Is this a good amp? I cant find much reviews about it

[DDCSpeed]

Hi, ATers'

I am planning to get a subwoofer system in my car soon and I am wondering if this is a good amp for the price $200. Sony XPlod (xm2150gsx) with 760 watt max power 2-channel amplifer. I am thinking of using this amp to push 2 10" which will probably be 400 watts each. Can someone suggest me a good amp about this price? I want to get a system for approximately 400-500 dollars : )
Thanks.

 

[mztykal]

You can get a JBL BP600.1 for the same price or cheaper off E-Bay. It's a 600-watt mono class d amp that's stable at 1-ohm.

 

[djk]

Don't look at MAX power.. or DYNAMIC power.. Look at RMS or Continuous power. .. If you're looking at subs, you might want to consider the damping factor, but no companies list em anyways. As for a sub, any decent brand with enough RMS/continuous power will do fine.. Don't automatically think that hooking them up in series/parallel will get you more power. Theres a trade off to everything. You'll get more power, under less resistance, but your sound will become sloppy.. You sacrafice control for more power and your amps will become much hotter much faster.

 

[mztykal]

Um, no. RMS power on subs mean shiet. A Shiva can handle a lot of power but sounds good with 300-watts TOTAL.

 

[phatcow]

ummmmm a shiva wont sound good with 300 watts rms... i dont knwo what kind of crack your smoking....

when you have 300 watts rms on a sub thats designed for 1200RMS, the measly 300 will NOT be able to effectively move the cone and voice coil, thus affecting your frequency response....

 

[C'DaleRider]

About your amp, at its rated 150 watts/channel into 4 ohms at 0.04THD, 20-20KHz, it should have enough power. That peak power rating of 760 amps is only on a momentary power spike or burst measured in milliseconds in duration......it cannot sustain anything but that RMS power rating.

Those speakers that are "400 watts" just refers to their ability to handle either a peak power burst of 400 watts speakers (transient power handling) or continuous power handling, depending on how the mfgr. rated them. This rating is farily immaterial as most subs will absorb anything that Sony will put out.

 

[DDCSpeed]

so....alll in all should i get this amp?

 

[NutBucket]

Should be fine for your application. I'm running a pair of Fosgate 10's (100 W rms) off of a Kenwood KAC-X210T amp that's supposedly 75 x2 (I think its more) and it sounds good to me.

 

[Beau]

Personally I wouldn't buy a Sony XPlod. Every installer that I have ever spoken to has never mentioned anything positive about them. Secondly, if you are just running a sub off of it, you'd be better off getting a class-d mono amp. Much more efficient and better sounding. The JBL 600.1 amp is a great amp, I just added to my system.

 

[Beau]

Also, what subs are you using? How many ohm's are they rated at? What is the enclosure application that you are planning on (sealed, vented, bandpass). Choosing an amp well relies on what all the components are in the rest of the system.

 

[BillGates]

The only sony stuff I'd really buy is home theater, maybe TVs - all of their car audio has always seemed to be bland and mediocre - but maybe that's just me?

 

[mztykal]

So phatcow you're saying a Shiva won't sound good with 600-watts? Lying bastage.

 

[phatcow]

hello, moron.,

So phatcow you're saying a Shiva won't sound good with 600-watts? Lying bastage

with 600 watts they will sound fine
they will not

sounds good with 300-watts TOTAL

like you said earlier...


forget your ghetto high school education, for 300 does not equal 600....



duh

 

[GooberPHX420]

Sony SUCKS for amps

 

[kt]

STAY AWAY FROM SONY!