cheapo amps

[Pattw555]

Hey, I've been looking through the forums for a few days now and had a few questions and was hoping yall could help me.

I'm looking for an extremely cheap amp, i need 400-500 watts rms @ 2 ohms and i can only spend 100-110$ shipped i have looked around and these are the amps i have come up with.

this Dual XIA1000

http://www.beachaudio.com/Dual/Xia1000-p-64708.html?utm_campaign=froogle&utm_content=AD_ID&utm_term=xia1000&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=froogle&GTKW=xia1000&GCID=C12585x003

this cadence amp (its a boat amp, does that make any difference?)

http://cgi.ebay.com/CADENCE-MARINE-BOAT-500-WATT-RMS-MONO-AMPLIFIER-SUB-AMP_W0QQitemZ270157342719QQihZ017QQcategoryZ64570QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and then i was looking at other brands such as cruch, lanzar, and hifonics. Out of these brands what do you think would work the best?

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[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

profile! get ya an ap1000 500 at 2

 

[truckramrod 10+ year member]

http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/CarAudio/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=12378

I picked this up for my girlfriends car. It's efficient and powerful and the sound is pretty clean. The only downfall for this amp is it tends to get hot and will overheat if ran hard.

To fix that problem I mounted mounted a 60mm diameter 1/2 inch thick computer cooling fan on one end of the bottom plate and cut some vent holes on the other end of the plate and mounted the amp to 2 pieces of 2X4 blocks of wood that I glued to the back of the box.

BTW you can remove that ugly teal "cover and the amp will look much better. It' looks pretty good matched up with the white Kappa Perfect 12s in her car.

 

[mabel4life 10+ year member]

profile! get ya an ap1000 500 at 2

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