Audio Control The Architect Model 700 Power Amplifier

Description

The Architect® Product Highlights
600 Watts Strong
— With twelve powerful channels of amplification, The Architect will drive 50 watts per channel with all channels driven. This is a true 600 watt amp design, so go ahead and put a small quarry of rock speakers by the patio. Then sit back and enjoy the sound.
Built For The Long Haul
— The Architect has been designed with durability in mind. The Lightdrive protection circuitry defends The Architect and your speakers against clipping, distortion, damage, parties and even teenagers. Even if the party lasts all weekend.
Light Drive Protection
— Few things are more irritating than a problem in one zone of an audio system effecting the entire system. This will not happen with The Architect. Every stereo output zone features independent protection against short circuits, over-heating, DC offset and clipping. Even if the protection needs to kick in, that doesn’t neccessarily mean that the affected zone will shutdown. If a zone overheats, the smart protection reduces the power to that zone, allowing it to cool down with only aminimal reduction in speaker volume. Of course the protection circuits are smart enough to reset themselves when the problem is solved.
Specially Designed Frequency Controls
— (Model 700 only) The Architect Model 700 is intended to provide a dramatic sound improvement for “small” speakers, such as those with 6- inch and 8-inch woofers. The Architect’s 45Hz, 150Hz, 300Hz, 700Hz, 2500Hz and 12kHz band centers were chosen to optimize in-wall and 2-way bookshelf speakers at critical frequencies where adjustment is most advantageous. The bandwidths (or ‘Q’ as our engineering types call it) have also been optimized for the difficulties that in-wall speakers present. This allows The Architect Model 700 to improve the sound of these smaller speakers better than any other equalizer.
PFM Programmable Subsonic Filter
— The Architect’s Programmable Frequency Match (PFM) circuitry is an installer adjustable bass-blocking filter which protects small speakers and improves their overall sound. The smaller woofers found in most in-wall or bookshelf speakers cannot reproduce the bass of a larger speaker (the laws of physics intervene). If called upon to reproduce a bass note that would cause the speaker to move PAST its maximum cone travel, damage can result - and even if it doesn’t, severe audible distortion DOES. The solution is AudioControl’s exclusive PFM circuit. It gives small woofers only those frequencies they can use by “chopping off” bass below an installer programmed frequency (40Hz is the factory setting). The woofer is protected and can do a better job of reproducing midbass and higher frequencies.
Input Bussing
– Sometimes you just want to feed the same music to every room in the house. You could use a single, stereo amp and series/parallel the speakers. The problem is that if you get a short in the system or the amp dies, all of the zones go dead. The Architect solves that dilemma by letting you send a single stereo signal to all 12 channels of the Architect with the press of a button. Every room enjoys independent protection and equalization.
Made in the Northwest Rainforest
— The Architect began its existence at our factory in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, a few miles north of Seattle. Here, we also build precision test instruments, equalizers and analyzers and a totally awesome line of car stereo components. AudioControl began in 1977 and has won so many audio industry awards for design and engineering excellence that our reception room wall is starting to sag. But enough about us. Let’s start getting the most from your audio system!