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Eh....aesthetics matter. They're beautiful amps and they put out rated power. Keep in mind how much money people put into the design of their trunks.
They started to look really good in the mid 90's. The Art series really made them big. As for power, meeting rated power was close. Not like the other brands which blew their ratings out of the water. This is why you mainly only saw PPI amps in the unlimited class and the Orion and Fosgate were big in the limited classes. I had a couple art series amps. Mostly because they were THE amps to have in the late 90's. I only sold them because I was offered a lot more than what I paid for them. Speaking of PPI amps, I still have quite a few of those power and speaker plugs in my toolbox. I also still have a box of assorted SIPs for the Xtant X-series amplifiers.
 
Oof. The mighty sure fell.
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Anyone remember EQ/boosters?
Anyone use one?
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Actually these radio shack realistic boosters rocked!! They were rated a 8 ohms and when you hooked them to 4 ohm pioneer 3 or 4 way 6x9 they screamed. We used these in the mid 80's to build our first systems. They also had 15" woofers for $49.99 each. My friend had 2 in a box with a coustic 380 bridged at 300 watts rms in his mustang and it boomed!!
 
Anyone remember EQ/boosters?
Anyone use one?
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Actually these radio shack realistic boosters rocked!! They were rated a 8 ohms and when you hooked them to 4 ohm pioneer 3 or 4 way 6x9 they screamed. We used these in the mid 80's to build our first systems. They also had 15" woofers for $49.99 each. My friend had 2 in a box with a coustic 380 bridged at 300 watts rms in his mustang and it boomed!!

Sry for the double post I was trying to quote and get the pic in but I dont think I can. Now I cant figure out how to delete one.
 
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I love the old ads I have a bunch if someone wants me to post.
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These need to go to a collector also not fully functional so cheap. If you have the sony 1/2 din 11 band eq its an awesome double din setup!!
 
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Pyramid type crap!

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My first speaker box was a pyramid with 4 - 10" I got from a pawn shop for $150 in 1987. I wired them in parallel down to 1.8 or 1.9 ohms. My Majestic 300hd bridged would pump them until the thermal protection would cut off. The amp was so hot you could hold your hand on it. As soon as it cooled down it would play again. Not bad for a broke kid in high school .
 
Found some dealer chum in a box of memories from my shop.
The late great Tom Hoover.

No matter how it shows in my photo timeline, the site wants the second photo to rotate 90°.
Maybe from popping the 'chute on the car...
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My first speaker box was a pyramid with 4 - 10" I got from a pawn shop for $150 in 1987. I wired them in parallel down to 1.8 or 1.9 ohms. My Majestic 300hd bridged would pump them until the thermal protection would cut off. The amp was so hot you could hold your hand on it. As soon as it cooled down it would play again. Not bad for a broke kid in high school .

I had 2 of these in my 1981 Honda Civic Sedan. I did a BP4 1st, but I tuned it too low (45hz) for the port volume. Then, I built a BR enclosure tuned to 35hz. The wife ended up blowing both of them, 1 at a time, in a single sealed enclosure in front of the passenger taillight of her 1995 Dodge Neon Sport Sedan with a 2.4L DOHC swap.

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