At the time I bought the KPA500 I looked seriously at a number of higher-power alternatives, including some from Tokyo Hy-Power I think it was called, now QRT. I hired an electrician to assess what I would need by way of AC mains wiring to support an amp safely. The current draw on the KPA500 was at the limit of what I could do without running a new dedicated 220 line to the operating position. The cost of adding a new line would have been significant, even in this house which was built in 1996 and has wiring adequate to support electric everything, including heat, on a Colorado mountain top yet. Hence I bought the KPA500, which I just plug into the existing 117 sockets. I wonder if that is the location of a break point in the marketability curve - i.e. the point at which an amp has for at least some potential buyers a total cost in excess of its price.
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