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On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said:

Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol.

On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said:

fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point

On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said:

I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha

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Pros: Its only $230!

Cons: Its only a 2000W amp, and if the efficiency is low (which it probably is) there's a good chance it won't even make 2k. Oh and its Power Acoustik so don't expect any sort of reliability.

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Pros: Its only $230!

Cons: Its only a 2000W amp, and if the efficiency is low (which it probably is) there's a good chance it won't even make 2k. Oh and its Power Acoustik so don't expect any sort of reliability.

Efficiency has nothing to do with power output.

OP That's a bargain for what it does but I would look to the Soundstream Rubicon series, they do rated on a budget and are known to be fairly reliable considering the price. The shoddy Chinese construction is what sucks about cheap amps.

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soundstream is good for the budget, but their are definitely better buys for the buck. Crescendo makes a good 2000 watt amp. I'm very fond of my AQ 2200d also

That is a little spendy compared to this junk.

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Pros: Its only $230!

Cons: Its only a 2000W amp, and if the efficiency is low (which it probably is) there's a good chance it won't even make 2k. Oh and its Power Acoustik so don't expect any sort of reliability.

Efficiency has nothing to do with power output.

OP That's a bargain for what it does but I would look to the Soundstream Rubicon series, they do rated on a budget and are known to be fairly reliable considering the price. The shoddy Chinese construction is what sucks about cheap amps.

Really? So if the amp is 75% efficient it wouldn't mean a damn thing? So if I took the amp's 5 40 amp fuse blades and add that up to a total of 200amps still nothing huh? So how about I take the equation for wattage 200A x 12.5V x .75 = 1875 watts. <-- Notice I included the efficiency in there, since no amp is 100% efficient? That wouldn't be a good means to judge an amps absolute max potential, in a market full of inflated ratings? Efficiency can really help you see through an inflated rating and determine an amps realistic output, its has A LOT to do with power output. And that's suggesting the amp will be able to pull near the 200amps of current its fused at.

EDIT: BTW Epsilon owns Power Acoustik and Soundstream, and since Epsilon is renowned for being high quality (<--that's sarcasm, they're a profits first company). Not saying they're bad, but I wouldn't touch them. Not anymore anyway.

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Pros: Its only $230!

Cons: Its only a 2000W amp, and if the efficiency is low (which it probably is) there's a good chance it won't even make 2k. Oh and its Power Acoustik so don't expect any sort of reliability.

Efficiency has nothing to do with power output.

OP That's a bargain for what it does but I would look to the Soundstream Rubicon series, they do rated on a budget and are known to be fairly reliable considering the price. The shoddy Chinese construction is what sucks about cheap amps.

Really? So if the amp is 75% efficient it wouldn't mean a damn thing? So if I took the amp's 5 40 amp fuse blades and add that up to a total of 200amps still nothing huh? So how about I take the equation for wattage 200A x 12.5V x .75 = 1875 watts. <-- Notice I included the efficiency in there, since no amp is 100% efficient? That wouldn't be a good means to judge an amps absolute max potential, in a market full of inflated ratings? Efficiency can really help you see through an inflated rating and determine an amps realistic output, its has A LOT to do with power output. And that's suggesting the amp will be able to pull near the 200amps of current its fused at.

EDIT: BTW Epsilon owns Power Acoustik and Soundstream, and since Epsilon is renowned for being high quality (<--that's sarcasm, they're a profits first company). Not saying they're bad, but I wouldn't touch them. Not anymore anyway.

That's efficiency vs. fuse rating, so no. A 5,000w RMS amp that is 50% efficient still makes 5,000w RMS it just eats 10,000w worth of current. That was the point I was making, sorry.

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