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"sir, which amps are you interested in? what is your budget?" "no thanks, i will make my own."

The aluminum plates mounted to the amp rack are the actual amplifier base plates. The view with the back glass open

It's a true pleasure to be included in this project. Many of you know that I was in car audio for some time - '83 - 2008. In that 25 years, I had the pleasure of working with some phenomenal people and Tony is certainly among them. Tony and I worked together at Rockford from '02-'08 (although he worked there before I came on board). We met through a love of fast cars and have been buds ever since. Since I've known Tony, I have seen and heard things that I never imagined possible. He has this uncanny ability to explain even the most difficult to grasp concepts in such a way that anyone can understand. In addition, Tony has helped me to achieve many of the projects that I've taken on over the years by thinking them through with me in an effort to make them successful - many of them have become wildly successful as a result. I have been a hard core audio enthusiast since I was a kid. Trust me when I tell you that Tony will go down as one of the most forward thinking audio engineers of his time and his name will be mentioned among the audio greats - Saul Marantz, Frank McIntosh, Avery Fisher, Bob Carver, John Curl, Jim Strickland, Arnie Nudell, Dan D'Agnosto, etc. His designs are without compromise. He has poured his heart and soul into this project just as he has so many others. For those of you lucky enough to see this launched at CES, you will be as fortunate as those that stood in line to witness the unveiling of the T15kw at CES just a few short years ago. Tony has influenced me greatly in the time that I've known him and continues to do so - brother, you're an inspiration and one of my very best friends! To say that I'm excited for you here would be an understatement. Car audio is ready and my 'stang is due for a make over in the audio department!

Loving the looks of the rack so far.

I am on the edge wanting to see the amp and all it's glory. Sick build. This is going to be clean. Can't wait to see it done,

I love it. Can't wait to see the amps!After seeing the t15k (on line, never in person) I'm sure these amps will be the epitomy of sound clarity and quallity...

Sick sick sick..

the wait is killing me.

Amp Rack finished!

Some MOAR! Door panels finished

so are you saying you want the first set of 2ch? Well god dammit if you post me a pic, they are yours! Email me your shipping addy to [email protected] and ill get them out tomorrow! Make sure you put your phone number in there too so my shipping manager can get it on your shipping label. thanks Brandon and welcome to the forum!

It will be mobile mostly, we will try to have it available for demos upon request as much as possible. Gimme the keys Tony, me and ken will hit the strip. I'll personally guarantee many will hear and see it. Those boards look like pure sex. That shop does some rad looking work also, thumbs up.

Great question! In the case of our dual monoblock amplifier, it is literally two mono amps in one chassis so both have to have their own power cable as each of them has it's own power supply. Why is this a good thing? In the case of running subwoofers (as one of our dual monoblocks will be in this build) it doesn't make much if any difference at all, other than offering lower resistance as you mentioned. But in the case of running components (as the other dual monoblock amp will be in this build) it makes a big difference on Stereo Separation. Stereo separation is this (on a multichannel amplifier): If a sound input to the Left Channel, and no sound is input to the Right Channel, how much sound actually comes out of the right channel? In a perfect world the right channel would be completely silent. In the real world some of the sound intended for the Left Channel will come out of the right channel. This problem is especially bad at higher (tweeter) frequencies. As frequency increases electricity doesn't necessarily need wire to conduct, it will radiate wirelessly if not shielded very well. In a 2 channel amp, both amplifiers share a common circuit board and power supply so some of the left channel sounds can easily find their way into the right channel. In a very well made 2 channel amplifier, the channel separation may only be 40dB or so at high freqs. That means if the left channel is playing a tone or sound, the same tone or sound will be coming out of the right channel; but -40 dB from that of the left channel. This tends to "blur" the imaging, sounds won't appear to come from where they were intended to. On a TRUE dual mono design like ours this problem is really not a problem any more. I say TRUE because there are several "dual mono" designs on the market that are fake. Dual connectors to the same PCB. Left and right channels right next to each other on 1/2 of the same PCB... etc. Hope that answers the question. Keep them coming! Tony D

for a class a/b yes but i mean a 5 k amp it looks like he is trying to stay in the SQ side of things

Ok now the thread has gone too far. Rusty is one of my best friends in the entire world. I don't really feel good about his name being mentioned. That wasn't my intention. I just want everyone here to be careful who in the audio scene who you trust because all might not seem what you think it is. That is all. Rusty, sorry man. I will lock this now.

no worries man , Im not upset my name was mentioned, i knew it was a matter of time before someone said DC and Robs name together. I just wasted to make sure it was cleared up so eveyone knew he has nothing to do with Me or DC ,

Just to make sure Me and my company stay out of this, He does not work here and has not for a bit. Hes not even welcome in the building as far as that goes for what he pulled over on me here. Im not going to get into why. I just dont want DC's name being brought up with this guys name. Him and his issues are his own.

Wow thorshammer got caught with some marijuana and ratted on someone. Really... ive been searching all day thinking some audio company gone belly up. Well im done. But it really sucks dude couldnt take what was a risk in the game he in to drag people with him is low

hey man, if you did the time like a man, that is respect. if you told the police where you got the gun from and destroyed that persons life to save yourself, then that is some fuck ass shit. I know you know this....i am just responding so people understand WHY this is so crazy. A little bit of weed nobody gives a fuck about. I would help bail the dude out if that's all it was and so would a lot of people. But it ain't.

When I went to jail in 05 it was for a pistol. The same cops was harassing me every other day until they found it. Turns out that one of my little homies, friend, told on me. My little homey thought it was cool what I was doing and was bragging to everybody that he knew me. His homey got jammed up and didn't know shit in the streets except my fucking name and gave it to the police. Ever since then, I kept all shit to myself. Even the person you think you could trust could do some dumb shit to get you fucked up.

Dropping down on your "friend", for you to see day light, isnt right. Never has been, never will be.Where im from, you get a boot on your throat for that shit. Lots of people that talk like they aren't a snitch are real quick to snitch when they are facing years in prison. If I was doing something that could get me in trouble no one but myself would know about it, you really can't trust most people these days.

Dropping down on your "friend", for you to see day light, isnt right. Never has been, never will be. Where im from, you get a boot on your throat for that shit.

it's not even on social media that i know....i haven't seen anything. I think what WAS said got pulled. I hope it comes back i will be happy to link it here. But regardless, this isn't about social media. Yes, i get it, some of you are too cool for facebook lol. But that is irrelevant. Just warning you all to be careful who you talk to or who you make friends with.

getting arrested isn't a big deal. It happens to the best of us. But what you do to save your own fucking skin afterwards is what matters. Let me make that clear. None of us are saints. But if you do something to get in trouble you take your punishment and do your time like a man.