power amps

[Geek99]

i've seen various power/pa amps for sale in my son's dj magazines mostly rackmount - is there any reason i shouldnt use use one for bass?
can i just add a 4 x 10 cab?

maplin also does one. i have a zoom so i'm not too worried about graphic eq, valves sound etc

[Mr. Foxen]

Will need a preamp. A quite good power amp is probably beneficial, I think they suffer a little more with straight instrument signal.

[longtimefred]

i used to use a Peavey PV900 power amp along with the Peavey Max Pre Amp. Was a great rig and never let me down. Not really much need for stereo channels i found so i just used bridge mode to link the 2 together. Beware of cheaper low power amps though as most of them do not bridge down past 8ohms. (well they didnt used to when i had one)