What has been the most reliable amplifier you have actually used yourself to date?

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

Funny thing about old school. Back in 1991 I was sponsored by LA Sound. I blew so many LA Sound amplifiers, it was'nt funny. I still love the looks of the old LA Sound amplifiers but would never buy one.

Anybody remember when Coustic was the hottest thing on the market?

 

[mat3833 10+ year member]

Funny thing about old school. Back in 1991 I was sponsored by LA Sound. I blew so many LA Sound amplifiers, it was'nt funny. I still love the looks of the old LA Sound amplifiers but would never buy one.

Anybody remember when Coustic was the hottest thing on the market?

I had a Coustic Power Logic Amp-268, kinda miss that amp.

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

I had a Coustic Power Logic Amp-268, kinda miss that amp.

Yeah we used to beat the piss out of those old Coustic amps. Never seen one go down unless it was installer error.

 

[djdilliodon!]

PPI PC2150 bought back in 1998 I think. Been in tons of cars bridged on subs and run on highs stereo. Still works like new that thing.

Us amps 1000x bought I believe around 2002 ish. Amp has been on tons of stuff just like the PPI but has been run way harder. Still works like new.

 

[Firewalker]

Coustic used to make those old Radio Shack amplifiers during the '[90s. Those things were rock solid as well had a couple of those and couldn't blow them up when I tried to. So cheap also at the local RS store since I had a friend that worked there,lol. Got them basically at cost.

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

I remember the old Radio Shack (Black) amps. They wouldn't blow up because they were temp protected. They hit like 105 degrees they would shut off

 

[Firewalker]

I never had one shut off even as hard as I pushed them but I also had a bunch of room for airspace so that helped.

 

[Jimi77 5,000+ posts]

I have an old MTX Thunder 275x Gold from around 1996. Still rocks. 380wrms bridged into 4 ohms.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

Funny thing about old school. Back in 1991 I was sponsored by LA Sound. I blew so many LA Sound amplifiers, it was'nt funny. I still love the looks of the old LA Sound amplifiers but would never buy one.

Anybody remember when Coustic was the hottest thing on the market?

I had a couple LA Sound amps. They looked pretty cool with the graphics that was really unique at the time. But man... Those jokers were garbage. I was happy to get them replaced with some Hifonic VIIs. I did run a couple of Coustic power Logic series. Those were some surprising amps for as cheap as they were. I later ended up with the Colustic 380, and a couple 190s that were really decent amps. You could make breakfast on the 380 after pounding for a good two hours. All those got stolen out of my car inside a wrecking yard among quite a bit of audio gear over night that was Gated. deff an inside job.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

PPI PC2150 bought back in 1998 I think. Been in tons of cars bridged on subs and run on highs stereo. Still works like new that thing.

Us amps 1000x bought I believe around 2002 ish. Amp has been on tons of stuff just like the PPI but has been run way harder. Still works like new.

I had two PC250s and a PC275 that were pretty much bullet proof amps. I had them for years. Just recently sold them.Great amps

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I remember the old Radio Shack (Black) amps. They wouldn't blow up because they were temp protected. They hit like 105 degrees they would shut off

I had a 60x60 one(Realistic 60x60). That thing was a Tank, and prob would take up the left side of a sentra back seat. LOL

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I have an old MTX Thunder 275x Gold from around 1996. Still rocks. 380wrms bridged into 4 ohms.

Ive got one old MTX Blue thunder Pro 75.2 left that still works great and has been through some hell and back. UGLY!! Thing weighs about 5 lbs. like a dead weight Brick

 

[djdilliodon!]

I had two PC250s and a PC275 that were pretty much bullet proof amps. I had them for years. Just recently sold them.Great amps

I had 3 pc2150’s all bought at the same time. 2 of them used originally to run 6 JL 8w6’s and the third one for the passive front stage. They been in so many cars and setups till I finally sold 2 of them some years back. The third one is in my buddies work truck on a lower power sub I built him. Still going strong!

 

[Jimi77 5,000+ posts]

Ive got one old MTX Blue thunder Pro 75.2 left that still works great and has been through some hell and back. UGLY!! Thing weighs about 5 lbs. like a dead weight Brick

I think that amp was pretty much the same as Gold series. The MTX started cheapening everything to meet Circuit City price points.

 

[Grimmjoww]

The older Fosgate amps. I have ran them from the time of the punch 50 all the way up to the Power TD1500 amps. These days I don't think you can go wrong with Korean amps for durability. I'm running Brazilians now, cant say much about them except they put out a ton of power.