Phoenix Gold Phorum

Have you guys seen this monster?? Talk about replacing leaking caps, check this out!!





More pics here. Here are the specs:

Output Power at 14.4V and 1% THD (CEA-2006):
4 x 500W @ 4 ohm
4 x 1000W @ 2 ohm
4 x 2000W @ 1 ohm
4 x 3750W @ ½ ohm
2 x 2000W @ 4 ohm bridged
2 x 4000W @ 2 ohm bridged
2 x 7500W @ 1 ohm bridged
Dimensions: 37.5 x 22 x 10 in (95.3 x 55.9 x 25.4 cm)
Weight: 180 Lbs. (81.8 Kg.)

So, thoughts???

its a rockford amp..thats my thoughts.

i heard if u use one during a lunar eclipse it will send your car 6000 years into the future.... thats why fosgate will not risk a demo of them at night.

Had a review of one back awhile in Car Audio. I want to say it was the directory issue.

Technology looks good, it has potential , but again it's RF and bring with it that RF attitude.

Also there are problems with the hybirid tech , hence they have not released it into their normal amps, if you read the review it tells you how it works and how it becomes a hybrid amp.

Simple principles and makes use of very clever caps. I know they did 60 coils on 1 amp at one point, but I think that was done before by other manufact

A lot Of Caps, and there on the 12 volt side only. A cap bank like that on the output side would be interesting to say the least. But it appears they were only worried about 12 volts.....

I have heard others describe this amp as a 3 kilo-watt amp with a huge carbon alloy cap bank. Of course they were referring to the 4 ohm, 2ohm ratings only, and the entire bottom plate of CAP capacitors < pretty much accurate>

Running any amp at 1 ohm even RF amps is just pushing your luck with design and assembly methods of the maker. 1 ohm current demands will probably pop the amp, just like it does for most others out there.

It appears to be Class AB MOSFET by design, which is RF typical. I have heard that it ran a wall of speakers at the CES, and at 180 pounds it definitely will affect your gas mileage. And no one in a stock auto will have enough power to run this amp effectively.

Other than all that it is a impressive build project, but way to big for a typical street cars trunk......RF was over the top with this one. My worries would be reliability and usefulness of the amp in a typical street car, and with its current price tag, its way out range of even the most driven car audio fanatic. That alone might make it a great advertising gimmick for Rockford, as they will certainly not sell any big number of these.....C

Here is an install using 2 of these beasts!!

Only looked at the first page of pics, but all that $$$$ for equipment and no deadening?!?!?

RATIFIED wrote:Only looked at the first page of pics, but all that $$$$ for equipment and no deadening?!?!?

Keep going man, there are 24 pages, he gets to it somewhere in there.

Looks like a sloppy mess to me. . . I'm glad I'm not stuck with the install or the price tag for one of those!

Hey C, apparently this amp does not draw huge current , the caps do most of the work delivering current , storage bank for spikes, it is apparently very efficient and has loads of headroom.
I seen it in SA on 30 odd woofers and 15 odd 6x9's as a demo on 2 batteries and did not look too bad.

And yeah it's freaking huge, they pitching this as a true SQ amp , they have asmaller 5kw comming too , but the price will not be cheap , I have the article at home on the design around this amp and it is not as impressive as they make it out ot be, they making use of a new storage type of cap.

This post was just brought to my attention. The guy doing the install is my box man tust me he ain't sloppy. This is a world class install. Awesome work stop and look again! Hell I got my pic with that amp i was so impressed!

didnt click link but im sure you are talking about steve meade...his stuff is tha bomb

I've seen the youtube videos before...pretty nice...

that amp is amazing 17k watts of 350A of curent.

Definitely not sloppy. Steve Meade is the polar opposite of sloppy.

Anyone know what that "form finder" is? I need one of those...