Had the same before and lasted forever. Great product easy to install!

I was replacing a PV900 amp that we have used for 7 years. The B side of the PV900 was hissing and overloading. I replaced it with this amp and found the real problem - I had the A and B side of the PV900 tied together by using un-insulated bulkhead connectors on a aluminum plate. Since this amp is totally intolerant of this, it showed up as a rapid, repeated overloading of the amp. I cut the plate in half and insulated it so the A and B side are fully floating and it fixed it for both amps. Peavey makes good stuff!

Anyway, this amp by specification and by trial is vastly superior in power and many have said sound quality, although my tired old ears tell me that both are roughly the same. The PV900 seemed to have more bass response than the IPR, but again my ears have been damaged by loud music and I am old. The 900 is about half the wattage and since I run four 8 ohm speakers, the 900 is only rated to 4 ohms while the IPR is rated to 2 ohms, allowing me to daisy chain all four speakers to one side of the amp if I want. With all four speakers on one channel (four 8ohm making 2 ohms), this amp is 1100 watts, eclipsing the total output of the 900. The long and short is that I have had to pull back the gains on everything on the sound board by a lot. While the 900 has more options on the back like bass crossovers and a combination output and all that, I wasn't using any of these cool features - just driving my four PR12s.

Reciently I did a test with my wife and daughter to check out a digial amp and a always on amp (both Peavey) and they liked the old style always on amp when using an analog input from a stereo and said that it is roughly equivalent to a full digital signal with a digital amp (bluetooth directly into the amp, no external analog conversion). My daughter had 20 year old ears and is quite the musician and my wife is a top clarinet player in the local professional orchestras. I could not hear the difference at all. I guess the age of digital is upon us.

This amp is very light and the knobs turn way too easily and protrude out from the face. While the lightness is really cool, the knobs should be recessed since only a slight bump and you are producing a dangerous amount of sound. I always start by running my amps at half throttle - I guess I do that because I was told sometime in the past to always do that. I resorted to putting some black tape over the knobs to keep them in their position. I thought about pulling the knobs off, but then worried that it would look too ghetto and it wouldn't protect anything from being bumped and actually might make things worse since if they were bumped and I couldn't read them, then I am SOL. Just a niggling point, but that is what you are left with on equipment this good.

It seems to work well, I thought it would have a lot more power, the speakers I bought were 8 ohms so it brings the power down to 375 amps.

Very good amp. never gets hot and weighs next to nothing. Also features such as Subwoofer out all worked with no problems.

Great amp works well plenty of power. Very versatile