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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 1558745" data-attributes="member: 550915">Meh,&nbsp; Adcom came out in the mid 90&#039;s, that&#039;s not old school.&nbsp; They were sweet though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gifI remember dreaming about building a system with the little tiny half ohm stable US Amps model (12.5 watts per channel @ 4 ohms) for the subs and its 2 ohm stable little brother to compete in IASCA 0-50 category.&nbsp; This was back when they were based in Florida.Whoever mentioned the Soundstream Class A 5.0 and 10.0, those weren&#039;t even the original Class A&#039;s from Soundstream.&nbsp; The 3.0 and 6.0 were older and the 50 and 100 were older still.I always wanted the PPI 2350 matched pair that the shop near my house had.&nbsp; He also had a harmon/kardon CA260 in the same case.&nbsp; On the demo board he had his baby, a Hafler amp, don&#039;t remember the model number but it was sweet.I almost bought a couple of Rodek amps back in the day.&nbsp; Solid power blocks those were.No one has mentioned a/d/s either.&nbsp; Solid amps.&nbsp; Not a ton of power but nothing made a ton of power back then and you didn&#039;t have the power ***** subs of today to deal with either.There was also Nakamichi.&nbsp; Excellent but really expensive amps.How about some of the imports from back then?Sentrek anyone?&nbsp; As long as you didn&#039;t push them hard, they were fine but they didn&#039;t do well at high volume.Targa?&nbsp; A shop I went to from time to time used these all the time.&nbsp; They would get an amp twice the side that they needed for the application and set the gain low.&nbsp; In that configuration they sounded good and they were still cheaper than a US made amp of the same power than they were actually putting out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 1558745, member: 550915"] Meh, Adcom came out in the mid 90's, that's not old school. They were sweet though [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] I remember dreaming about building a system with the little tiny half ohm stable US Amps model (12.5 watts per channel @ 4 ohms) for the subs and its 2 ohm stable little brother to compete in IASCA 0-50 category. This was back when they were based in Florida. Whoever mentioned the Soundstream Class A 5.0 and 10.0, those weren't even the original Class A's from Soundstream. The 3.0 and 6.0 were older and the 50 and 100 were older still. I always wanted the PPI 2350 matched pair that the shop near my house had. He also had a harmon/kardon CA260 in the same case. On the demo board he had his baby, a Hafler amp, don't remember the model number but it was sweet. I almost bought a couple of Rodek amps back in the day. Solid power blocks those were. No one has mentioned a/d/s either. Solid amps. Not a ton of power but nothing made a ton of power back then and you didn't have the power ***** subs of today to deal with either. There was also Nakamichi. Excellent but really expensive amps. How about some of the imports from back then? Sentrek anyone? As long as you didn't push them hard, they were fine but they didn't do well at high volume. Targa? A shop I went to from time to time used these all the time. They would get an amp twice the side that they needed for the application and set the gain low. In that configuration they sounded good and they were still cheaper than a US made amp of the same power than they were actually putting out. [/QUOTE]

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