Power Acoustik Gothic, worth a try?

[seth350 10+ year member]

Ive got a friend who has a Power Acoustik Gothic series OV2-1200 amp

http://www.poweracoustik.com/pa2006/product_AUDIO_amp_gothic.htm

It says 600W mono RMS, 1200W peak

Now I know it will only do that 600W but I have a Kenwood amp thats 1000W peak but it only does ~500W rms

But anyways, I was wanting to hear how my SX18 is supposed to sound with the right amount of power and was wondering if it would be worth trying this?

I know you cant make a sub louder without doubling the amount of power going to it, so going from 500W to 600W wont make a hill of beans but I just thought for some odd reason it may give the SX that 1200W long enough for me to hear it so I can get rid of it here in 2 weeks.

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[tristan20 10+ year member]

The gothics are pretty good

 

[samson 10+ year member]

Hook it up and give us a review, only a handful of wires.

 

[zachzchw 5,000+ posts]

Ive got a friend who has a Power Acoustik Gothic series OV2-1200 amphttp://www.poweracoustik.com/pa2006/product_AUDIO_amp_gothic.htm

It says 600W mono RMS, 1200W peak

Now I know it will only do that 600W but I have a Kenwood amp thats 1000W peak but it only does ~500W rms

But anyways, I was wanting to hear how my SX18 is supposed to sound with the right amount of power and was wondering if it would be worth trying this?

I know you cant make a sub louder without doubling the amount of power going to it, so going from 500W to 600W wont make a hill of beans but I just thought for some odd reason it may give the SX that 1200W long enough for me to hear it so I can get rid of it here in 2 weeks.

It wont do 1200.........What do you mean it might give it 1200 long enough for you to hear it?

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

I've had a Power Acoutik amp in the past... it does around 75% or so of rated power, IIRC. Thordaudio did a review on Carstereos.org with measurements to that effect. So, with that in mind it probably isn't any more powerful than your Kenwood.

 

[jrr323 10+ year member]

ive heard the lt are the best ones

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

i had an ov4-800 for a while. not bad for the money. nothing special. 75% sounds believable.

 

[seth350 10+ year member]

F.uckin amps are scandulous.

Oh well.....I put my SX in a buddys S10 lastnight. He is thinkin about buying it and i let him have it for now to see if he will like it.

We had to take his passenger seat out for it to fit and its facing the drivers seat. But he went and bought his friends Rockford P6002 amp it says 1600 peak and 600W @ 2ohms but nothing about what it does at 1 ohm. But the dude bought it brand new and never used it and sold it to him for $150 and he is going to turn around and sell it to me for $150 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Anyways thanks for the help

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

at 1 ohm the 6002 will go poof