US AMPS : New or Old?

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

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fine fine fine, i keep posting and posting about this subject. i guess people dont read hehe.

okay to start out, Usamps was bought out by Mr. Kim because the USamps in FL was near bankrupt due to many reasons, one being that Jack (started usamps along with dirk) was more of an engineer than a business man. .

The new usamps is individually owned (NOT bought out by directed or maxxonics or some umbrella corporation, nor subject to a cookie cutter buildhouse). Dirk ecker is still designing the amps so there is no worry about the design quality, after talking to Dirk a little bit, he will NEVER let USamps go down in quality, he doesnt really care much about the money, but new innovations and ways he can make his amplifiers even better. The man is a true genious, and money is the last thing on his mind. as stated Dirk now has more up to date technology and funding (thanks to Kim) to work with so the designs are even MORE mature and efficient.

On to where/how they are made. The Xterminator line and the Merlin line are made and assembled (NOT DESIGNED) in Korea, which is in a way a good thing. Them koreans have better technology than we do at makin amps. Think a bout it, the powerhouses of amplifiers, IA, MMATS, DD, JL, watever, are Korean.

the AX line however, has the boards stuffed in Korea with the Little circuitry. the boards are then shipped back to the US where the big stuff, hand wound TOroids, transistors, etc. are hand soldered (as seen in the pix i posted) and assembled here.

The toroids used in ALL of the Xterminator, Merlin, AX lines are AMERICAN toroids. USamps has to Ship some circuitry used on the board to Korea because korea doesnt have certain aspects of the amp to make it run to its full capacity, so the US excells on some and Korea excells on some. Also moving some of the business to Korea helps shift funding to R&D, where IMO is the most important.

As for the amps being built here/not built here, remember the pictures i posted with the mexicans building the amps? you would have never known unless i posted those pictures. Would it have made a difference if koreans, chinese, black, even white people were working on them? If the people know what they are doing, and has the right guidance (Dirk spent 3-4 months in Korea to tell the koreans how to build the amps) it DOESNT MATTER who builds it.

that was a lot of typing hehe.

You just blew my mind flakko. Good info

 

[guy022077 10+ year member]

I think those Usamps were awesome i had a 100,150,425 and those were the cleanest amps ive ever owned. i wish i could afford them now

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

okay to start out, Usamps was bought out by Mr. Kim because the USamps in FL was near bankrupt due to many reasons, one being that Jack (started usamps along with dirk) was more of an engineer than a business man. .
The new usamps is individually owned (NOT bought out by directed or maxxonics or some umbrella corporation, nor subject to a cookie cutter buildhouse). Dirk ecker is still designing the amps so there is no worry about the design quality, after talking to Dirk a little bit, he will NEVER let USamps go down in quality, he doesnt really care much about the money, but new innovations and ways he can make his amplifiers even better. The man is a true genious, and money is the last thing on his mind. as stated Dirk now has more up to date technology and funding (thanks to Kim) to work with so the designs are even MORE mature and efficient.

Then tell Mr. Ecker that he is more than welcome to sell me one or four amps at exactly $1 above his cost to produce it. He'll still technically make a profit, but not much //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

On to where/how they are made. The Xterminator line and the Merlin line are made and assembled (NOT DESIGNED) in Korea, which is in a way a good thing. Them koreans have better technology than we do at makin amps. Think a bout it, the powerhouses of amplifiers, IA, MMATS, DD, JL, watever, are Korean.
the AX line however, has the boards stuffed in Korea with the Little circuitry. the boards are then shipped back to the US where the big stuff, hand wound TOroids, transistors, etc. are hand soldered (as seen in the pix i posted) and assembled here.

The toroids used in ALL of the Xterminator, Merlin, AX lines are AMERICAN toroids. USamps has to Ship some circuitry used on the board to Korea because korea doesnt have certain aspects of the amp to make it run to its full capacity, so the US excells on some and Korea excells on some. Also moving some of the business to Korea helps shift funding to R&D, where IMO is the most important.

As for the amps being built here/not built here, remember the pictures i posted with the mexicans building the amps? you would have never known unless i posted those pictures. Would it have made a difference if koreans, chinese, black, even white people were working on them? If the people know what they are doing, and has the right guidance (Dirk spent 3-4 months in Korea to tell the koreans how to build the amps) it DOESNT MATTER who builds it.

that was a lot of typing hehe.

I don't care if it was a green with purple polka-dotted Martian that made my amplifier so long it gives me a reasonable performance vs. cost of acquisition ratio //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

Then tell Mr. Ecker that he is more than welcome to sell me one or four amps at exactly $1 above his cost to produce it. He'll still technically make a profit, but not much //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

i dont think MR KIM would like that very much hehe. It is he who makes all the financial decisions

I don't care if it was a green with purple polka-dotted Martian that made my amplifier so long it gives me a reasonable performance vs. cost of acquisition ratio //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

yea thats wat im trying to get across to these people who are saying US made stuff is the BEST in hte whole wide world. im glad SOME people agree //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

w00t.

NG

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

i love USamps...expessially the vlx-400 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

i would love to have a good 2 channel and class d us amps. but im way too poor.

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

i just bought an oldskool USamps....i mean so old it doesnt have a gain switch or nothing for 40 bucks

 

[DJGTSR 10+ year member]

Is there any of the old stock left? IE some of the OLD usamps? I want to get my hands on one of those 40 some odd inch amps.

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[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

haha u see vlx-400's (surfboard amp) and vlx-200s go on ebay from time to time....but the price tag is usually from 800-2800

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

Is there any of the old stock left? IE some of the OLD usamps? I want to get my hands on one of those 40 some odd inch amps.
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i like lilmaniac's idea for those. coffee table //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

You just blew my mind flakko. Good info

x2

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

yea i was gonna build one a coffee table, but YOU dont have any more cases //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[pjm2211 10+ year member]

I love my old school us amps......however the big ones require a bigger alternator in your ride.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

I dunno which one is better but we'll see. look at what i got yesterday!