Amps for my speakers...

[lexiphanic 10+ year member]

Alright, here is what I have now, and below is what I plan on ending up with:

Rear speakers are Infinity Kappa 6x9s 115 watts rms

Sub is Infinity Perfect 12.1 in a sealed box. 350 watts rms

I have one factory speaker in my right door that occasionally makes sad and limping noises. I have no idea what it's rating is except that it is blown, blown, blown.

Powering the sub and the rears is a Soundstorm Stretch Daddy amplifier. Their 2000watt four channel one. This amp doesn't do bad for what I paid, but it starts distorting at about 80% of the head unit's max volume.

Now, I will soon be making a custom sealed box out of the best 1" thick board money can buy. This will house two 12" subs in it.

So, the system will soon be two 12" infinity perfect subs wired at 2 ohms mono. They can handle 350 watts RMS

Two infinity kappa 6x9s that can handle 115watts rms

Two infinity kappa 4.25"s that can handle 75 watts rms.

Now, I am looking for two amps (maybe three) that will power my speakers really really well.

After some research I have been thinking about going with the Tsunami DB1100 (1x650wrms@2ohms) for the subs. Either that or the JBL 1200.1(1x600wrms@2ohms).

For the mids and highs I was looking at either the AXT 800.4 (4x125wrms@4 ohms) or the Blaupunkt PA 4100 (4x100wrms@4 ohms)

One final kinda crazy idea I had was to buy one amp for the 6x9s and one for the 4.25s. Kinda of a fun idea, but I'm not sure how practical.

Let me know what you think, or post your own ideas for my setup. Any input appreciated.

Oh yeah, I can get the tsunami for about $240, the JBL for about $200, the PA 4100 for about $300 and the AXT 800.4 for about $300.

Thanks,

Lexi

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[lexiphanic 10+ year member]

Also, my current Stretch Daddy amp seems to distort the mids first, then the lows, finally the highs. Is that possible?

 

[Mac11 10+ year member]

take that amp and burn it.....its killing your speakers

get components for the front(infinity if you want) and get the hifonics andromeda amp

125 X 4 @ 4 ohm

will do some rediculous thing like 700 x 2 bridged@2ohm

so do like you have now with channel 1/2 running your front components and bridge channel 3 + 4 to run your subs. run your rear fill off the head unit. check out http://www.thezeb.com for the amp. i believe it runs about 600$ or so

 

[Bavarian3 10+ year member]

lemme add for ur sub box u wana buy 3/4 Mdf wood. nothing else.

 

[lexiphanic 10+ year member]

The box is being made out of super high density particle board. 1 1/4 thick.

The Andromeda looks nice, but I'm steering more towards the new tripath chip stuff for it's higher efficiencies.

I didn't see anywhere what the Andromeda did for it's power switching.

Finally, I don't ever let the Soundstorm amp clip my speakers, I always have it a couple of notches below noticeable distortion. I am unaware if it is still damaging my speakers.

 

[lexiphanic 10+ year member]

So you would go more for just having great sound up front and letting the HU run the rears? I had never thought of that....

Is it tough to build your own kick panels? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Mac11 10+ year member]

i dont know if it is tripath or not but what exactly is so special about them?

that andromedia would be pretty **** efficient or something pushing that much power. m guessing around 75%

for any info on it check out http://www.maxxsonics.com/

 

[lexiphanic 10+ year member]

My cousin's dad has been a carpenter for about 26 years. This is the densest wood you can get on the market. You can get medium density particle board at menards, home depot and lowes. This is the stuff that is rather difficult to get at a consumer level

Oh, and Mac11 the deal with the class 't' amplifiers is it basically delivers the efficiencies of a class 'D' amp only with the range of an 'AB' amp.