Amp Advise ( :( )

Hey,

My DEI 600d amp died last night:( (blew up on me, no idea why, and the warranty expired in October - I really think that they plan these things...)

SO - I'm looking for a replacement and was considering getting the same amp again (...then fixing this one/selling it to someone else/etc...) but thought I'd bounce the idea here for recommendations first...

What do you guys recommend? I'm pushing 2 JL Audio 10W6's (300 watt contineous each..) and I'm definately in the market for a D-class amp.

-mark

How about a JL Audio 500/1 or 1000/1? I have a modest 250/1 for my small sub (JL 8.2 micro)

Bruno

...It's a pretty big amp.. (19.7"L x 9.25"W x 2.36"H) - the good thing about most class-d amps is that they're a) more effecient and b) smaller... Also a must - a bass knob.


-mark

The JL produces at least 500watts at all speaker loads and has processing features and tuneability not found on anything else. I'll forward you a current thread over at the carsound.com forum when I get home tonight. I saw it last night after reading your post.

Better late than never. You would not believe how many times I copied this link and managed to forget to paste it into this thread. :)

JL 500/1 thread...
http://www.carsound.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/012895.html

I just have to warn you that the carsound forums have a fairly low signal to noise ratio sometimes. Not as bad as most other forums, but it can get a little silly.

Bruno

Thanks for the link; I ended up getting a deal that I couldn't pass up though.. the stereo shop that I purchased that amp from (the Directed 600d) upgraded me to the 1000d version for $200... (...so I don't have to wait 1 month for a out-of-warranty repair, and they can probably send it in as-is and make their money on it when they get a new one..)

I'm worried about blowing my speakers now though:) Need to measure what ohmage my speakers are hooked up at, but this amp pumps out 1400watts in 1 ohm.. (or, 750 watts/2 ohms.. ) problem is my speakers can only handle 250 watts:)

-mark

I'm worried about blowing my speakers now though

A more powerful amplifier is not more likely to blow your speakers. In fact, it is less likely.

Don't misunderstand: it IS more capable of blowing your speakers, but that's only if you're silly enough to crank the volume up to unreasonable levels.

A more powerful amplifier means you can attain the same volume from your speakers at a lower amplifier gain setting. This means you are less likely to send a clipped signal to your speakers, and it is clipping that blows speakers.

You could connect a single speaker to a 50,000 watt football stadium amplifier, and as long as you didn't try to make the speaker deliver more decibels of sound than it was physically capable of producing, the speaker would be just fine. You could connect a 50 watt amplifier to the same speaker and run the gain up so high that it was clipping, and fry the speaker.

Whether you blow your speakers or not isn't a function of how powerful an amplifier you have, but of signal quality and how loud you try to make the speakers play.

tanstaafl.