I have a fellow ready to sell me this amp for $850 Canadian... IS it a good amp ? I am looking on buying either a zapco AG650 or this one...
what are your opinions on this ? I hear soundstream has some reliabilty problems...
This is a ltd edition amp.Only 1000 made.
pic of amp on left.

http://www.rb5wr.com/gallery/forsale...s/PB250526.jpg
http://www.rb5wr.com/gallery/forsale...s/PB250524.jpg

[ December 22, 2003, 10:36 PM: Message edited by: Rob ]

Pick it up if you can. Continuums are a rare bird. Good find, btw.

Actually the seller found me ! hahah

He is telling me that Brand new these amps were $3000 ? He wants $850 for the amp... Good deal ?

I will test it to make sure it works first.

I've heard 'stories' of these amps selling for far more than even $3000. But like I said....stories. Gotta find some awfully gullible guy for that.

I found this writeup about soundstream:
http://www.teamrocs.net/ces/report/page3.htm

scroll down.

what are the specs of this amp ? what makes it so good ?

any info would be appreciated.

Yeah, I heard about reliability problems with some of those lines, like Rubicon and Reference. I'm not all up on SS, except their highest end stuff. The Continuum shouldn't really give you much trouble though. If I had it, I wouldn't worry entirely...they're not that hard to find parts for if the internals/transistors bust. And the local dealer that does SS is a good guy. :D

Thats a beautiful amp, they sure don't make them like that anymore. Stay away from SS's newer line of products, and their older rubicon amplifiers. They seem to be plagued with problems. The reference series of amps were great IMO.

I owned a pair of rubicon lil'wonders. I really liked them. One of them developed a nasty thermal issue when bridged @4ohm unfortunately, but that was after about three years of use.

I'm sorry to let you know...a good friend of mine had one of those amps and he had nothing but problems...it blew up twice, it was professionally installed by the dealer to specs for load. He sold it and never looked back.

I am not eager to buy the amp.... not even for $800...the guy told me he had teh board replaced on it...

(there's a reason why he is selling it)

A friend of mine has two of these amps , he will only use them on his front speakers , for his sub(s) he will be useing a Soundstream Class A10.0 amp .

The Continuum is a 5-channel amp which is rated at 4*50W+1*200W @4ohm and 12V .
Bridged it will give 2*200W+1*400W ( 2*200W @4ohm mono and the 400W is rated at a 1ohm load , all at 13.6V ) .

These ar good amps , the SQ is good and they are underrated , but if you realy push the amp to it's limit ( sub channel into a 1ohm load ) you can have a problem with the power supply .

Read both pages of this thread.

http://www.carsound.com/UBB/ultimate...;f=18;t=005432

I was looking at a Soundstream Class A 10.0 for my front stage and have decided against it.

They seem to have gone down hill when they were first bought out (around the same time they came out with the Airbass keychain remote).
Too bad cause they're just so sexy looking.

I currently have a rubicon 805, same power specs as the cont. amp. i've had no problems with it. and for 850 its a smokin deal. my amp new way almost $2300.
i bought my amp in 99 and its been great.
even at at 1 ohm on the sub-channel i'm not having any power suppy issues.
i'm running 50X4 on the front and rear (soundstream exact 6.3's) and 400x1 on 4 jl10w0s.
i will soon be running 200x2 on the fronts and no rears, just have to build my kicks.
i love my soundstream stuff.