eismanx 10+ year member
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I havent been keeping up with too much car audio for a good while, but i have something i want to share with you guys.
So i bought a MTX TE601D from a local dealer thru craigslist. He sold me this amp along with a MTX7510 subwoofer for only $250 new. The amp alone still retails around $479 and the sub around $200 ish. I was like D@MN this is a helluva deal ! I quickly found out why, and should have taken the hint when the dealer himself told me that he would no longer be selling MTX products and these items were his last on clearance.
I made the spec box for the sub and installed the amp. I was sending 600 watts to a 400 watt subwoofer and that lasted for about 2 weeks. After that the amp started to cut out when my volume was up fairly high. Sometimes the sub and amp would cut out for about 2 or 3 seconds and cut back on. Then i get in the truck one night and the amp is on and completely lit and no sound at all. I checked everything over 2 times. Go in the store, come back out and all of a sudden it works. WTHell? After it did that for the second time it was back to the drawing board, Craigslist,lol.
This is the twist, i sell it to a friend of mine( what a good friend i am right?) ,for the same price i got it for, bought a Sundown sae 1000d with that cash, no probs, awesome amp. The MTX amp works fine for him for a week or 2 and starts doin the same thing all over again. This is the best part. He calls MTX and they try to diagnose the problem for him like he doesnt have a clue in the world. They cant tell him whats wrong with the amp, but they do tell him that if he ships it in to them, get this, they would only charge him $85 to completely change out the whole circuit board AND ship it back to him.
WTF? They are selling a nice glossy over featured amp with all kinds of cooling features for $500 w/ shipping included, and the whole d@mn board only costs about $60, what a joke. No wonder it was a piece of junk.
Thank you MTX for the older 1501D and all other great products you used to make. It has treated me like a KING and is still running strong to this day, minus the re-soldered RCA's. Thanks for a good solid run in the car audio industry, unfortunately you have disgracefully bowed out to whatever it is you claim to make now, which IMO is garbage except for the higher end overpriced line of subs you make. You have officially joined most of the other mainstream junkyards, congratulations. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/graduate.gif.d982460be9f153bb54e5d4cb744f6ae8.gif
So i bought a MTX TE601D from a local dealer thru craigslist. He sold me this amp along with a MTX7510 subwoofer for only $250 new. The amp alone still retails around $479 and the sub around $200 ish. I was like D@MN this is a helluva deal ! I quickly found out why, and should have taken the hint when the dealer himself told me that he would no longer be selling MTX products and these items were his last on clearance.
I made the spec box for the sub and installed the amp. I was sending 600 watts to a 400 watt subwoofer and that lasted for about 2 weeks. After that the amp started to cut out when my volume was up fairly high. Sometimes the sub and amp would cut out for about 2 or 3 seconds and cut back on. Then i get in the truck one night and the amp is on and completely lit and no sound at all. I checked everything over 2 times. Go in the store, come back out and all of a sudden it works. WTHell? After it did that for the second time it was back to the drawing board, Craigslist,lol.
This is the twist, i sell it to a friend of mine( what a good friend i am right?) ,for the same price i got it for, bought a Sundown sae 1000d with that cash, no probs, awesome amp. The MTX amp works fine for him for a week or 2 and starts doin the same thing all over again. This is the best part. He calls MTX and they try to diagnose the problem for him like he doesnt have a clue in the world. They cant tell him whats wrong with the amp, but they do tell him that if he ships it in to them, get this, they would only charge him $85 to completely change out the whole circuit board AND ship it back to him.
WTF? They are selling a nice glossy over featured amp with all kinds of cooling features for $500 w/ shipping included, and the whole d@mn board only costs about $60, what a joke. No wonder it was a piece of junk.
Thank you MTX for the older 1501D and all other great products you used to make. It has treated me like a KING and is still running strong to this day, minus the re-soldered RCA's. Thanks for a good solid run in the car audio industry, unfortunately you have disgracefully bowed out to whatever it is you claim to make now, which IMO is garbage except for the higher end overpriced line of subs you make. You have officially joined most of the other mainstream junkyards, congratulations. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/graduate.gif.d982460be9f153bb54e5d4cb744f6ae8.gif
