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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8832213" data-attributes="member: 614752">Now show me a car audio product from any of them that&#039;s marked &quot;Made in Japan&quot; that I can buy retail right now.I&#039;m saying if you believe you can hear the difference with both being run below clipping and EQ&#039;d as needed you can take Richard Clark&#039;s money.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always maintained that there are valid reasons to buy a higher quality (read: more expensive) amp but being able to hear the difference is almost never going to be one of them.&nbsp; It&#039;s interesting you use Boss as your whipping boy here, but when they came out in the late 90s they were built in Simi Valley at Zed Audio using most of the same innards and designs as the US Acoustics.&nbsp; In fact Stephen told me that he had an extremely low return/failure rate with many of those Boss branded amps.&nbsp;&nbsp; As you insinuate the issue that gave them the reputation they have today (among the initiated) is that they have a &quot;max power&quot; rating stamped on the heat sink that is 5-10X what they will actually do, but there was nothing wrong with the sound, I&#039;ve used several with fine results.&nbsp;&nbsp; That all said, right now the circuits they&#039;re using are just copies of amp designs that have been around for decades and apart from grossly exaggerated power and dubious QC and build quality I don&#039;t imagine they have all that much trouble and I&#039;d go as far as to say that if you&#039;re willing to pay a buck a watt (or more) you&#039;d get the same place buying one expensive amp now and holding it 20 years as buying Boss (or whatever) at a dime a watt and just throwing them away and buying a new one when and if they fail along the way.In any event, Mark Wahlberg isn&#039;t a boy band anymore and 12v electronics isn&#039;t coming from Japan and California.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8832213, member: 614752"] Now show me a car audio product from any of them that's marked "Made in Japan" that I can buy retail right now. I'm saying if you believe you can hear the difference with both being run below clipping and EQ'd as needed you can take Richard Clark's money. I've always maintained that there are valid reasons to buy a higher quality (read: more expensive) amp but being able to hear the difference is almost never going to be one of them. It's interesting you use Boss as your whipping boy here, but when they came out in the late 90s they were built in Simi Valley at Zed Audio using most of the same innards and designs as the US Acoustics. In fact Stephen told me that he had an extremely low return/failure rate with many of those Boss branded amps. As you insinuate the issue that gave them the reputation they have today (among the initiated) is that they have a "max power" rating stamped on the heat sink that is 5-10X what they will actually do, but there was nothing wrong with the sound, I've used several with fine results. That all said, right now the circuits they're using are just copies of amp designs that have been around for decades and apart from grossly exaggerated power and dubious QC and build quality I don't imagine they have all that much trouble and I'd go as far as to say that if you're willing to pay a buck a watt (or more) you'd get the same place buying one expensive amp now and holding it 20 years as buying Boss (or whatever) at a dime a watt and just throwing them away and buying a new one when and if they fail along the way. In any event, Mark Wahlberg isn't a boy band anymore and 12v electronics isn't coming from Japan and California. [/QUOTE]

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