What are your thoughts on stetsom amps?

[DS Autosports 10+ year member]

Might want to visit their website and look at some of their products. Or ask to hear from members that run Stetsom.

I have and I'm impressed with their line up, but there's nothing like real experience. Also are they so good that no one gets rid of them? I've seen hundreds of amps for sale on this forum, but haven't seen a stetsom. That may say a lot about the brand...

 

[DBBOOM 10+ year member]

I have and I'm impressed with their line up, but there's nothing like real experience. Also are they so good that no one gets rid of them? I've seen hundreds of amps for sale on this forum, but haven't seen a stetsom. That may say a lot about the brand...

Do a search, they sell on here often. http://www.caraudio.com/forum/search.php?searchid=6092762

 

[DS Autosports 10+ year member]

I will thanks. Are they easily blown? has any one had to call in on their 1yr warranty? if so how was your experience?

 

[Marlo Stanfield 10+ year member]

I have and I'm impressed with their line up, but there's nothing like real experience. Also are they so good that no one gets rid of them? I've seen hundreds of amps for sale on this forum, but haven't seen a stetsom. That may say a lot about the brand...

They're for sale here a couple each week actually... Also for the most part they are pretty new company and are quite expensive watts per $$.

You see a ton of Sundown amps and FI subs here for sale, does that make them a poor company because alot are for sale. IMO that just means that they've been quite successful, to the fact that so many of them are out there.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

I hear they don't like daily applications, but everything you hear isn't always right.

 

[etznova 10+ year member]

I run a 4k2d daily

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

I hear they don't like daily applications, but everything you hear isn't always right.

Depends on the model and how hard you push it. Try running the 14k hard with the mysterious single 1/0 power input for an extended period of time and see what happens.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, that's why I said I hear that, but don't really know the circumstances they were used, or if it's all hear say.

 

[etznova 10+ year member]

do you honestly think that the 14k was built and designed with daily driving use in mind

 

[etznova 10+ year member]

I mean come on they where built for the lanes and most people that buy them use them for that. And if your going to run a 14k daily you have better have the right mind set to supply the power it needs and set the gain properly and it shouldn't have a problem, and that goes for any amp on the market today, it takes power to make power its as simple as that.

 

[Marlo Stanfield 10+ year member]

Depends on the model and how hard you push it. Try running the 14k hard with the mysterious single 1/0 power input for an extended period of time and see what happens.

Isn't Thor planning on doing the same thing?? I agree with your first sentence 100% though.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

I never said they were designed for that, but the company needs to understand people will abuse the shit out of their amps regardless.

Do a search for daily, and stetsom see what comes up. All I'm saying is they are starting to get a rep for not being daily amps, true, or not.

 

[etznova 10+ year member]

I have and i have only seen a handfull of post regarding any issues about stetsom amps so if that all it take to get a bad rep then we better start throwing alot of other companys the cutting room floor.

And just cause they are starting to be more common in the classifieds means bad things come on, people around here change there stereo more than there underwear

 

[Dak446 10+ year member]

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[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Isn't Thor planning on doing the same thing?? I agree with your first sentence 100% though.

With the 14kw amp having a single 1/0 input, I see three possible situations.

a) The amp doesn't make near rated power, so the single 1/0 input is fine.

b) The amp internally is capable of making rated power, but the single 1/0 input restricts current flow and you'll have a hard time keeping voltage up and not burning up the wire.

c) Stetsom really is made by Jesus himself and he made it to where the amps can defy the laws of current consumption in relation to power output.