PinkFreud65 Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 I'm piecing together a system, finally! I am trying to decide on an amp, wee! I plan on running a single FI SSD 15. I'm looking for an amp that will push this woofer, 1000w rms. I'd LIKE to get something closer to 1.5kw just so I have some head room. And that's assuming my 90A alt in my 06 Mazda 3i sedan will even push 1kw. :/ I have looked at FSD 1600D, I've heard conflicting things on it being a cheap copy of a other amp...but, I have no idea! I'm just wanting something that will ACTUALLY do 1-2kw. Thanks in advance, PF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotorCityFats13 Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 be our forum Ginnie pig and get a CAB 1600.1 for $199.... steve, sundown and big D has dyno vids on this amp and it exceeds rated to some really funny figures!!!!! find his last amp test tuesday post if you have not watched it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkFreud65 Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Yeah.....I've looked into CAB....I'm just not sure about getting that and being shit out of luck...and money! Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esgedi Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 I'm piecing together a system, finally! I am trying to decide on an amp, wee! I plan on running a single FI SSD 15. I'm looking for an amp that will push this woofer, 1000w rms. I'd LIKE to get something closer to 1.5kw just so I have some head room. And that's assuming my 90A alt in my 06 Mazda 3i sedan will even push 1kw. :/ I have looked at FSD 1600D, I've heard conflicting things on it being a cheap copy of a other amp...but, I have no idea! I'm just wanting something that will ACTUALLY do 1-2kw. Thanks in advance, PF 1-2kw on what driver and box? I assume you know that subwoofers are a reactive load right, the resistance changes throughout the frequency range. It wouldn't be insane for your driver to peak at over 5x the free air resistance at some point in the bass spectrum. Just go for whatever you can afford and won't break. The Cab1600 should be a reliable amp, as far as i know it was licensed from jacob at sundown. It's such a basic amp that even if something did fry you could replace it with common jellybean parts. For example, my Ultimax 18" is wired to 1.1 ohms, but at 36hz i have a peak of 4.1 ohms. As you can imagine, this greatly changes the amount of input power. The difference between 500w and 2000w is inaudible in terms of pure output power. You need a power factor of 10 to double the output of a driver, so don't even stress trying to get some magical 2000w capable amp. Go CAB1600, Prime 1200.1, Hifonics BRZ2400.1, or thereabouts. They're cheap, well built amps that will give you years of reliable output as long as you don't abuse them. Don't trust a shop but you personally just smoked two decks, makes sense. 03' Trailblazer LTDayton Designer 6.5"s & Silkie tweetersDayton Audio Ultimax 18"Pioneer 9601 & 8604XS Power D34002 runs 1/0Singer 250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotorCityFats13 Posted March 12, 2016 Report Share Posted March 12, 2016 I'm piecing together a system, finally! I am trying to decide on an amp, wee! I plan on running a single FI SSD 15. I'm looking for an amp that will push this woofer, 1000w rms. I'd LIKE to get something closer to 1.5kw just so I have some head room. And that's assuming my 90A alt in my 06 Mazda 3i sedan will even push 1kw. :/ I have looked at FSD 1600D, I've heard conflicting things on it being a cheap copy of a other amp...but, I have no idea! I'm just wanting something that will ACTUALLY do 1-2kw. Thanks in advance, PF 1-2kw on what driver and box? I assume you know that subwoofers are a reactive load right, the resistance changes throughout the frequency range. It wouldn't be insane for your driver to peak at over 5x the free air resistance at some point in the bass spectrum. Just go for whatever you can afford and won't break. The Cab1600 should be a reliable amp, as far as i know it was licensed from jacob at sundown. It's such a basic amp that even if something did fry you could replace it with common jellybean parts. For example, my Ultimax 18" is wired to 1.1 ohms, but at 36hz i have a peak of 4.1 ohms. As you can imagine, this greatly changes the amount of input power. The difference between 500w and 2000w is inaudible in terms of pure output power. You need a power factor of 10 to double the output of a driver, so don't even stress trying to get some magical 2000w capable amp. Go CAB1600, Prime 1200.1, Hifonics BRZ2400.1, or thereabouts. They're cheap, well built amps that will give you years of reliable output as long as you don't abuse them. first Ive heard about sundowns hands in this.... do you know if its out of the same buildhouse as the sundown amps and if so are the really just dumbed down versions of a sundown amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkFreud65 Posted March 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2016 Yeah, curious about who actually has a hand in those CAB amps too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vil Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 .The difference between 500w and 2000w is inaudible in terms of pure output power. So your telling us that an increase of 4x the power will have no noticeable affect? Even though were talking about what, a 12dB increase? Can you provide data/links to support this claim, because I'd like to read more into this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkFreud65 Posted March 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 What I was told is basically, it takes double the power to get an audible increase. So...5w to 10w would be an audible difference (human ear needs what, around 3dB to notice that difference?) ...so 500w to 1000w, right? Just repeating what I was told Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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