Kicker Made in China

[georobu 10+ year member]

do explain...I'm curious.

A couple of reasons:

sound quality was bad: background noise, mids and highs were mashed toghether, poor driver control, very little headroom

power: the 4 channel clipped at lower output than the 75 watt per channel polk or Jl slash series even though it was rated at 107 w per channel, audibly weaker than the two. The polk momo 500.1 was superior by far in driving my two kappa perfect subs, more output better damping etc.

construction: I took off the endcaps and I could harldly screw them back in, the threading was poor imo. The amp case felt flimsy.

cooling: fans were very loud, and they would turn on very quickly as the amp shortly started to get hot. without fans I figured they'd go in protection mode rather quickly.

I bought them brand new from Kicker when I worked at Circuitcity, not used, no lemons, no refurbised items.

 

[georobu 10+ year member]

He's an idiot? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Kinda reminds me why I stoped posting on this forum for months at a time. Most users prefer to hear themselves regurgitating rather than listen to other's opinions, which is why we're here in the first place.

 

[Polecat 5,000+ posts]

This is sort of besides the point, but since ive got all the kicker fanatics here, why cant I STILL not get a new coils for my vast collection of 04 L7 10's that are currently holding the cement floor down in my garage? You cant tell me that out of 9 billion L7's made, there werent a few left over somewhere ***LOOKS OVER AT POLECAT*** //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

you can't get them because you can't seem to follow simple postings I have done, like "if you PM me I will see what i can do", i don't take public postings as a job duty //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Polecat 5,000+ posts]

A couple of reasons:sound quality was bad: background noise, mids and highs were mashed toghether, poor driver control, very little headroom

power: the 4 channel clipped at lower output than the 75 watt per channel polk or Jl slash series even though it was rated at 107 w per channel, audibly weaker than the two. The polk momo 500.1 was superior by far in driving my two kappa perfect subs, more output better damping etc.

construction: I took off the endcaps and I could harldly screw them back in, the threading was poor imo. The amp case felt flimsy.

cooling: fans were very loud, and they would turn on very quickly as the amp shortly started to get hot. without fans I figured they'd go in protection mode rather quickly.

I bought them brand new from Kicker when I worked at Circuitcity, not used, no lemons, no refurbised items.

well you'll be there first, maybe the SX DSP was just a bit 'overwhelming', the DSP has way more features and controls then any other amp that I know, and if it is installed incorrectly, and the DSP is setup wrong, you will get all the problems you have...in all the cars I have seen them in, all competition cars/show cars, they ahve plenty of power, EQ'ing and way better SQ then most 'comparable' amps.

 

[georobu 10+ year member]

well you'll be there first, maybe the SX DSP was just a bit 'overwhelming', the DSP has way more features and controls then any other amp that I know, and if it is installed incorrectly, and the DSP is setup wrong, you will get all the problems you have...in all the cars I have seen them in, all competition cars/show cars, they ahve plenty of power, EQ'ing and way better SQ then most 'comparable' amps.

I thought the DSP made it easier to set it up actually. I did however dry to change settings in a desparate attempt to make them sound better with no results to show for it. I do full active systems and I used exactly same xover points, slopes, and no eq'ing. It was a direct amp swap keeping everything else constant.

What do you consider comparable with the kicker sx?

 

[Polecat 5,000+ posts]

well considering there isn't many with the DSP the SX has, not very many, problem is, even some good installers, very good ones, have a hard time figuring out the DSP features. And 4 preset capability.