signal to noise ratio?

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

i'm thinking about getting a budget amp (audiopipe) but it has a sn of 70db. does this mean the sound won't be clean or will this heat up the subs? cause i'm going for loud. if its not sending a clipped signal and heating up my subs i'll be fine. i'm not a sq guy

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[jusBloud 10+ year member]

anybody out there got a pipe?

 

[Upgrayedd 10+ year member]

anybody out there got a pipe?

I got 7" it can get loud. It heats up though.

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

I got 7" it can get loud. It heats up though.

the amp or the subs? i'm trying to figure out if a signal to noise ratio of 70dbs is really that bad. cause if it won't heat up the subs then i'm getting a pipe. you really can't beat the price

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

help!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dB-SPL 10+ year member]

If it's a class D amp, don't worry about it. Most sub amps have a terrible Signal-to-noise anyways. In any other case, the higher, the better. I still wouldn't worry about it much though.

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

If it's a class D amp, don't worry about it. Most sub amps have a terrible Signal-to-noise anyways. In any other case, the higher, the better. I still wouldn't worry about it much though.

thanks. my friend has one and i can't hear anything but BASS! i just wasn't exactly sure what s/n meant. for loud i guess it doesn't matter

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

do a search. Theres a dick load of threads on the audiopipe amps. And the reason all you hear is bass could be the fact your friend has an overload amount of bass power but not mid or highs. Did you think about that? Or if your hearing distortion then your friend needs to turn the gain down.

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

do a search. Theres a dick load of threads on the audiopipe amps. And the reason all you hear is bass could be the fact your friend has an overload amount of bass power but not mid or highs. Did you think about that? Or if your hearing distortion then your friend needs to turn the gain down.

could the reason i'm only hearing bass from the amp be that its a d class i would hope i wouldn't hear much else. but thanks for your help

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Audiotripe.

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

Audiotripe.

all helpful opinions appreciated.

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

SNR on a subwoofer amplifier is a fairly useless spec. There are very few subwoofers out there that will exhibit signs of audible hiss, but there are a few of them that will show it.

Then you have the other factor... How did Audiopipe rate their SNR? Did they rate it at one or two watts OR did they rate it at maximum output power? Many amplifier manufacturers rate their SNR at max power thereby inflating their true SNR and making them look better when compared to an amplifier that rates their SNR at 1 or 2 watts.

 

[jusBloud 10+ year member]

doesn't sound like the pipes are all that bad for sub amps. to ebay i go!!

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

It's a budget subwoofer amplifier and as long as you regard it as such, you'll probably be satisfied with the performance of one.

 

[dB-SPL 10+ year member]

could the reason i'm only hearing bass from the amp be that its a d class i would hope i wouldn't hear much else. but thanks for your help

No. Amplifier class does not dictate its sole use. If you were to wire that same class D amplifier to a set of components or other door speakers, you'll hear much more than bass. That's like claiming to hear nothing but treble from your sub if it were powered by a class A/B amp.