My Audiopipe amp is not bad at all for the price

[mugen08 10+ year member]

If somebody has never heard anything like it they are going to be impressed.

I'm 32 and have had and heard a lot of systems since my first one in 1997. My friends that heard it are between 20-40 years old, all had several systems. Like I said, 95% of the people out there would be perfectly happy with this amp without wasting money and spending 3x what they could get this amp for.

One can choose to believe what people type about amps in the review section of online stores, or you can actually watch videos of the amp getting clamped/on a scope. These amps are garbage. Some people may have gotten away with running them at .5 because of the rise they have, but running an ap at .5 is just exponentially increasing the risk of failure. Expect 1/2 rated on a good day if you run AP and set your gain correctly.

I don't see why you people keep saying this. I'm talking about the AP series, not the APSM. There have been at least 6 clamp tests done on the AP series amps, and only one has shown a poor result; a tester that has not ever tested anything else on this particular bench. All the other bench tests show they do rated, one guy got 1225 clean watts on the 1500 which is **** good for a $150 (new) amp.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Best troll thread on here in months. Thanks for the laughs, OP.

 

[SounDrive Pro Seller]

I'm 32 and have had and heard a lot of systems since my first one in 1997. My friends that heard it are between 20-40 years old, all had several systems. Like I said, 95% of the people out there would be perfectly happy with this amp without wasting money and spending 3x what they could get this amp for.


I don't see why you people keep saying this. I'm talking about the AP series, not the APSM. There have been at least 6 clamp tests done on the AP series amps, and only one has shown a poor result; a tester that has not ever tested anything else on this particular bench. All the other bench tests show they do rated, one guy got 1225 clean watts on the 1500 which is **** good for a $150 (new) amp.

You realize that the AP3000 is nothing more than two of the crappy 1500s internally strapped, right? So your statement is false

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

Pro rabbit lives in OKC I believe. I just PM'ed him to see if he can clamp it; I believe he has an O-scope and all

 

[DRS0105]

The question still hasn't been answered: why buy a sub as expensive as a XXX and then go cheap on possibly the most important piece of equipment in the entire setup?

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

2560 watts at 12.5 volts/ 3.7ohms

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

The question still hasn't been answered: why buy a sub as expensive as a XXX and then go cheap on possibly the most important piece of equipment in the entire setup?

Because i read nothing but positive reviews on the amp. And honestly, it does great even at 4 ohms. People always like to drop misconceptions, like e XXX ia weak sub; motor isn't strong enough to reach full excursion.... Well I can tell you, in a small sealed box this amp, at 4 ohms, pushes it to at least 3" P-P excursion, with the gains set at about 1/3.

Once again, people spouting off about stuff they've never ran.

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

Another clamp test. He did not scope it but he did mention that he ran it full tilt for 2 hrs before the test and it wasn't even hot, and sounded clean so he assumed no clipping...

So tonight we took a few hours and sdelthon and myself did some testing on one of my Audiopipe AP3000Ds, I havent clamped one of these for some time now, and wanted to do a nice lil test and result page about them!!

Car used sdelthons 94 T-Bird

Deck used Sony CDX-GT63UIW 2volt preouts

Stock ALT

1 run of 1/0 Audiopipe power

2 Treo SSX100Bs and a Treo SSX75B

1 Ap3000D

2 Treo SSPs 10s dual 2s reading slightly different, final ohm load before rise coming out at 3ohms

Ohm Load calculated after imp rise

So after 2 hrs of play time and a weak charging system the amp is still very strong, and if we could hold in that 14volt range at 2-2.5ohms we will be able to get all of 3kw+ like rated then some, so for $299shipped with warranty these are the best amps on the market for the money, and ill be running 4 of them!!!

