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<blockquote data-quote="thylantyr" data-source="post: 1556095" data-attributes="member: 560358">Hifonics and Zapco were very well designed and made but I would venture to guess that the others that you saw a bunch of was mainly due not to their inferiority but due to their sheer numbers. They were the in demand item and were fairly commonplace. As a result, I would bet that a lot more of them got abused compared to the Hifonics and Zapco amps. Where I live, 1.5 hours away from Zapco, we saw alot of Zapco, alot of Alphasonik, alot of Linear Power, alot of Hifonics.. later came the Fosgates,PPI&#039;s and Orions... There were plenty of blown Zapco&#039;s sent to the factoryfor repair as I used to talk to the repairman, the reason those amps blewis because user replaced the 20A fuse with a nail because the fuse blewwhen the amp was over-driven beyond it&#039;s ability, so the dummy personwould bypass the fuse thinking it&#039;s a good idea only to have the amp smoke./lol/ ... If you used the product correctly, it was reliable.The other amps mentioned came later in my area..... by then I lost interest incar audio and went into hiding -- lolThe big thing was Zeus and Colossus for the folks who knew better, the trendy stuffwas the Fostgate chromed Power 1000 for $3k... /bleh.. I wasn&#039;t impressed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thylantyr, post: 1556095, member: 560358"] [B]Hifonics and Zapco were very well designed and made but I would venture to guess that the others that you saw a bunch of was mainly due not to their inferiority but due to their sheer numbers. They were the in demand item and were fairly commonplace. As a result, I would bet that a lot more of them got abused compared to the Hifonics and Zapco amps. [/B] Where I live, 1.5 hours away from Zapco, we saw alot of Zapco, alot of Alphasonik, alot of Linear Power, alot of Hifonics.. later came the Fosgates, PPI's and Orions... There were plenty of blown Zapco's sent to the factory for repair as I used to talk to the repairman, the reason those amps blew is because user replaced the 20A fuse with a nail because the fuse blew when the amp was over-driven beyond it's ability, so the dummy person would bypass the fuse thinking it's a good idea only to have the amp smoke. /lol/ ... If you used the product correctly, it was reliable. The other amps mentioned came later in my area..... by then I lost interest in car audio and went into hiding -- lol The big thing was Zeus and Colossus for the folks who knew better, the trendy stuff was the Fostgate chromed Power 1000 for $3k... /bleh.. I wasn't impressed. [/QUOTE]

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