good SQ amp for a 12W7

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

to some.

true

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

I can make that MOSFET amp sound just like that tube amp with a $5 resistor.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

amps don't make SQ. SQ is all processing, drivers, driver placement, and tuning. amps should not decide SQ.

if the amp is affecting your SQ it's broken.

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

I can make that MOSFET amp sound just like that tube amp with a $5 resistor.

how doesthat work?

 

[Parker G 10+ year member]

Link 2 Sundown Audio SAE-1000's together

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

i believe some Pheonix Gold amps do rated power 1-4ohm just like the JL i will search for it really quick.

EDIT: This is the Pg amp i am talking about

 

[alxmlr789 10+ year member]

Alpines are good

alxmlr789----whoa dude, is the speed in your sig legit or what??

yessir, it is legit..

I saw someone today on the forum that was 25,000 so i decided to test mine.. I had no idea it was close to 40k lol.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

how doesthat work?

Increase output resistance, decrease damping factor.

 

[darqnez 10+ year member]

Mines 25000+ at home, but yours is just crazy fast is that on campus or home?

to the OP, most all of the mentioned amps are good choices, ill throw in the Phoenix Gold Tantrum 1200.1, they usually birthed around 1400+ at 4 ohm bridged and CAN run fine at 2 ohm bridged even though they say not too. I think for a SQ sub their are way better choices than the W7 though, but all this audio stuff is purely subjective so whatever sounds right to you is what counts

yessir, it is legit..
I saw someone today on the forum that was 25,000 so i decided to test mine.. I had no idea it was close to 40k lol.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

to the OP, most all of the mentioned amps are good choices, ill throw in the Phoenix Gold Tantrum 1200.1, they usually birthed around 1400+ at 4 ohm bridged and CAN run fine at 2 ohm bridged even though they say not too. I think for a SQ sub their are way better choices than the W7 though, but all this audio stuff is purely subjective so whatever sounds right to you is what counts

Two things: 1) the 1200.1 is a mono amp and is therefore not bridgeable. 2) I've never seen anywhere that PG doesn't recommend running them into a 2 ohm load. IIRC they're stable down to 1 ohm.

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

I vote Either a JL slash series, hd series, or Alpine pdx series. That way, you don't have to worry about the w7's retarded impedence

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

You don't have to worry about the impedance anyway. It isn't nearly the issue that everyone seems to think that it is.

 

[darqnez 10+ year member]

Two things: 1) the 1200.1 is a mono amp and is therefore not bridgeable. 2) I've never seen anywhere that PG doesn't recommend running them into a 2 ohm load. IIRC they're stable down to 1 ohm.

Yah im incorrect, its already "bridged" internally even though it has 2 sets of "out" connections.

and they do say in my manual here that 2ohm is ok but not to go to 1 ohm, but i also know they are stable at 1ohm, doesnt even get hot. I havent read this for 5 yrs, lol sorry.

 

[XxSuperAdamxX 10+ year member]

I personally would go with the 1000/1. My friend just got his 1000/1 for his 12W7 and the sub never distorted or anything. We kept turning up the volume higher and higher and peaked out at 35 volume for the alpine don't know which model. The sub was still pounding. If the volume level coulda went higher I'm sure the sub woulda continued to hit. So the 1000/1 is your best amp IMO. Also the 1000/1 can go 1.5-4 ohm's stable.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Yah im incorrect, its already "bridged" internally even though it has 2 sets of "out" connections.

There's nothing "bridged" about it. It only has a single channel. Bridged is when two channels are combined to make a single more powerful channel. Since a mono amp only has one (thus "mono") channel there is nothing to bridge. The two sets of output terminals are electrically identical to each other and are only there to make it easier to wire multiple subs to the amp in parallel.