Audiopipe AP3000s amp gain lil below half

Test#1

Resting voltage-12.50volts

Voltage drop-11.6volts

Power-2014.32rms wattage

Ohm load-3.77

Amps Voltage-87.2

Amp Current-23.1

50hz test tone

Deck sublevel at +6 out of 10

Volume 30/50

Test #2

Resting voltage-13.88

Voltage drop-12.5volts

Power-2489rms wattage

Ohm load-3.6

Amps Voltage-95.0

Amp Current-26.2

50hz test tone

Deck sublevel at 10 out of 10

Volume 30/50

　

　

Amp gain lil over 1/2

Test #3

Resting voltage-13.83

Voltage drop-12.5

Power-2675.34rms wattage

Ohm load-3.7ohm

Amps Voltage-100.2

Amp Current-26.7

50hz test tone

Deck sublevel at 10 out of 10

Volume 30/50

Final test with video

Resting voltage-13.66

Voltage drop-12.4

Power-2525.95rms wattage

Ohm load-4.208

Amps Voltage-103.1

Amp Current-24.5

50hz test tone

Deck sublevel at 10 out of 10

Volume 35/50

 

[Full Tilt 10+ year member]

LOL maybe used

And it'd probably outlast a new AP3K. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

Well i finally bought a ap3000d and decided to clamp it. I have 0 guage wire, big three, stock 140 amp alternator and two orielly dry cells. The numbers are pretty close to the same as other that clamped them. The sub is a dual 4ohm audiopipe txxapx12bl, was very surprise it was able take that much power.

Starting Voltage 13.8

Ending Voltage 12.9

Starting ohm load 2

Impedance Rise 4.2

Ac Voltage 101

Ac Amps 23.8

Power 2403.80

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

And it'd probably outlast a new AP3K. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

Uhm, what about a used AP3K, should be half the price of your used amp, right?

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

"I've had 12 of them, and they have saved me a lot of money never cost me any, wait I still have iowa midwest spl records from these amps u got about the same exact numbers I got when I clamped mine, Treo15x2 here on caco clamped two on 16volts was getting like 8k out of the pair, and like 153s with 4 12s, ya they are solid for the money!! "

 

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"Just ran some test with a Silver Audiopipe ap30001d hooked up to a 15" DB Drive PLT15wd. I have the amp running at 1ohm. My electrical is a stock 105 amp alt with a Old Stock battery up front. 3 Stinger SPV70 batteries in the back. Single run of 1/0 from front to back

My voltage was right around 13.8 dropping to 12.3 on the last test

80v

37.8 amps

2.1 ohms

3024 watts

Im pretty impressed by this amp. I did about 8 runs to get this number and it seems like i can just keep turning the knob and it will get louder and louder. I was scared for the sub"

 

[SounDrive Pro Seller]

Either this amp is SEVERELY underrated due to putting out over 2k after rising to 4 ohms... Or more likely, those clamps are BS.

TLDR version of this entire thread: not sure if OP is trolling or retarded

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

"did more testing yesterday with the AP1800s and got some better results on the dds. first part of the video shows one amp being tested and last test shows both amps strapped at 1ohm each test started at 1ohm

one amp starting at 1ohm

48hz - 147.9 - 1488.94 watts

21.8 amps

68.3 ac

14.64 v drop

3.13 ohms

50hz - 147.8 - 1420.02 watts

20.7 amps

68.6 ac

14.57 v drop

3.31 ohms

52hz - 147.5 - 1450.53 watts

21.3 amps

68.1 ac

14.65 v drop

3.19 ohms

54hz - 147.1 - 1466.92 watts

21.7 amps

67.6 ac

14.66 v drop

3.11 ohms

sealed up certified score

50hz - 148.7 - 1432.08 watts

20.4 amps

70.2ac

14.66 v drop

3.44ohms

both amps strapped at 1ohm

50hz - 151 - 2949.84 watts

30.6 amps

96.4 ac

11.03 v drop

3.15 ohms

151.1 was best certified score with both amps strapped"

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Either this amp is SEVERELY underrated due to putting out over 2k after rising to 4 ohms... Or more likely, those clamps are BS.
TLDR version of this entire thread: not sure if OP is trolling or retarded

I'm guessing they where clamped with peak hold if it was real. Making it higher then it should have been