audison lrx 1.400

[userdel 10+ year member]

ok, i'm thinking about getting this for my idmax 12 v3 d2, good match? only thing i'm worried about is not having a cooling fan. last thing i wanna do is spend $400 on an amp that overheats all the time. anyone have any experience with this amp? worth the money??

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[adam71 5,000+ posts]

How do you know it's going to over heat? What load are you going to run it at?? A cooling fan isn't necessary unless you're going to be driving the hell out of it.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

And drive the hell out of it while it is in a tiny box with no air holes. Audison builds a solid amp. As long as you don't set the gains to the point of clipping, it shouldn't have any problems.

BTW, I would say that close to 90% of the amps out there worth having DON'T have cooling fans. This is for the simple reason that the engineer who designed it spec'd an adequate heatsink for the job rather than trying to make do with and undersized sink and adding a fan as a band aid fix.

 

[userdel 10+ year member]

i'm gonna run it at 1 ohm. probably for a couple hours each day. i'm not saying it's going to overheat, i'm asking if it is? for $400 you think they could have thrown a cooling fan in that bad boy. seems like a solid amp though, maybe i'll just order it and find out.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

If it doesn't need a fan then adding one is pointless and a waste of money. I ran an Orion 250hcca (no fan and Class A/B so much less efficient thus generating more heat) for several years @ 1 ohm without any problems. If a fan was needed for the design, there would be one. It isn't so there isn't.

 

[userdel 10+ year member]

good point. i'm gonna be properly setting my gains accordingly of course, and i'm not gonna crank up the volume til my ears bleed, so i should be happy with this amp. thanks for the input, now i'm gonna order one.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

Are you just running the one sub?? If so I'm assuming it's a dual 2 ohm sub.??

 

[userdel 10+ year member]

yes, one sub, dual 2 ohm.