IPR2 7500 Lightweight Power Amp, Black

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.

Great amp, I've now had my hands on 3 separate Peavey IPR units, the original 3000, the IPR2-3000 and now this IPR2-3000 DSP. The newer series IPR2 3000 are upgraded in both build quality, design and sound. I've docked a star because the DSP is not as described on the cut-sheet and the manual. Some of the features you might expect are not included (Peavey can reach out to me if they like on this, but I've heard from someone I know at Peavey Engineering that the manual may be unreliable). It appears that the manual is copy/paste out of either the Crest ProLite series 3.0DSP amp or an older manual for the original series IPR. The LIMITER and USER MEMORY functions do not exist in the DSP. Nor do some of the HPF options that are listed. -It sounds BETTER. It just does. I noticed it right off in our practice room upon first racking the unit, and have now used it for several gigs. It seems smoother over all and to my ears has more going on in the low-mids/mids. Peavey has confirmed that they've done some changes to the 'class D MOSFET drive'...and I'm guessing that some de-emphasizing of something a little peaky in the upper ranges makes the mids come forward to my ears. It makes the amp feel 'bigger' and feel a little more muscular. I'm not tone-tweaking the treble on my preamp quite as much as I did. -Build quality has improved. The chassis seems more solid. It's still light, but it feels a bit more substantial and I didn't have to go in and take care of ANY rattles this time around. Last time I got inside with some foam tape to silence where the seams were vibrating, make sure the boards weren't rattling and all that. NONE of that this time around. -The attenuator pots feel nicer (on the Non DSP unit). They have more resistance and have more of a 'quality' vibe behind them. On the DSP unit they're not mechanical but 'input' for the DSP, so it's an N/A situation -The 'redesign' of the front panel: Some work has been done to sculpt the front panel so that the attenuators are recessed now as is the power button. Nice touch. -The LED's...are nowhere near as bright, either on the front panel nor the interior ones. I took to my old IPR with black nailpolish and a sharpie to get them to a reasonable level and that was still a fight. The new ones are just fine as they are and I don't think I'll be causing any seizures in the audience anymore.

Peavey IPR2 3000 DSP It does the job. Light in weight ! You will think there is nothing in the box when it arrives. My rack is so much lighter now. Check out the Crest Prolite 3.0 as another alternative. It seems to have more features for the money. Peavey owns Crest. I don't know why amazon was selling these so cheap. I paid 396.00 for it. I decided to buy a second amp because of the price. I paid 392.00 for the second one. Update: I used a pv 2600 for 12 years no problems. It weighed in at 40 plus pounds. These sound just as good and only weigh around 10 pounds. I have been using them a few years now and they are fantastic. Love them both! Very reliable! no issues! Update 1/13/2026 These IPR2 3000 amps) 10 years old now and still going strong!

This is very disappointing. I bought a behringer nx6000, didn't work on arrival so I returned and bought this one. This one has the same problem, turns on but no sound and no active light on the amplifier. I'm not sure why amazon is shipping out so many broken amplifiers. I paid over $1000 and its ridiculous that this pile doesn't work. I'm appalled at the state of the quality of items in this economy, absolute trash.

Must read the instruction for power consumption, for this to work at high output you must have 20 amps to feed it. This is a excellent product used at any level I have it driving 2 15inch subs and I t will drive them clean and with enough volume to make you wonder if the speakers can handle it, will really drive it hard and all night without getting hot. Definitely will buy again

I’ve no clue what’s going on with Peavey but this is the second amplifier I order, last one from another site. Received it opened the box, plugged it in then nothing. Wouldn’t even turn on. Returned it and finally got my refund after almost thirty days.

It produces a lot of sound for 6 people. Thanks COVID!

PLUS - no A/D converter on the input no double conversion - class D high efficiency - rack mountable - Power out/$ - Excellent dynamics, clear and pounding bass that shakes the house. No issue driving a 2 ohm load even at high volumes. Equipment AVR Anthem MRX 1140 sub out connected to Art Cleanbox pro (RCA to XLR) then to Peavey IPr2 2000. Anthem arc genesis deep bass - boost at 1 db , center frequency 40 hz, room gain 3 db. Peavey IPR2 2000 AC power input is connected to a dedicated 20 amp AC outlet. Load is custom made subwoofer with two CSS SDX-10 dual opposed 10 inch drivers (parallel 2 ohms) connected to Channel A only. Input is set to "full range" to allow AVR to do the processing. MINUS -I find the fan noise irritating and can hear at low volume. Replace fan with NOCTUA NF-A8 super quite fan. Now I do not hear any fan noise. - Interior of amp is bombarded by multiple LEDs. There are 11 LEDS that lights up the corner doing nothing. Even if the power is shut off the LED still are too bright. Overall I am happy with performance. In opinion if you have an AVR with sub out I think this is better than using a Crown XLS drive core 2 amp as you do not need to do the double conversion with the built in DSP.

Not impressed - the materials are cheaply made