How is this possible?

[cfox10 10+ year member]

Dumb question... But

I hooked my rockford 20001bd to my friends system.. No louder than his pyle amp.

Why is that?

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[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Either weak signal, not enough current to feed the rockford, subwoofer speaker wire too small, amp wiring too small.. list goes on and on.

 

[macsdad 10+ year member]

When I was climbing the ladder from bs amps to the higher quality stuff, the main diff I noticed was not necessarily louder, but the better amps produced a bass with depth or with more authority.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Dumb question... But
I hooked my rockford 20001bd to my friends system.. No louder than his pyle amp.

Why is that?

he doesnt have enough electrical to support a decent amp.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

Pyle does dbeeeeez bro!

 

[cfox10 10+ year member]

J

he doesnt have enough electrical to support a decent amp.

I figured that was the case. Ive never ran stuff in my own vehicles without proper electrical. Im assuming it was maxing out the current his wire would handle.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

I'm surprised Pyle is still hanging around.

late 80's/early 90's is when they peaked for their stuff being good and then went downhill afterwords.

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

It should be double in loudness. the most powerful amp pyle makes does 900w on a good day.

 

[cfox10 10+ year member]

It should be double in loudness. the most powerful amp pyle makes does 900w on a good day.

Probably would be, however i know i was maxing out the power wire. Stock electrical etc.

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

Probably would be, however i know i was maxing out the power wire. Stock electrical etc.

No bueno.

 

[fly_marlin]

When I was climbing the ladder from bs amps to the higher quality stuff, the main diff I noticed was not necessarily louder, but the better amps produced a bass with depth or with more authority.

That's where the real difference is. As you dig deeper, the more (a lot more) power is needed. Amps with real power can supply it, pretenders cannot.

OP, what subs were they? If the pyle amp already got subs to full excursion, doubt you'll hear a difference.

 

[cfox10 10+ year member]

That's where the real difference is. As you dig deeper, the more (a lot more) power is needed. Amps with real power can supply it, pretenders cannot.
OP, what subs were they? If the pyle amp already got subs to full excursion, doubt you'll hear a difference.

MTX 9500's highly doubt the pyle got them to full excursion. They are in a very small sealed box in the back of an extended cab. It was more or less for fun - but it was stupid to put my amp on his electrical - He was running what looked like 8g wire and it was Boss Audio brand. I'm sure if it was on for too long it would start heating the wire up since it was trying to pull too much current.

Why he has two 9500's on a small (barely larger than my palm pyle amp) and boss wiring baffles me.

I'm now trying to decide if I want to build a system in my crew cab truck or my hatchback scion tc. It'll be for daily, my Hyundai has my big system in it. Even a small build on the rockford will rattle the hell out of the hatchback and I'm not wanting to spend a boat load of cash sound proofing everything...on the other hand I don't want to lose space in my truck lol.. what to do?!

 

[fly_marlin]

MTX 9500's highly doubt the pyle got them to full excursion. They are in a very small sealed box in the back of an extended cab. It was more or less for fun - but it was stupid to put my amp on his electrical - He was running what looked like 8g wire and it was Boss Audio brand. I'm sure if it was on for too long it would start heating the wire up since it was trying to pull too much current.
Why he has two 9500's on a small (barely larger than my palm pyle amp) and boss wiring baffles me.

I'm now trying to decide if I want to build a system in my crew cab truck or my hatchback scion tc. It'll be for daily, my Hyundai has my big system in it. Even a small build on the rockford will rattle the hell out of the hatchback and I'm not wanting to spend a boat load of cash sound proofing everything...on the other hand I don't want to lose space in my truck lol.. what to do?!

Start a new thread for starters lol

 

[macsdad 10+ year member]

That's where the real difference is. As you dig deeper, the more (a lot more) power is needed. Amps with real power can supply it, pretenders cannot.
OP, what subs were they? If the pyle amp already got subs to full excursion, doubt you'll hear a difference.

And as we, who have been doing this for a while can attest, it takes power to make power.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

J
I figured that was the case. Ive never ran stuff in my own vehicles without proper electrical. Im assuming it was maxing out the current his wire would handle.

My brx2400.1 at 1 ohm barely put out anymore power than a kenwood 500 rms at 4 ohms because it was 4 gauge cca wire on stock electrical. The brx puts out waaaay more in my vehicles electrical with proper ofc wire gauge