Why the hype for old school amps?

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

Brother, we could be twins .........I too got out of car audio in about 93 or 94.Now I'm attempting to get back into it, and I'm not finding the quality and sound I remember from the "old" days. I'm not prepared to spend a couple of thousand for an amp. I'm amazed at the wattage I'm seeing for 200.00, but I'm not very impressed by the quality. I still have 2 of my original Xtant amps, my monoblock will be fine for my subs, but my 4X45 isn't going to cut it for the Rainbox Pro-Fi Kicks.....Man, I wish I had kept my old PPI A600 and A404.........I guess I'm going to end up with a "old school/new School" system!.........unless upon reading more hear, I find a new amp with the quality and sound of the old stuff......anyone?

Regards Sonny

you could just bridge your xtant for your front channels- it's an idea. I had 3 Rockford Punch amps back in the day (Circa '94) 2 punch 60's and a punch 100 ithe the heatsink extenders so it looked like 1 3ft long amp when it was flushed on my amp rack. I was running 2 JL 12w4's off the 100, 2 kicker 6 1/2's in the doors off 1 60 and a kicker 5 1/4 +tweet setup off the other 60. It was effin loud as hell. That was back in the day when a 4 channel amp was almost unheard of and crossovers being built into amps was a new thing (I was rocking the MTX outboard 3 way crossover that was the size of a modern 50w x 2 amp) That is one thing about new-school amps- they don't take up as much real estate in your trunk.

Oh and for the record the new Zapco digital amps **** balls. The shop I go to says they have some cool capabilities but every one they have installed has been exchanged in the last year becasue it died and they are likely going to drop the line because thier product has gone downhill. Dls FTW!

 

[SonnyD 10+ year member]

Yeah, the Xtant bridges at 180x2.....

Wow, I hadn't heard that about the Zapco's.....I was kind of leaning towards the DC750.2 Zapco. I may say screw it all and go with a JL 300/2....decisions, decisions!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Oh well, I'm not in a big hurry so I'll just take my time and see what turns up.........Thanks for the suggestion

Regards Sonny

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Oh and for the record the new Zapco digital amps **** balls. The shop I go to says they have some cool capabilities but every one they have installed has been exchanged in the last year becasue it died and they are likely going to drop the line because thier product has gone downhill. Dls FTW!

Oh why, oh why must Bri487 be banned right now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Would have loved to see his response to that.

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

Oh why, oh why must Bri487 be banned right now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
Would have loved to see his response to that.

I don't know who that is, I just know what the guys at Avincar told me, and they are basically the 2 most knowedgeable car audio guys I know- and they just picked up Zapco specifically for those amps and have been really disappointed with bad ones out of the box, or going bad soon after installation. Given thier work, I don't believe it's anything they (Avincar) are doing wrong.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

A guy who humps new production Zapco hard.

 

[Orion Man 10+ year member]

was lanzer a good amp in the 90's

Orion, Rockford, and Lanzar built some serious powerful amps in the 90's.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

talk about digging deep under the sheets......

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

There is a theme. Even the thread is oldschool.

 

[Mr. C 10+ year member]

Never giving up mine.

These are three of my seven. Used to have a 5600x til the SPL bug bit me. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fro.gif.c695f1f814b01c4ad99fe7f8cccadd29.gif

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

I bet you'd love to have these US Amps...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

I got some old school US Acoustics commin in tomorrow. I'm so excited. 2 USX600F's for my mids/tweets. 2 USX800Fs, 1 for each IDMax12. I'll get some pictures once they come in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

I got some old school US Acoustics commin in tomorrow. I'm so excited. 2 USX600F's for my mids/tweets. 2 USX800Fs, 1 for each IDMax12. I'll get some pictures once they come in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Those will be nice amps...but I doubt you'll get them tomorrow.....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

Im kinda glad they changed the rules. All everyone was doing was just stuffing as many subs they could in their cars. Just getting back into it after a while out. More emphasize is placed on box design, woofer design, processing etc. Just ***** that seems like amps are not as good quality. Back in the day (early 90's or so) you would pretty much pay $1 a watt. 500w to a pair of 12's you were rockin. 1000w was almost unheard of for a street system. A competitor back then was about half as loud as your street beaters today.

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

Those will be nice amps...but I doubt you'll get them tomorrow.....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

Oh yeah, the 4th. d0h. They were suppose to have been here today. But it got delayed cause it wasn't in the computer yet. I just checked it right now. It says delivery the 5th >.

Freaking really sux, cuse they are at this Fedex Hub thats like less then 30 mins from my house. But they don't do early pickups.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

I got some old school US Acoustics commin in tomorrow. I'm so excited. 2 USX600F's for my mids/tweets. 2 USX800Fs, 1 for each IDMax12. I'll get some pictures once they come in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Werent those the last US Acoustics made by Zed?

Nice!

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