Old Skool - name that amp contest

[Boulderguy 10+ year member]

Hi all - first post here. Stuck this on another forum, thought it'd be fun to spread it around. Hope it's OK here...?

Each image is of a pretty distinctive amp, most are O/S. Some have hints. Some have subtle hints in the photo if you look closely. A couple are fairly new. None would be considered "cheap" by most standards.

Rules:

One point for guessing the manufacturer, bonus points if you get the model. I'll post answers eventually if needed.

All images are from ampguts dot something. DO NOT go looking there - that's cheating. So is Googling or using anything other than your memory. If you've been around a while you should get most of these by sight.

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[Boulderguy 10+ year member]

[hint - made around 1986, class A, distinctive heat sinks, currently making chromed stuff]

[hint - from 1988, RMS 120w x 4, very atypical design, sort of a "class C" - get it?]

[Ancient. Look at the heatsink pattern]

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

1 is a 4ch Nakamichi amp.

2 is a Fosgate design?

6 is a Phoenix Gold M44?

9 is a PPI PowerClass of some sort.

12 is a SoundStream Human Reign.

14 looks like an ADS.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

#1 Coustic Design Reference

#2 Rockford Fosgate

#3 Beats the heck out of me!

#4 Dont know.

#5 US Amps

#6 Pheonix Gold

#7 Dont know.

#8 Zed Audio

#9 Precision Power (PPI)

#10 Orion

#11 Fultron?

#12 Sounstream Human Reign

#13 Hafler

#14 A/D/S

#15 Dont know.

#16 Thats BEAUTIFUL! But I dont know.

#17 Beats me.

#18 Linear Power

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[wesl56 10+ year member]

10 is orion?

 

[chuksw9ve 10+ year member]

# 12 looks cool.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

#7 soundstream

 

[Boulderguy 10+ year member]

#7 soundstream

Nope - look for the logo in that picture...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

#6 m100 p/g i still have one# 18 linear power

 

[OoMesKoO 10+ year member]

#2 Fosgate

#4 Macintosh

6 Phoenix Gold

7 Soundstream?

9 Power Acoustik?

10 Orion

11 Soundstream

12 Also Soundstream

 

[matrxx dude 5,000+ posts]

iseen a rockford,soundstream,orion,us amps,tru

 

[Boulderguy 10+ year member]

#1 Coustic Design Reference#2 Rockford Fosgate

#3 Beats the heck out of me!

#4 Dont know.

#5 US Amps

#6 Pheonix Gold

#7 Dont know.

#8 Zed Audio

#9 Precision Power (PPI)

#10 Orion

#11 Fultron?

#12 Sounstream Human Reign

#13 Hafler

#14 A/D/S

#15 Dont know.

#16 Thats BEAUTIFUL! But I dont know.

#17 Beats me.

#18 Linear Power

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Prettty good - you got ten!

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

you can see teh nak logo on #7

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

2. RF Power 1000

4. Going to guess it's a McIntosh

5. US Amps

6. PG

7. Nakamichi given the light symbol on the heatsink.

8. Zed Audio

9. PPI

10. Orion given is says HCCA on it.

12. Soundstream

16. Audison Thesis

Those are the only ones I know. The rest would be guesses. Well, I suppose some of the answers I listed were guesses aswell.

 

[Boulderguy 10+ year member]

16. Audison Thesis

Sooo close on that one. Think Starbucks.