ActivePowerManagement, so we're talking about 800 real watts (RMS ? ). this might be interesting to listen to...

Actually if you read their white paper about active power management, they're not lying that much. Yes the watt numbers they announce in the product codename is not the RMS_8Ohms wattage, but nobody would buy their products if they done that, Who would buy a RH236 top of line amp ? It is completely ok to do power management in order to maximise the perceived output by the end-user (humans are not good a measuring RMS power, but feel the power). If you take a multimeter and measure real power output from various high end amps you would be surprised. However TC have published a white-paper with numbers and scientific measurements of the amp section that explain how they do they power management and how to repro the experience. They are pretty transparent about it and that's really good to them. They have done it for the RH series and the Blacksmith, now it's time to ask for the BH series.

[quote name='Guinness21' timestamp='1412665870' post='2570779'] Yeah, before I'd ever consider buying one I'd need to know the real power output. [/quote] I've asked them on their forums : [url="http://forum.tcelectronic.com/post/93955/#p93955"]http://forum.tcelectronic.com/post/93955/#p93955[/url]

I'm seeing these amps as a nice addition to a RH450 : use the rh450 as a preamp (presets, tube tone, spectra comp) and then feed into the BH800 as pedal board and power amp : lots of power (if not TC emphasis) and two more tone prints if needed (chorus and octaver for me please)

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1406468752' post='2511675'] Turned on my BG 250, it goes pop a few times and smoke comes from the back of it. I will never buy a piece of kit from TC again. [/quote] Well, don't make statistics based only on one sample My two TC amps never had a problem, this is not an excuse for me to say they are invincible and will survive till the end of times. Sometimes also short circuits in amps are just bad luck (like a bug walking on the wrong contacts and blowing it up). it is also worth having it repaired if it is under warranty because if there is a design problem , usually the manufacturer will notice it due to the volume of services and fix it in the next release (amp misfunctioning are also bad for TC reputation).