Are 90% Of Today's Car Amps The Same

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

Any pictures of these water cooled amps, how hard would it be to make an amp today water cooled or acquire one of these old school things. Ive always been interested in them.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

Any pictures of these water cooled amps, how hard would it be to make an amp today water cooled or acquire one of these old school things. Ive always been interested in them.

Negative //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif It has been over 10 years since I have seen or spoken to Craig.

Here is a link to one of the articles, but no photos: http://www.importtuner.com/features/impp_0105_liquid_cooled_pro_20_amps/index.html

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

I am pretty sure PPI actually was the first company to offer water cooling. They offered a kit with the addition of the art series due to lack of heatsink fins.

It was pretty cool until the lines leaked.

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

I am pretty sure PPI actually was the first company to offer water cooling. They offered a kit with the addition of the art series due to lack of heatsink fins.
It was pretty cool until the lines leaked.

Thats a problem on some today. They need to bring this back.

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

These days none of the car companies are doing anything innovative with amps like they used to. We need a good old fashioned company in the US to bring back some creativity with car audio again.

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

http://www.linearpower.com/ is supposedly releasing a new line sometime soon.

Plus the new Zeds seem pretty innovative.

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[MakeshiftAudio 10+ year member]

I have an amp that I could mod a little bit to water cool. xD No reason to though, seeing that it is not going to be used in competitions. The channels are parallel to the fets, on the other side of the 1/8" alu. xD Pointless, just a 2kW amp.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

These days none of the car companies are doing anything innovative with amps like they used to. We need a good old fashioned company in the US to bring back some creativity with car audio again.

I guess there are no companies doing any full-range class D amplifiers.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

I guess there are no companies doing any full-range class D amplifiers.

Yeah, but it took them a while to get there If one thought in terms of innovation with computer processor development, it REALLY took them a long time to get there

ETA: I just have to face reality here. No one really cares about all of us who are into car audio except a select few companies. Pretty sad when you think about it.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

What do you want that isn't being done?

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

Anyone want to do a group buy on these: http://www.himfr.com/d-p11240547692157000-Class-D_Linkable_Mono_%26_Class-Ab_High-Power_Amplifier_(EL-GT-1280/

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[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

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imagine if they started to intall car audio there? bring your car in for a oil change and a amp installed!

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

My Lanzar Optidrive (ZED) 100.4 and 1000.1D have the best and heaviest heatsinks that I have ever seen. Even in 90 degrees weather those amps never got hot. Those amps were made after Soundaround bought Lanzar but were still made in the USA by Steve Mantz of ZED. The internals on those amps are beautiful.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

imagine if they started to intall car audio there? bring your car in for a oil change and a amp installed!

The latest industry rumor that I heard is that Pep Boys will be carrying Kicker AND doing car audio installations Just think, all the ricers will have a one stop shop now:laugh:

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

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