Phoenix Gold Phorum

What was the first amp that you owned that wasn't a piece of crap. Not necessairly high end but just not crap


Mine was a Pioneer GM-H120. Had it bridged to a pair of Pioneer 8's in my El Camino ... set up sounded pretty good

Had 1 in highschool, sold it and eventually rebought 2 of em again



My first piece fo crap system was a Jensen 150x2 amp pushing a set of Crunch 15's

didnt 1 of those get jacked outta my trans am at the bowling alley

Yea, these are the 2 amps I had in my Olds when we worked at O'Reillys


They stole one of them and my PPI crossover

In my first install I had a Kenwood Amps KAC823 running 10" subs (higher end Kenwood) and then I added a Kenwood PS100 and Boston Acoustic Pro Series Seperates to replace the deck powered Coxials. I had that system for 3 years. Since then its been nothing but Phoenix Gold amps except for a couple amps given to me.

I had a Mobile authority thump and and about 4 different 12's in all different boxes but my first decent amp was a old school Hifonics Hawk , one of the best small amps made in my opinion , I still got it (broken) and I picked up a used one a few years back to asdd to the stash

Mine was an MTX 500D. The damn thing got hot enough to Bar-b-q on, but it did throw out the power. My first amp ever was some Sony pos that somehow I did not manage to kill.

My first set up was an xs2500 with an xmax 12" (that I still own and use).just kept adding to the system from there. Got a ZX500 from Cade, then switched to ZX series (one 500 per xmax, 450 for the fronts). HFront components were ID CD1pro minihorns. I miss those now that I have an EQ that can tame the horns.

My first ever amp was a LANZAR ?LRX200? It was mean, but would over heat and shut off all the time. Other then that it was a beast, loved it.....miss it

The 1st all around amp I had that was the sh!t was a Clarion APA4160, 40 X 4 @ 4 ohms. I had that amp pushing Clarion 5x7s up front on chs 1 and 2, and two 10" PG XS subs bridged to chs 3 and 4 at 2 ohms and it took every bit of abuse and never faultered.

I sold it to a friend of mine when I got my ZX450v2. He now knows to sell it back to me when time comes.

I had some barnyard systems, but the one that really kicked it off was the 2 JL 12W0's sealed powered by a USAcoustics 2150, JVC headunit..not sure which one, but it talked to me..said hello and the such..

I do remember when Crunch hit the Streets though ahh good ole' High School days in CA.

i'd have to say is was my Sony Xplod (200rmsx2) back in 2001...had it on a couple of the xplod 12's...actually sounded pretty tight.

560 wrms pounding my Adire Audio Shiva back in HS...

Same thing as power acoustik...decent amp...not bad looking either....I think it was $100 brand new....

Pioneer power booster pushing a pair of 6x9s. My friends were amazed.

My first amp was....an alpine I forget the model #....worked great on my pair of Orion 10" Xtr's....

Then I got in a car accident and then that amp went bye bye....
Then I replaced it with something cheap to get me by. And then replace that one with an MTX SOmething rather...and that worked out well. Then got into PG gear after that.

I had an alpine amp with some burned up fets on a PG XS12.

RF punch 45 running two "ON SALE" coustic 10's........I think they were like $29 at the time........after that got jacked moved on to some Orion hcca's....225's one on comps and one on three JL 10w6's back in the late 80's those bastards weren't cheap. I am still a fan of the Old School Orion's.

XS2300 pushing two XS10d4 subs at 2 ohms a piece. Had the two tens sealed under the bench seat of my 88 standard cab Chevy Pickup.
Everytime the bass hit both the passenger and the driver would get a French Tickler.

M44

Had a locally manufatured ICE 280 , 2 x 80rms got as hot as hell , even melted the solder on the board.

Still regarded in SA as a good amp. Designed by Zed I think when he was in South Africa, or the other dude who did the early hi-fonics stuff.

then had a range of stuff, Jensen, Star Sound , clarion, Alpine and finally bought my amp back in 2001. SOFAS

xs4600 still have it. still runs like a champ!

two punch 30's, one on 2- 6x9's and one 12, the other on two more 6x9's, fronts running off of deck. I have to laugh at it now, all that crap stuck in the back of an early CRX.

my first ever self bought amp was the mtx 250d or something similar use to blast 2 mtx 10 inch subbie in the middle of the night and was given a earful by parents.. grew away from spl since

mine was a RF200ix running a single Celestion 15"
then swapped the RF for an Alpine MRV1000 when they came out

my first amp that put out any power was a hd mosfet punch 75 pushing a pair of hella beat 10s in a early 80s datsun 200sx, i had a alpine pullout cassette deck, pair of kicker ?4in separates run off a tiny sony amp that got so hot it burned a hole in the carpet ...dont think pantera c.f.h. has sounded that good since

hehe nice. i remember my uncle walking around the store caring his tape player on a handle...