What is the best amp I can get for the Sundown SA 12 for around 200?

[zako 10+ year member]

Thank you all for all the suggestions! I am considering each and every one of them very carefully lol.
I've ran into a problem though. As I read more and more reviews, it seems that the SA 12's are a majorly SPL sub, and my primary need is sound quality. I've been going back and forth between this sub and the Skar 12 inch sub, does anybody have experience with both? If so, which has more musical quality? Also should these subs be ported or sealed?

It seems like SA subs are geared more towards ported box use, although sealed should sound ok with the right tuning. On the bench the perform no worse than the Image Dynamics IDQ subs, which are great SQ subs. Between these two, I'd say for ported box.. I'd get SA. for sealed application, probably IDQ. The Dayton HF sub mentioned here is pretty good for SQ, good sensitivity, but low power handling and xmax. They're so cheap however, that I wouldn't mind using two of them (the 10 inch version, the 12 inch seems to require to big of a box for my liking, around 2cu ft)

 

[globalminds_ent 10+ year member]

lanzar vibe

 

[Jakerrr 10+ year member]

You are going to want to over power it hardcore. After box rise your amp will see around 1.5 ohms. My sa-15 d4 is powered by a zx1000.1 and it wants much more. The sa series is really underrated and powerful amps are usually cleaner at the same wattage as a less powerful one. Headroom is a good thing and imo you would be happy with something that does 1500 wrms at 1 ohm. Maybe even more. Remember amps are usually rated at 14.4v which just isn't practical. If you get a really powerful amp you don't have to have it at full tilt.