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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 4928486" data-attributes="member: 550915">Right now nothing.&nbsp; Sitting in the garage ready to be installed are a trio of Sundown amps.&nbsp; In the past I&#039;ve used almost exclusively Orion HCCA amps that I&#039;ve had for close to 13 years now.&nbsp; I got them back when there was no such thing as a budget amp worth having.An amp that measures the same (or inaudibly close to the same) will sound the same.&nbsp; There is no reason whatsoever to spends thousands of dollars chasing some mystical sound.&nbsp; If you want 100w for your system, it makes a lot more sense to me to buy a 200w budget amp and only try to get 100w out of it, keeping it well in its comfort zone where it will measure really well, than it does to drop a lot of $$$ on some 100w amp that brags about how far beyond inaudible its THD is, adding a 0 into the price for every 0 in the THD measurement.&nbsp; This is then attached to a set of speakers that are going to have distortion possibly into the double digits.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard systems using cheap amps that sound like trash, but pretty much every one of those were setup by morons.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard systems that sounded amazing built on budget amps that were smartly utilized.&nbsp; The system cost a lot less than one using big dollar elite amps and sounded just as good.&nbsp; Speakers and install/tuning matter in the final sound of the system amps don&#039;t.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 4928486, member: 550915"] Right now nothing. Sitting in the garage ready to be installed are a trio of Sundown amps. In the past I've used almost exclusively Orion HCCA amps that I've had for close to 13 years now. I got them back when there was no such thing as a budget amp worth having. An amp that measures the same (or inaudibly close to the same) will sound the same. There is no reason whatsoever to spends thousands of dollars chasing some mystical sound. If you want 100w for your system, it makes a lot more sense to me to buy a 200w budget amp and only try to get 100w out of it, keeping it well in its comfort zone where it will measure really well, than it does to drop a lot of $$$ on some 100w amp that brags about how far beyond inaudible its THD is, adding a 0 into the price for every 0 in the THD measurement. This is then attached to a set of speakers that are going to have distortion possibly into the double digits. I've heard systems using cheap amps that sound like trash, but pretty much every one of those were setup by morons. I've heard systems that sounded amazing built on budget amps that were smartly utilized. The system cost a lot less than one using big dollar elite amps and sounded just as good. Speakers and install/tuning matter in the final sound of the system amps don't. [/QUOTE]

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