Old school amps

[ISO]

I hear what you guys are saying. Thanx for the feedback. I don't doubt the performance at all. My main concern is that if I blow one of the amps it's gonna be hard to replace it with one of equal or superior performance while maintaining the uniform look.

If one of your old RF amps die on you, RF will probably tell you about Larry Landis.

Larry will only rebuild RF amps and won't touch any other brands so I'm guessing he must be contracted by RF because he is firm on that rule.

He charges a flat rate per model and you get an authorized warranty and as an extra you even get a brand new PVC or birth sheet showing how much power your newly rebuilt RF amp is putting out.

I have talked with him a handful of times and he seems like a great guy and of course RF sent me to him.

I don't have a single worry or concern about Mr. Landis.

If you ever need his contact info and can't find it you can always hit me up as I have all of his contact info.

LOL now you should be out of excuses to run your old amps. LOL

I just wish I could get him to rebuild my oldest Kicker amps. RF only.

[Symmetry9898]

Awesome info mayne... I will keep this in mind when im putting these ancient relics in the snailblazer. I shouldnt have any problems with them though really since im not putting them under a low impedance (on my components and such) .

[bigredishott]

I say bump it! I love old skool equipment! I wish I had all my old amps still.

[MrSoundz]

This is good stuff and what I was looking for.

Thanks

I just installed my new RF BD1000a1 and Power 400a4 last week and will never look back. The BD1000a1 never gets hot.

[MrSoundz]

Before I say anything Is that a Kicker ZR600 in the pic that has the only Kicker amp in it?

To your question,

Yes yes and yes.

Dude there is nothing wrong with running old school amps. Leaving my financial issues aside I like to run tried and true products.

There are acouple of items that are out there I know that I would love to run but in the end I have hunted down and chosen products that have stood the test of time and I still consider a fair amount of my equipment top of the line even though my RF subwoofer amps were discontinued in 2003 and my Kicker ZR360s and ZR1000s were put out of production at the end of 2001.

As for subwoofers I'm usually a Kicker guy(whitch I seem to have a decent amount of older Kicker subs but no yellow label series) but I have had a hard on for RF Punch HX2s as long as they were dual 2 ohm versions for years and just aquired a set of fair to good condition Punch HX2 15s that are D2s and now that I have found the rite glue I now have a brand new set of D2 10 inch HX2s that I reconed so I call them new.

As far as your amps go I say run them! those amps have stood the test of time and infact when I had a few to many amps laying around I sold my Punch 200ix to my niebor(LOL not before I had a Punch 225.2 from 97 in my hands first) and that damn 1995 200ix is still working great for him.

I also have a Punch 40ix like you have and would be willing to use it in a heart beat if I had a small system to do and I have its later model the Punch 40.2 with the X-card (same as(era) my Punch 225.2) and that dirty little brick of an amp will handle a nominal 2 ohm load bridged all day every day without problems. ( 3 different personal installs all 2 ohm bridged on my Punch 40)

Man I would like to see you run them and to be quite honest you should be pretty proud about it.

I'm not going to leave without one negative thing though but not a huge deal and nothing to even think about if used on subs was I did notice going from the DSM200 and DSM200ix to the Punch 225.2 witch is the same as the 200x2 with the Trans-ana circuit that there was a very noticable difference in sound quality out put for the better might I add.

Hell yes run them old DSM amps you have and maybe use the Kicker on your subs if you want.

I'm broke and won't have money any time soon but I want to know the deal on your Kicker ZR or XS amp that is in the pics you shared.

I probably want it but again I'm broke with no income forseen in the near future.

Still want details though.

Enjoy your old school setup man.

This is the same reason why I decided to go back to old school. I love the heaviness of the amps. Circa RF 1997-2000 had extremely heavy heatsinks, durability and excellent sound quality and I like the way they look. Many of the amps around the 1997-2000 era were built that way. Kicker, Lanzar Opti, RF, MTX, MMATS, etc. They are built solid and differently that today's amplifiers. Plus, I like the way they look as well.

At first I was nervous about it but shit I am the only one listening to my system with the exception of a few buddies and it's my ears and preferences and I know that these amps will last and last and run as long as I take care of them. And if they break down, I know where to get them fixed plus I have backups.

[arthurk]

Oh yeah, install those great old amps. I used to have a bunch of those and they sounded great.

[Stephen]

i have 2 "old schools" soundstream granite 180.6 (30w x6) amp and a US AMPS HC50A. the soudstream is not in use but the US AMPS is bridged on a 2 ohm load. they are rated down to 1 ohm bridged. but its on a pair of OLD kicker comp 10's from 94