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<blockquote data-quote="o. l. t." data-source="post: 5018819" data-attributes="member: 569202"><p>CLOSE! ...... but no cigar. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I was one of the very first original east coast Ample dealers. Ample DID have two lines, but Exonic didn't come along until the 3rd year.</p><p></p><p>The first year were the A- series and they were in chrome. The AP series were in black with silver highlights.</p><p></p><p>The second year were the X series and they were in brushed metal, the AP series stayed the same.</p><p></p><p>The third year the Exonic line came out. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p></p><p>I still have the original ample banners in both black and white, as well the original dealer invoice brochure. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I even have an original A226 in the closet somewhere and a pair of the original tweeters.</p><p></p><p>We consistently blew the larger names away at sound offs. Ample has all the potential in the world, but you have to set it up even more carefully than normal products. It's really touchy and if you don't get it right, it sounds nasty. If you wanted bang for the buck you used the A226 amp @ 500+ watts. If you wanted to beat the snot out of a couple 12's or 15's you stepped up to the A240. If you wanted to run 4 or more subs you ran the 1200DX and daisy chained them for high power DB drags.</p><p></p><p>The loudest setup we ran in the $500 range was an A226 amp and an aluminum GS Designs GSD12 12" sub in a tuned port box. You couldn't spend less than $1000 anywhere and touch it in 2001. We sold more of those combo's than we could build. I remember being backed up 5 days building tuned port boxes for the GSD 12's.</p><p></p><p>If anyone has a line on an AP series amp, I'm looking for one. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p></p><p>Matter of fact I went out to storage and found the original setup from my sound wall. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif The first A-226 in Chattanooga in 1999 and the first prototype tuned port box I designed for the GSD12.</p><p></p><p>Off the top of my head, it had 13 inches of vertical port, 22 inches of horizontal port and 6 inches wide. The port ran the length of the box inside. Somewhere around 2 cube of space for the box. Hard to remember 8 yrs back.</p><p></p><p>Meanest 12" box I've heard though. Tuned to hit every note possible. It of course had it's sweet spot that I'd set by vehicle, but it was not a one trick box. These days the technology has came so far single 12 setups can run so much wattage in trick boxes the old stuff likely won't hold up against it, I'm guessing. We were doing 250 RMS off the A-226 amps with the single 12" running around 138db A-weighted. Those were good numbers in 1999.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5/audiogodz1/stuff/IMG_6876.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="o. l. t., post: 5018819, member: 569202"] CLOSE! ...... but no cigar. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] I was one of the very first original east coast Ample dealers. Ample DID have two lines, but Exonic didn't come along until the 3rd year. The first year were the A- series and they were in chrome. The AP series were in black with silver highlights. The second year were the X series and they were in brushed metal, the AP series stayed the same. The third year the Exonic line came out. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] I still have the original ample banners in both black and white, as well the original dealer invoice brochure. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] I even have an original A226 in the closet somewhere and a pair of the original tweeters. We consistently blew the larger names away at sound offs. Ample has all the potential in the world, but you have to set it up even more carefully than normal products. It's really touchy and if you don't get it right, it sounds nasty. If you wanted bang for the buck you used the A226 amp @ 500+ watts. If you wanted to beat the snot out of a couple 12's or 15's you stepped up to the A240. If you wanted to run 4 or more subs you ran the 1200DX and daisy chained them for high power DB drags. The loudest setup we ran in the $500 range was an A226 amp and an aluminum GS Designs GSD12 12" sub in a tuned port box. You couldn't spend less than $1000 anywhere and touch it in 2001. We sold more of those combo's than we could build. I remember being backed up 5 days building tuned port boxes for the GSD 12's. If anyone has a line on an AP series amp, I'm looking for one. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] Matter of fact I went out to storage and found the original setup from my sound wall. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] The first A-226 in Chattanooga in 1999 and the first prototype tuned port box I designed for the GSD12. Off the top of my head, it had 13 inches of vertical port, 22 inches of horizontal port and 6 inches wide. The port ran the length of the box inside. Somewhere around 2 cube of space for the box. Hard to remember 8 yrs back. Meanest 12" box I've heard though. Tuned to hit every note possible. It of course had it's sweet spot that I'd set by vehicle, but it was not a one trick box. These days the technology has came so far single 12 setups can run so much wattage in trick boxes the old stuff likely won't hold up against it, I'm guessing. We were doing 250 RMS off the A-226 amps with the single 12" running around 138db A-weighted. Those were good numbers in 1999. [IMG]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5/audiogodz1/stuff/IMG_6876.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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