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My 2500BD was only .5db quieter than my Lanzar Opti6k.

155dbz with a RF 2500. Great amp.. it's been my baby for 3 years now.

Thats incredible

On 5/8/2011 at 7:38 PM, Kranny said:
On 5/8/2011 at 7:35 PM, 'Maxim' said:

It hurts me inside when I read stuff like this and remember you're 15

LMFAO so true

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My 2500BD was only .5db quieter than my Lanzar Opti6k.

155dbz with a RF 2500. Great amp.. it's been my baby for 3 years now.

Thats incredible

RF 2500..

Wait till 40sec. :)

edit: Sorry to threadjack, just adding my input on the amps.

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This is very true. The CP's design allows it to combat box rise more than most any other amp.

Ed, do you care to briefly explain how "Constant Power" works, or is it really complicated?

Is the gain essentially just automatically changed as impedance and frequency change?

I dont have any detailed insight into RFs design.

But I do believe that its mostly in the firmware programmed into the amp.

It can be similar to the lighting inverters I used to program with Razorlite. We called them "FlatLine" Because the graphical line of brightness would be flat among various sized light panels, which were loads just like woofers.

The idea is the the processor would read the load attached to the output and essentially it would raise or lower the voltage depending on how that load changed. In the case of our light panels, the lights would dim over time because their electrical impedance would increase with life, so the inverter would sense this and slowly increase voltage as life went on.

An amplifier is an inverter, and modern amps have firmware, so it is possible to make the amp increase output voltage automatically as it senses the load increasing.

The speed in which it does this is dependent on the processor used and we all know that we can have super fast processors in small packages nowadays.

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The whole shell of an amp is the heat sink

see i thought the shell in a whole was a casing while the heat sink being the part that kinda wraps around the the 3 edges that the controls/input/outputs arent on. when you click the learn more link on the rockford site forthe dtm it shows a heat image of the heat traveling out away from the center evenly across that outer edge

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Can you wire to 2 ohm and re clamp the amp would love to see those results

Can you wire to 2 ohm and re clamp the amp would love to see those results

Once I get the time I probably could and post them up here.

The amplifier was also DD-1'd and at maximum un-clipped head unit volume so that is clean power as well.

On 6/30/2011 at 1:11 AM, 'Ray' said:

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Can you wire to 2 ohm and re clamp the amp would love to see those results

Once I get the time I probably could and post them up here.

The amplifier was also DD-1'd and at maximum un-clipped head unit volume so that is clean power as well.

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On 5/8/2011 at 7:38 PM, Kranny said:
On 5/8/2011 at 7:35 PM, 'Maxim' said:

It hurts me inside when I read stuff like this and remember you're 15

LMFAO so true

:blush:

Mitsubishi 3000GT (Old Build)

Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS

Frontstage: (2) McLaren Audio MLT-2 Tweeters & (4) PRV Audio MR Series Neo 6.5" Mids

Substage: 4 15" Hybrid Subs - Tantric Motors & Sundown Softies

Amps: Banda 2.4D Amp (Tweets), American Bass VFL 350.4 (Mids), and (2) Ampere 3800s

Electrical :Singer 260A Alt & JY Power Lithium

 

2005 Chevy Colorado Ext Cab

Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS

Frontstage: 4 PRV 700Ti Tweets & 6 10" Delta Mids on 3000wrms

Substage: 6 Fi BTL 18s in a 4th Order Walkthrough on 3 Wolfram 4500s

Electrical: Singer "390" and JY Power

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I had a t500cp and it did almost 920 rms at 1 ohm

T1000cp do 1490 and a t1500cp go up to 1900 all at 14.4

My t1000 still did 1200 at 12 volts

Talk about underrated lol

Did you clamp this, along with the other #s?

On 5/8/2011 at 7:38 PM, Kranny said:
On 5/8/2011 at 7:35 PM, 'Maxim' said:

It hurts me inside when I read stuff like this and remember you're 15

LMFAO so true

:blush:

Mitsubishi 3000GT (Old Build)

Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS

Frontstage: (2) McLaren Audio MLT-2 Tweeters & (4) PRV Audio MR Series Neo 6.5" Mids

Substage: 4 15" Hybrid Subs - Tantric Motors & Sundown Softies

Amps: Banda 2.4D Amp (Tweets), American Bass VFL 350.4 (Mids), and (2) Ampere 3800s

Electrical :Singer 260A Alt & JY Power Lithium

 

2005 Chevy Colorado Ext Cab

Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS

Frontstage: 4 PRV 700Ti Tweets & 6 10" Delta Mids on 3000wrms

Substage: 6 Fi BTL 18s in a 4th Order Walkthrough on 3 Wolfram 4500s

Electrical: Singer "390" and JY Power

My Official Feedback Thread

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