TMA Amps (True Mobile Audio)

[Kato4276 10+ year member]

Does anyone know anything about these amps? I see that are made by or at least owned by JL. Anyone have any experiance with them ...

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[2lo2flo 10+ year member]

Its Total Mobile Audio,They are nice amps for the price,

Very similar to Jl audio's lowest line of amplifiers, known as the E or A series

 

[GetLikeMe 10+ year member]

Very nice budget amps and there component sets are nice as well. And yes theey are like JL's entry line.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

If they are in fact similar to the JL E series, I have worked on a few. The E series is not built anything like the /. But none the less the E series are nice amps, especially if you can get one for less money and don't expect a tremendous amount of power. The E series I worked on were a little weeny on the output power but did sound really good when ran within their limits.

 

[Miles0803]

i would hope there similar considering there made by...JL

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

LOL... Then they "might" be similar.... Why did JL branch off into another line? Or are they doing OEM for TMA?

 

[Miles0803]

from what i heard it was a guy that worked at RF and went to JL and they gave him TMA line or company......thats what i heard...go to TMA.com and rest your mouse on an amp it straight up says JL Amp doesn't say TMA

 

[Vermithrax 10+ year member]

I don't think JL branched off, but rather aquired TMA as a subsidiary. It gave JL dealers a relatively inexpensive alternative to offer customers who would have normally bought a competing brand. Meanwhile JL still pulls in the profits that would have normally went to some other company at that price point. IOW, it's JL's way to attract customers who wouldn't be buying JL Audio's namesake products.

As far as experience, I've used their 6.5 components, 6.5 and 5x7 coaxials and some of the first gen. amps. The amps aren't bad, they were solid IME and just what you'd expect from a budget line. The speakers were what really surprised me. The components I actually preferred over the lower end JL's. They were much smoother and more defined. The coaxials were also solid performers and better than many more expensive offerings I'd auditioned.