2k was pretty good for the 90s? it was nearly top of the tree from what i can recall. Plus this thing didnt have a very big footprint, which is likely what caused its instability issues. @bigblank69 if anyone has one on offer, you should totally do it (advising them of the potential of it exploding, of course). Not many amps of this era did over 2k watts shy of the PPI PC21400. Has that model been bench tested yet? I really dislike the term "dyno" for ampsTheyre still around. Went the way of hiphonics, soundstream, usamps, tho.
The d2 was legendary, it was rated at 2k rms in the late 90's, which was pretty good back then. All kinds of stories of it being really underrated.
VERY unstable tho. Breath on them wrong and theyll blow
It's been a lot of beers since the 90's, i know us amos had the vlx4000, i really cant think of any amos that did over 2k during that time.....maybe kicker? Hifonics? Sounstream?2k was pretty good for the 90s? it was nearly top of the tree from what i can recall. Plus this thing didnt have a very big footprint, which is likely what caused its instability issues. @bigblank69 if anyone has one on offer, you should totally do it (advising them of the potential of it exploding, of course). Not many amps of this era did over 2k watts shy of the PPI PC21400. Has that model been bench tested yet? I really dislike the term "dyno" for amps
IIRC there was a Hifonics Colossus (two Zeus boards in one heatsink) which would make around 2K. I do know they had a reputation for blowing up but I'm pretty certain the guys in the lanes with them were running them way below rated impedance. I sold a sub on this forum to a guy who was using one 7 years ago or so. Can't remember who it was though, but he didn't have any complaints.It's been a lot of beers since the 90's, i know us amos had the vlx4000, i really cant think of any amos that did over 2k during that time.....maybe kicker? Hifonics? Sounstream?
Never heard that, ***** tho cause those old amps were awesome.IIRC there was a Hifonics Colossus (two Zeus boards in one heatsink) which would make around 2K. I do know they had a reputation for blowing up but I'm pretty certain the guys in the lanes with them were running them way below rated impedance. I sold a sub on this forum to a guy who was using one 7 years ago or so. Can't remember who it was though, but he didn't have any complaints.
Can't speak for anybody else but I know Stephen Mantz (Zed) told me that in the late 90s some legislation basically broke amp manufacturing in the USA. He was making Boss amps at the time and employing 100 people.... something to do with having to provide health insurance or something I believe the story was. Many of those companies were in SoCal and pretty much all of them folded or outsourced manufacturing to the far east around then so I'd suspect there's something there.
I can think of the Colossus and the big US amps. Soundstream never made any big big mono amps IIRC all their huge limited edition amps were multichannels, same with PPI and Phoenix Gold. Doing a little digging, PH2 Earthquake may have even been 2000-2001 release so may be a bit later than we thought. There just wasn't much pre class D that was much over 1000W.Im really trying to think of 2k amps from before 2000