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#SOUNDSTREAM TA1.2000D UPGRADE#
I also hope to have a new car soon which will allow me to have a 5 cubes box, but this will be a while after the upgrade to 2k. Was just about to say, after all this money going from 1k to 2k, would i see gains that justify the price? i mean doubling the power but the cost of an amp, battery, wire, none of which is cheap. I got lucky and got mine on Black Firday : If you can get ahold of any AQ/SQ 2200's go for it they are highly recommended by people running them. I agree that you need at least 2k for those speakers to be performing. I guess the sweet spot for me is on the cheap side lol.Look into the welding wire it's super hot people are all over it trying to save cash and are super happy with it for performance. Wow, thanks for the in depth explanation. It's pretty amazing that you can get a 2 kW amplifier for $200 (ignore that it's being marketed as a 4 kW amp). That being said, amplifier power is cheaper than ever (thanks to Class D topology). As with anything, there is a sweet spot for everyone. It's upto the wise buyer to decide on what would work for him/her. Higher end products generally are rated and built more conservatively, which drives up the price. These models bench in the ballpark of 3 kW with a sine wave. If you check birth sheets of these models, you'd see that they're probably more powerful than the "4000W Continuous / 8000W Max" Soundstream and Hifonics amps that we were talking about. Import duties (not so much of a factor here)įor example, these amps may only be rated at 2,400 - 2,500 watts but they're actually guaranteed to meet that specification: Price differences from the same retailer generally may be caused by:ģ. Slightly more if the car has a beefed-up electrical system, and much less with factory electricals. We can pretty much consider the Hifonics and Soundstream amps in our discussion as 2 kW amplifiers when tested with a sine wave and powered realistically, and maybe reach 3 kW with music. That should be sufficient for your described use case. There are people who claim to have dyno tested the AR1.8000D to deliver about 80% of rated output (3.2 kW) in real-world conditions (using a large alternator and extra batteries) from a dynamic measurement standpoint.
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Is it just the brand or what?Įither should do what you need.
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So what actually causes the huge price difference.
#SOUNDSTREAM TA1.2000D FULL#
I'm probably only going to run the thing on full blast like a couple minutes per week, so hopefully I'll be okay. Depending on the use, you may be able to push much more than this without damage (in cases of powerful transients without reaching mechanical limits) or damage it with far less power (if you constantly hit mechanical limits due to the wrong enclosure design or infrasonic filter setting). The subwoofer's power rating is generally just the maker's rated thermal capacity for the voice coil. An amplifier hitting its limits will clip its output waveform, causing nasty distortion. It's nearly impossible to buy an amp that's too powerful with today's Class D designs (because they are so efficient that even a huge amp won't waste a lot of power). Like cheap power supplies, cheap amplifiers often do not output rated capacity (by how much, it really depends on a lot of factors). Its aim is to replicate the input waveform in frequency, but produce a proportionally greater amplitude (this amplification factor is what they call "gain"). An amplifier is an AC power supply with an output that's modulated according to the input signal from your source. The more powerful the amplifier, the more headroom you have (it is your subwoofer's power supply). In other words, would buying an 8000 watt amp potentially cause any problems when powering a much smaller rms sub?Īs long as you are not maxing out the amplifier, then you are safe. So are subs exactly like PCs in the fact that having a power supply/amp with way more power than needed is what you want? So, I'm still kind of new to car audio, hence my presence in this forum, and I am a little confused about subwoofers power draw.
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I do still have a couple questions though.