opinions- old MTX 225HO

[badvlvo 10+ year member]

I just purchased an MTX 225HO for cheap. If I recall these were seriously underrated amps and could put out something like 700w rms @ 1 ohm.

I will be using it to power (2) RE SR 10" running at 1 ohm in a small sealed box.

Opinions of the amp? Anyone own one?

It's old but it hasn't seen much use, it belonged to a friend who bought it new and it has been on a shelf for at least 7 years.

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[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Thats a good old school rare amp. Post up some pics if you can.

 

[badvlvo 10+ year member]

Thats a good old school rare amp. Post up some pics if you can.

I'll post up some pics when we are doing the install. It's a little scratched, he didn't have it protected in the trunk. I might have to refinish the amp to make it look good again.

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

back in the day this was mtx's answer to the orion hcca 225

a very good cheater amp...you could be in a 100 watt class , but you would be putting out 700 ....lol

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

I would love to have one of these in white.

Anyone have a gut shot?

 

[king nothing 10+ year member]

that series of MTX was awesome. I had a 1500dx (MTXs 1st ever class D sub amp), 2x 2150x and 2x 275x. Im still kicking myself for trading them off

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

i had a gut pic of it but it somehow got deleted....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

RMS Power measured at 12.5 Volts DC:

25 Watts x 2 into a 4 Ohm load with less than 0.05% Thd+N

50 Watts x 2 into a 2 Ohm load with less than 0.1% Thd+N

100 Watts x 2 into a 1 Ohm load with less than 0.3% Thd+N

200 Watts x 2 into a 1/2 Ohm load with less than 0.5% Thd+N

400 Watts bridged into a 1 Ohm load with less than 0.5% Thd+N

Dynamic Power (IHF-202 Std) measured at 14.4 Volts DC

65 Watts x 2 into a 4 Ohm load

120 Watts x 2 into a 2 Ohm load

200 Watts x 2 into a 1 Ohm load

370 Watts x 2 into a 1/2 Ohm load

700 Watts bridged into a 1 Ohm load

 

[badvlvo 10+ year member]

Good to hear that people are with me in their opinion of this unit.

I think I am going to paint it to match the car.