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What is it with Old School Amplifiers?
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<blockquote data-quote="dB-r" data-source="post: 6220903" data-attributes="member: 574699"><p>Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong.</p><p></p><p>Your D300HC is NOT old school. The older amps put out LESS power in a BIGGER package more often than not. The old amps that people CLAIM would handle lower impedances were never designed, intended, nor did they handle well lower impedance loads than todays amps. For example, the old famed HCCA 250, or 2100 HCCA Orions for example. People called them "cheater amps" back in the day because they would make a lot more power at say, .5 ohm or 1 ohm bridged than their rated 2 x 4 ohms power. TRUE. However they would get SO HOT you could literally cook an egg on them. That is not something special and most modern amps would handle 1 ohm bridged or .5 ohm and double, even triple their power just as good as an old Orion HCCA. I have proven this here at my shop doing testing. I can squeeze triple the output out of most amps here bridged at 1 ohm, just like the did back in the day. The difference is that MOST of the newer amps will handle it, whereas MOST of the older amps WOULD NOT handle it and would blow up.... They all however get extremely hot and head toward going into thermal protect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dB-r, post: 6220903, member: 574699"] Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong. Your D300HC is NOT old school. The older amps put out LESS power in a BIGGER package more often than not. The old amps that people CLAIM would handle lower impedances were never designed, intended, nor did they handle well lower impedance loads than todays amps. For example, the old famed HCCA 250, or 2100 HCCA Orions for example. People called them "cheater amps" back in the day because they would make a lot more power at say, .5 ohm or 1 ohm bridged than their rated 2 x 4 ohms power. TRUE. However they would get SO HOT you could literally cook an egg on them. That is not something special and most modern amps would handle 1 ohm bridged or .5 ohm and double, even triple their power just as good as an old Orion HCCA. I have proven this here at my shop doing testing. I can squeeze triple the output out of most amps here bridged at 1 ohm, just like the did back in the day. The difference is that MOST of the newer amps will handle it, whereas MOST of the older amps WOULD NOT handle it and would blow up.... They all however get extremely hot and head toward going into thermal protect. [/QUOTE]
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