Why pay more for a JL audio amp?

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

Power isn't Power, all amps certainly don't sound the same (different manufacturer's use different designs and topologies) if you think they do you are tone deaf or just plain can't tell the difference.
If you can't tell a Class D amplifier from a Class A/B amplifier then it probably does not matter what you use. Buy the cheapest made crap you can find with 10% THD and 50db S/N Ratio and Channel Separation because power is power right.

Dampening factor determines how well an amplifier controls the drivers connected to it, how quickly it starts and stops. It also makes a difference at what specific frequency that specification was measured at. The Orion XTR-100/NT 100 has a dampening factor of 1000 so even if loaded down to 1 ohm it still has incredible control. If you are listening to a double kick drum being pounded repeatedly your amp should be able to keep the woofers moving accurately to reproduce the notes as they were recorded not as a jumbled horrid one note mess.

If you can't hear the difference between an amp like an Orion NT 100 and a Jensen maybe you should stick with an iPod and a pair of earbuds.

Flame away little biatches.

maybe you will learn something from this thread..

now i dont know about you but i cannot hear the difference of 1/1000th of a second. you are misinformed. any damping factor of 50 and above is perfectly comparable of any other above 50. the differences are statistically and realistically negligible.

anyone who says otherwise, like you, is simply misinformed by the marketing of competing companies.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

zedaudiocorp.com has some very informative tech sheets. im going to email them to ask if they can fix the links for the rest of them

 

[sdmtnbiker420 10+ year member]

cool, ill check out my options cuase i need some power

thanks dragnix

 

[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

Iirc up to 10% thd is inaudible to the human ear. How's it sound now?

it's 3% THD.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

it's 3% THD.

Really .5% THD in the midrange frequencies would likely be audible with test tones if someone had decent hearing (specifically the reason why test tones are not allowed in RC's amp challenge). So it's not really "inaudible".

Distortion is simply much harder to identify with music due to a wide multitude of factors.

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

yeah Kicker's amp is 1000 watts at 15 volts AKA when you're on the highway doing 85mph.

I'm pretty sure it's 14.4v

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

^^^ x2

and im pretty sure on a good charging system, 14.4v is attainable after 2k rpm

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

JL audio is for ballers and ballers use JL audio.

 

[grampi 10+ year member]

I guess my hearing a distinct difference between the two amps (one with a lower, and one with a higher DF) was a fig newton of my imagination. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

more than likely

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I think what you heard was an amp with more power than the other.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

I think what you heard was an amp with more power than the other.

DING DING DING, we have a winnah!

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

I dont know much about dampening factor and all that. however I just wanted to say I heard a big difference SQ wise when switching from eD to a Zapco amp IMO. I dont know if it was the balanced signals or not...

 

[grampi 10+ year member]

I think what you heard was an amp with more power than the other.

Nope, both amps produced the same amount of power (within a few watts).

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

same crossover? same eq? same gain setting making the amps equal?