Who Makes The Best Amps?

[cam5860 10+ year member]

Who makes the best amps for the money? Far as sound quality, clean power, and features. Out of these four brands put them in order. Alpine, JL Audio, Kicker, Rockford Fosgate.

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[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

Sundown

 

[Simek4life 10+ year member]

JL duh.

 

[Side Show 10+ year member]

zed

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

who makes the most useless thread?

 

[Doola36 10+ year member]

JL Audio, Alpine, Rockford Fosgate, Kicker

 

[Pgvietsider 10+ year member]

Zapco, Arc Audio, Sinfoni, Brax, Helix, TRU, I can name a alot more

 

[06salterego 10+ year member]

us amps. merlin line.... zapco.....DD

 

[slam 5,000+ posts]

usa and japan

 

[Canaan 10+ year member]

South Korea:thumbsup:

Zenon

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

JL, dawg. They'z mad tite and hit so hard.

lmao.

I can't honestly say. I've owned my Alpine MRV-1507 amp for like 3 years now with no problems on my sub setups.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

For the money Sundown is definitely up there. TRU, Arc, Helix and others may offer better SQ, arguably, but the price on some of those is pretty exorbitant.

 

[06salterego 10+ year member]

europe makes the "best sounding amps" ....rainbow. zapco.....

 

[Ferendon 10+ year member]

This is an unanswerable question. They all have such a wide variety of products ranging from shit, on up to very nice, it's hard to say. Rockford's new shit is very nice, but doesn't have any recent entries in the 1000w monoblock area, but the Punch EQ is really nice. Alpines new PDX amps are bad ***, but lack a lot of mid-range. Drum sweeps, and the like, sound very flat on PDX amps, when you can hear them. JL Audio's G-series is 'eh' at best, the HD-series is nice, but nowhere near worth the money, and the Slash series is bland, but solid. Don't know shit about Kicker, don't want to, don't care or give a shit. I ****ing hate Kicker, and everything they do.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

Who makes the best amps for the money? Far as sound quality, clean power, and features. Out of these four brands put them in order. Alpine, JL Audio, Kicker, Rockford Fosgate.

I would have to say, if I have to stay within those four Best Buy/Circuit City/Discount Store brands, they would go in this order:

1. JL Audio - best overall, but I hate working on them.... too many tiny parts...

2. Rockford Fosgate - The new stuff is good, I would even go as far as to say close tie with JL in most respects, the older stuff, is well, old, but okay....

3. Kicker - Probably the best bang for the buck in this group, but not the best quality IMO

4. Alpine - Do they make anything but PDX amps these days? I do not like the PDX amps, but I am biased, because I am a tech and I have to work on them and the little tiny PDX amps are a total bish to work on, and I don't think they sound good AT ALL. Full range Class D sucks IMO, give me Class A, or AB anyday over full range class D for SQ. Just IMO. I don't know everything, and don't claim to, just giving my opinion.