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View Poll Results: What's your favourite amp brand(s)?
Alpine
13
25.00%
Rockford Fosgate
22
42.31%
Pioneer
3
5.77%
Kenwood
1
1.92%
Sony
2
3.85%
MTX
3
5.77%
Kicker
7
13.46%
Memphis
10
19.23%
US Amps
4
7.69%
Soundstream
4
7.69%
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What's your favourite Amplifier brand?

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Old 12-02-2008, 11:09 AM
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either Pyramid, Legacy (if you want ultra high end...overkill as far as I'm concerned), Targa, Audiovox, and if you can find them...as they're very exclusive...Sparkomatic!
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Old 12-02-2008, 11:45 AM
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out of all those, id say memphis, us amps and soundstream are the best mentioned
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Old 12-02-2008, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by admincca
Oh yea, I know, the old Rodek stuff rocked. ... 2250 was it?

And the old school Orion, I always loved the HCCAs and SX series.

I had a nice set of old school PPIs that came with a fox I had bought, art series.. LOL, sold them for $35, all 4. LOL

My wife ran 2 Rockford Amps in her car. She sold it, and the person we know is still running the system. 6 years strong!

I opted for Kicker though
Those Rodek amps were great, the new ones are not so nice but that true of alot of car audio makers products.
I think the models were the RA2150, RA2180 and I had a RA2300 running 2 RF Power 15's delievering a very underrated 2x300@4ohms
I liked the old RF amps too, I recently bought a Power 1100a2 from ebay but my trunk turned into a oven So I opted for a DD M2a with a matching DD S4.
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Old 12-02-2008, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Father Yuli
what i would like to see is those 11 or whatever people who picked Fosgate actually telling us why Fosgate is so great?
Those people voted according RF Advertisements and seeing there crap in Future shop or Best buy .

I just love memphis amps its going to be my next amp , problem is its too big lol. I would choose Memphis over RF n Kicker

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Old 12-02-2008, 08:27 PM
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brand names

I would probably say it depends on what application is it for. Alot of those brand names has its high's and low's model - it makes it difficult to judge. Such as...there's True Technology for quality performance, American Bass for SPL, and pretty sure there's more favourites for other types as well. But for budget and an average listening...Rockford Fosgate!
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Old 12-03-2008, 07:42 AM
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Kicker and Audison

also like zapco,crossfire,old school coustic and rodek
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Old 12-03-2008, 10:36 AM
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RF all the way. I've had problems with every other brand in the poll except Memphis and US amps as I have never used them. RF I have used from 1993 to now with not a problem. The sound quality is the same for all decent brand amps if you set the gains correctly. It is the reliability that means the most.
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Old 12-03-2008, 12:49 PM
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Might be kinda low-end for you guys, but what about Exile?
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Old 12-03-2008, 03:29 PM
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I find it interesting that so many keep going on about sound quality when it's been demonstrated numerous times by many reputable testers that no human has been able to tell the difference between amps in a double blind test with levels matched. Do I have to mention Richard clark's name or the amp challenge?? He still hasn't paid out yet. You would figure by now that some golden ear would have won. I guess the differences are so obvious that your mind shuts down and doesn't allow you to hear them...lol. This only applies to SQ, not aesthetics, reliability, efficiency, design goals etc...
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Old 12-03-2008, 04:01 PM
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I have no loyalty, I pick whatever meets my needs. These days for me it has to be small. I don't give a crap what logo was slaped on these very similar asian amps hehe.
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