Old School

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

Using Coustic 510-DR at the moment. Have an Xtant X603 that I may swap in.

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

I used to, and then I woke up.
My current Clarions, sound the same if not better than my bonerific LP amps, and cost me a **** load less too.

I am starting to wake up too.

 

[RFCV 10+ year member]

The Clarion 9772RT was on the front of CA&E back in 1991 along with 3 other decks tested. The Clarion came out #1 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

* To the 2 Mike's who asked to see pics of my set up..I used to have some pics taken by my sound off promoter who had a digital camera & they were up on his Competition site. Since then, the site has been changed & some old pics (including mine) were erased. I will see if more can be taken again sometime soon. I do not have a digital cam.

 

[got-one-eight 10+ year member]

Besides Lunar are there any companies who still use an old school approach today?

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

Tru and a couple of overseas companies use the old school approach. I would have no problems running Audison, Genesis, Brax, or Helix. I left a few other names out of the equation, but IMHO, they are great high-end products with the old school approach to quality.

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

Those companies are expensive and prove the theory of high price US Made car amplifiers and validate why lots of companies have gove overseas now.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

Like Foxpro5 said in the other thread, if all that was available was US made, high quality products, all the kiddies on this site would be bіtching because they couldn't afford to put a system together!

 

[bass_lover1 10+ year member]

Just get the US designed and China/Korea/Japan made amps...cough Zeff cough

 

[funkmaster 10+ year member]

I still run old school to this day.

I have used HiFonics VIII, Soundstream Class A, and my current setup, Precision Power Art.

Here is my front and rear amps in my 85 CRX: A300 & A200

Also running a black ProArt 50 to a single MMats P3.0 10" DVC Sub.

Nakamichi CD500 HU, Focal KRC130 front, Infinity 6002i rear.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Nice

 

[funkmaster 10+ year member]

Thanks.

I just love the way these amps sound.

Im going to replace the infinity rears with something else, I just havent decided yet.

Depth is limited to 2-3/8" so my options are slim.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Define: "Old School Approach"

Meaning building best amp as possible with current technology/parts availible? Regardless of price? Just making sure I understand what you guys are talking about.

 

[Keyboard_Rambo 10+ year member]

Define: "Old School Approach"
Meaning building best amp as possible with current technology/parts availible? Regardless of price? Just making sure I understand what you guys are talking about.

If I had to guess based on the OP's other threads, I am thinking that he is inferring something along the lines of 15 year old amplifiers being better than what is currently available today. Personally, I don't see how that can be because there have been significant technological improvements since those relics were first manufactured. Sure, the basic overall class ab design hasn't really changed much since its first introduction, but I would be willing to bet that the actual components on the circuit board are exponentially better than what was available 15 years ago! Also, amperage draw per amperage draw, class D appears to be where it is at for efficient use of power.

People like gunz4me, my cousin, who pull that: "Let's see a Korean made amplifier last this long!" really crack me up.

I always find myself correcting him by asking: "Just how long have these relics of yours been installed?" and that usually shuts him up.

The reason some of his amplifiers have lasted so long is because they spent most of their lives in a closet, just sitting there. I don't know about any of you, but I think it is a waste to have gear laying around doing nothing.

 

[Goindef154 5,000+ posts]

I've used some old school orion XTR's and still am using them right now and you really can't match their quality/clarity.

 

[cleansoundzz 10+ year member]

Bump