Soundqubed vs Hifonics ?

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

Well hopefully someone around here does a DIRECT swap so everyone can satisfy the great c1500martin!

 

[sprinklerman 10+ year member]

Just so I have it straight in my mind.....this is an argument about who's is the LEAST lower end amp?

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

I actually did between my brx and aq, all test were within 1 db. Majority of my test were done on music since I don't drive around listening to tones or burping. Even on tones it was still within one db. I still love SQ and my whole setup is SQ but I'm not going to be in denial and keep say there this huge difference between the two when I know there isn't. And my voltage didn't drop with either amp.

Thank you if you have pics or something that would be awesome.

So all in all if your competing FINE spend the extra $200 for 1Decibel but for a daily system like MOST of us have the return for the money isnt worth it and idc what you say ITS NOT. But if it make your johnson feel bigger saying you have "SOUNDQUBED" hey to each their own.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

Just so I have it straight in my mind.....this is an argument about who's is the LEAST lower end amp?

Its a conversation on the fact that there is not much difference in between them but people HATE on hifonics and glorify soundqubed.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Hhifonics has one good amp and its still freaking overrated.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

Hhifonics has one good amp and its still freaking overrated.

Hey 2000watts for $250 New? Over rated or not thats a heck of a deal if you ask me.

 

[G-LOW 10+ year member]

Go for the new Soundstream TA. I love mine and best bang for the buck. Although it doesn't have that CEA compliant i'm sure it's close enough so either Hifonics or Soundstream. You'll be happy!!! Save your money!

 

[KilluminatiDre 10+ year member]

Thank you if you have pics or something that would be awesome.
So all in all if your competing FINE spend the extra $200 for 1Decibel but for a daily system like MOST of us have the return for the money isnt worth it and idc what you say ITS NOT. But if it make your johnson feel bigger saying you have "SOUNDQUBED" hey to each their own.

I wish that I would have took pics, if I would have known an argument like this was going happen I definitely would have. I did this comparison before this thread started for my own curiosity. I got the AQ on Cyber Monday. When I didnt notice much increase in SPL I decided to compare the two on the meter to see I my ears were playing tricks on me, which the meter confirmed they weren't. I'm not too mad about it, I paid $343 for the AQ BNIB and sold the BRX to a friend for $100. Other than saying my subs and amp "are the same brand" and the AQ "looks better" than the BRX theres really isn't much advantage IMO.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

Go for the new Soundstream TA. I love mine and best bang for the buck. Although it doesn't have that CEA compliant i'm sure it's close enough so either Hifonics or Soundstream. You'll be happy!!! Save your money!

Cea doesnt really mean anything its just a stamp companies pay for to make their amps look better.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Hey 2000watts for $250 New? Over rated or not thats a heck of a deal if you ask me.

That's what the BC2000s use to go for when they first came out.

 

[Neto562]

Is this seriously still going on !!!!!

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Hhifonics has one good amp and its still freaking overrated.

One simply does not expect rated out of a hifonics. Just decent budget power. Everyone and their grandmas know if you buy a 2600 watt hifonics, it'll barely etch out 2k a true 1 ohm impedance on average electrical, after rise an everything it'll just barely have enough to properly push a pair of SA 12s hard. Still, If you can get soundqubed for around 300 used, you can get hifonics used for dirt cheap and prices are competitive and lowball-able since there are so many on craigslist. You deal with lies all the time in car audio, but when you know what you are doing and getting yourself into and you also DGAF about principles of "oh they are lying to you off the bat" and rather just focus soley on cost to performance ratio, its not so bad of an option to go.

 

[jeepguylv]

one simply does not expect rated out of a hifonics. Just decent budget power. Everyone and their grandmas know if you buy a 2600 watt hifonics, it'll barely etch out 2k a true 1 ohm impedance, after rise an everything it'll just barely have enough to properly push a pair of SA 12s hard. Still, If you can get soundqubed for around 300 used, you can get hifonics used for dirt cheap and prices are competitive and lowball-able since there are so many on craigslist. You deal with lies all the time in car audio, but when you know what you are doing and getting yourself into and you also DGAF about principles of "oh they are lying to you off the bat" and rather just focus soley on cost to performance ratio, its not so bad of an option to go.

yea, I got my AQ's cheap enough to be proud of them......... if I ever get around to installing them lol.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

DB-R once told me my old BC2000 was a bxi2608. I didn't care since it was louder than a ZX2500

 

[negolien]

Yeah the Hifonics have their place I have defended them as decent budget amps for a while but that's exactly what they are budget amps. I have seen a lot of posts about my Hifonics blew up or my Hifonics set up sounds like **** not seen to many SQ posts similar just saying.