some expensive amps here

[chitowns finest 10+ year member]

I work at best buy and watch idiots spend 2,500 on two type e's a 800 watt kenwood amp and a cda9847 it kills me

 

[Loud3 10+ year member]

...and people call me crazy when I rattle off the price of a ARC 2500-XXK.

Haha.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

then why is everyone so wow'd over the price of these amps?

Even if the mark-up was 100% on those amps they would still have a dealer cost of over a grand.

 

[chitowns finest 10+ year member]

so!

 

[chitowns finest 10+ year member]

you pay 4 good stuff

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

you pay 4 good stuff

I never said it was "bad" or that they weren't good....just expensive, even at cost, when you asked why everyone was so amazed at their price.

You're beginning to talk to circles //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

It's true that to get to a certain point in quality, you need to pay more, but once you've exceeded a certain point, you're being fleeced //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I haven't seen this so much in car audio, but the WAVAC 833 mono amplifiers are certainly a good example of it. $350,000 does not make it the best amp out there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Well at least they gotta lifetime warranty....which no one mentioned on here...

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lifetime warranty whit them brax amps.....i guess u know what ur paying for now

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Your supposed to say theyre ugly, so the focker a few posts above cant say I have em due to cosmetics. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I will edit my post after we talk in private Mr. good prices man.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/greedy.gif.5a53e6246569d7ab79867170f3b06629.gif

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Well at least they gotta lifetime warranty....which no one mentioned on here...

Not through that site posted, that I'm aware of.

Last I knew, http://www.mobilesq.com was the only place to obtain a factory warranty via web sales.

 

[takeabao 10+ year member]

People buy Brax/Helix/Tru Copper/Sinfoni because despite what Richard Clark may say, it's an audible fact that these amps have a much lower noise floor. You can be ****ed sure that there's going to be absolutely NO turn-on clicks/pop and the build quality is TOP NOTCH, ELITE, etc.

Jim said it best. The majority of the members on this forum fit into a much younger demographic and:

a) don't have the money to spend on exotic equipment

or

b) don't care to have the ultimate in sound quality.

If I had a few grand to spend, there's no doubt I'd spend it on an SQ setup as opposed to the MT's, Solo-X's, IA20.1s, and other SPL-class-D-affordable-LOTS-o-BASS products.

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

If I had a few grand to spend, there's no doubt I'd spend it on an SQ setup as opposed to the MT's, Solo-X's, IA20.1s, and other SPL-class-D-affordable-LOTS-o-BASS products.

Woah there.... WOAH... you leave my precious 20.1 outta this... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

People buy Brax/Helix/Tru Copper/Sinfoni because despite what Richard Clark may say, it's an audible fact that these amps have a much lower noise floor.

It's not what RC has said....but what he has proven //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif RC doesn't have to say a whole lot (though he does, because he's big headed)....the results of his amp challenge pretty much speak for themselves. You're more than welcome to grab a Brax, put it against any other amp you wish and prove his hypthosis wrong......but the hundreds to thousands before you haven't done it, so I don't know why you would think that you can //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif I don't believe "noise floor" is one of the isolated variables in the comparison....so it should be an easy win for you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

i dont understand why people say these amps are so expensive (thousands of dollars they say)

http://www.mobilesq.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=26_39_42&products_id=41

^^right there is under a grand at mobilesq am i missing something here?

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

low noise floor with a high S/N can be obtained with a decent input voltage.

I'm using an AC MVC, keeps the signal hot.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif