My Alpine 1005 is a great amp at 2ohm......and can be puchaced for a fraction of the price I paid a year ago!

 

best amp brand.
Sony Xplod.

 

Ha - the price of aluminum for the amp barely touches the cost of the components in the amplifier and the engineering behind it, not to mention the cost of manufacturing. Over 40% of what you are paying for is labor, just like anything else. Someone needs to test everything.

But as long as more and more human controlled positions are taken over by automation then items can be mass-produced quicker with less costs. I mean, paying $15/hr to just one employee is over 30k/year roughly, when you can buy one machine that will do that employees job twice as fast and with zero human error.

Aluminum and copper may have went up (IMO not even close to sky rocketed) but just look at the shelves for your answer. Alpine 1000 watt brand new only costs around 500, whereas old Orion amps that were rated at 1200 cost roughly 1200 a few years back.

It's all about Class D vs. Class a/b. Class D is cheaper to make, who cares about the cost of the aluminum on the heatsink? Heatsinks have gotten lighter, considerably smaller footprint and that right there costs less than in the past too.

Umm yeah, lemme go get some "dual" brand subs to bump on that xplod amp.

 

that'd be a killer setup

 

PDX-1100 is still $1000.00 is it not?

 

The first post in this thread asked what amp was best and then said low budget.
Best and budget don't go together. They don't even come close.

How about fairly good and faily inexpensive, maybe a reasonable compromise of price vs. quality.

One suggestion, since i've been looking into some for myself, Pioneer PRS-D3000spl? 1000 wrms@2ohm. there was one only slightly used in the for sale section, don't know if it's gone yet. Do a google search for current pricing.

 

k i didnt mean like best best brand... i was trying to say BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK type of amp....yea i know i have a low budget for such a big amp and i am hoping for something real good... i just kind of wanted help on what brands to shoot for when looking around... and i was planning on buying used the whole time.. but like i said before Steve from SmartASS has me covered on a amp.... thanks for all yoour guyz's input

 

I've heard good things about elemental

http://www.edesignaudio.com/edv2/index.php?cPath=22

they are pretty good bang for the buck.

Personally running Alpine right now but have a friend who will build using all elemental

 

they are also a way worse amp i wasnt talking about a d class amp i wouldnt run one myself i have before, and im not saying that they are bad just they good if you want your ride to sound good your going to want to stay away from class d amps.

 

talk to vendor Smartass for a Ultimate T3 500D 1000 RMS at 2 ohms i've used one for a short while myself before i upgraded and it sounds very nice and clean power, think he sells them for 275$ demo modle which is what i bougth and there was nothing wrong with it

-Richard