When 100 watts Really Means 1000 watts...

[WillistonAudioLabs]

The Audio Art 100HC is one of the most beautiful amplifier designs EVER!! From the stunning white and polished aluminum exterior to the absolutely incredible internals. The amplifiers dual-mono design by David Yeh has impressed both SPL and SQ users over the years. The amp has a high-current design and is capable of powering speaker loads between 0.5 and 16 ohms. Back in the day this would be considered a 100 watt amp (for competition purposes). The original MSRP (1995-6) was $999 USD and it's main competition were Orion's HCCA and US Amps VLX series amplifiers. In the 90's, many competition classes were divided by 4 ohm rated power, so you could have 2 of these and still be in the 250 watt and under class.

Here we take a look at this work of "Audio Art" and try it out on the Amp Dyno as well. Spoiler alert...it's down right impressive! Too bad there's not a good way to portray sound quality over YouTube or you would be impressed with more than the looks and output power!

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[Wishuponasub]

That's crazy to see since I wasn't around during the cheater amp period. It is a beautiful amp for sure.

[ShadeTreeMechanic]

Thanks for doing the video! Back then we thought the guys running 1 ohm were nuts and were going to burn their amps up. lol I miss the big rock solid AB amps.