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<blockquote data-quote="tunes" data-source="post: 2528656" data-attributes="member: 572821">helotaxi, you make excellent points and by no means did you &quot;rain on my parade,&quot; - I&#039;m just happy people remember these long forgotten companies at all.&nbsp; Regional popularity is certainly a factor that I think is not taken into consideration often enough.&nbsp; Where I live no one had heard of Phoenix Gold when I bought my M series amps, although in other parts they had already established a die hard following.The reason HART interests me is because I can think of dozens of old amplifiers from that era that I&#039;d take over practically anything made today - PPI Art series, Phoenix Gold, Hifonics, Zapco, Earthquake, hell, even Phase Linear - but can&#039;t think of any particularly memorable speakers (not to say HART speakers are better than anything today, just saying that IMO they were better than anything else I tried at their time).&nbsp; It just seems like for the most part amps just got more boring and more shoddily made, while everything else in car audio improved exponentially.&nbsp; But I digress...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tunes, post: 2528656, member: 572821"] helotaxi, you make excellent points and by no means did you "rain on my parade," - I'm just happy people remember these long forgotten companies at all. Regional popularity is certainly a factor that I think is not taken into consideration often enough. Where I live no one had heard of Phoenix Gold when I bought my M series amps, although in other parts they had already established a die hard following. The reason HART interests me is because I can think of dozens of old amplifiers from that era that I'd take over practically anything made today - PPI Art series, Phoenix Gold, Hifonics, Zapco, Earthquake, hell, even Phase Linear - but can't think of any particularly memorable speakers (not to say HART speakers are better than anything today, just saying that IMO they were better than anything else I tried at their time). It just seems like for the most part amps just got more boring and more shoddily made, while everything else in car audio improved exponentially. But I digress... [/QUOTE]

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