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<blockquote data-quote="Upgrayedd" data-source="post: 6514090" data-attributes="member: 616248"><p>I agree on the heat thing. I had a soundstream 10.0 @1ohm mono. That thing would get painfully hot. Never went into protect but wow did it get hot. As far as the older RF stuff goes (dsm,i,ix,x2) I can't count how many of those things we saw come in for repairs and friends of mine had blown. However I guess this could have been to them being one of the best amps the average consumer could(would) afford. I'm guessing the production numbers on those were pretty high.</p><p></p><p>Not sure how oldschool it is but orion had a run of crap in the 99-2000 era when the went from finned to flat heatsinks(possibly overseas production?) the last run of finned and first of smooth were so bad we outright stopped selling them due the large warranty rate. Orion started telling their dealers it was their issue because they weren't doing what is known as "big 3" now. Understandable on large amps but this was even on the 2-300 watters. Eventually truth came to light that the boards had insufficient traces. I'm guessing this was resolved somewhat after that because another shop I worked at 2 years later sold orion. We had no issues with them.</p><p></p><p>Sorry if this is irrelevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Upgrayedd, post: 6514090, member: 616248"] I agree on the heat thing. I had a soundstream 10.0 @1ohm mono. That thing would get painfully hot. Never went into protect but wow did it get hot. As far as the older RF stuff goes (dsm,i,ix,x2) I can't count how many of those things we saw come in for repairs and friends of mine had blown. However I guess this could have been to them being one of the best amps the average consumer could(would) afford. I'm guessing the production numbers on those were pretty high. Not sure how oldschool it is but orion had a run of crap in the 99-2000 era when the went from finned to flat heatsinks(possibly overseas production?) the last run of finned and first of smooth were so bad we outright stopped selling them due the large warranty rate. Orion started telling their dealers it was their issue because they weren't doing what is known as "big 3" now. Understandable on large amps but this was even on the 2-300 watters. Eventually truth came to light that the boards had insufficient traces. I'm guessing this was resolved somewhat after that because another shop I worked at 2 years later sold orion. We had no issues with them. Sorry if this is irrelevant. [/QUOTE]
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