what's the best amp?
 

i'm gettin Polk MOMO 12"s for my car. they're 1000 watt max. what's the best amp out there for me. lookin to spend 3hundo or so on an amp if need be.

there are many...
 

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I'm running a brand new Coustic 600 watt amp.
It hits pretty good. most of the time, *****s be runnin a 1000 watt amp. what's the point, da lancer rattles too much if you pump too much base. if you are interested check it out
www.coustic.com

i'm rollin a jetta, not a lancer. (yet)

Check out rockford amps... the 500.2 would run those subs sweet and if your a total basshead the 800.2 would kick thier ass... cant go wrong with rockford amps :headbang: :thumbup: :headbang: :thumbup:

How powerful is the stock amp? How many watts? and how many watts is the stcok speakers? (for an OZ rally)

I can say that McIntosh (sp?) are without a doubt some of the finer amps out there. Expensive like motherfu_kers but they produce gobs of clean power. Gotta love the blue illuminated displays on 'em to...

100Watts Peak

Re: what's the best amp?
 

You may wanna consider aiming for a more expensive amp and trying to find it at a lower price on ebay or something as well. Definitely worth considering.

I'm a huge fan of Lightning Audio, but honestly they're pretty much just RF boards just in nicer cases and with different inputs etc. Bolt series is crap, but Strike and Thunder are pretty damn nice. :thumbup:

maybe this should be a n00b question, but: what's the difference b/w RMS and Peak wattage...
like, some of the amps at that page are 400 watt with peak at 1200... what's the difference? and if the subs are 500RMS with peak at 1k why don't they just say 1000watt? :dunno:
anyone care to explain to this n00b

Hobie are u talking about MAX POWER? or CONTINUOUS?

my 10 inch compvr's have a peak of 600 i think but only hand 300 continuous smoothly.

RMS power is what any amp can supply continuously. Peak power is what it can put out in small bursts. The same can be said with speakers, the higher the RMS rating the better: they can handle high power amps without fear of distortion and with a high peak, can handle those crescendos that are in all music. Signal to noise ration, the higher the first number the better since you're getting more of what you want to hear and less distortion. (I don't think you asked that question though :updown: )

Pretty sure you just confused him...........

and since 500watts is (for all practical purposes) a ****load of wattage, and since they're rated 500 RMS, i can throw the amp to 500 and they're not gonna distort?

other part of the question... the amps i'm looking at say stuff like "Total Power 200Watts, 1200Watts Peak"
that means i should run them at 200 watts if i don't wanna have a metal blob for an amplifier... and should only crank the bad boy up if i'm tryin to show off? :apimp:

i'm learnin slowly but surely

Don't forget to upgrade that alternator.

what's that? and what's a capacitor do?