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Man!!! Loved every second of this video! I loved Pyramid back in the day. Loved their LED spectrum analyzer displays so much. I remember getting my dad to bring me to the local flea market as much as he could on Saturdays, so I could look at the new pyramid brand items that they had for sale. I love looking at the cool woofers, the tweeters, the amplifiers, and the spectrum analyzer equalizers from pyramid! It just brings so much joy to my heart to see these things again! For the little bit of money I had as a young teenager, Pyramid was where it was at for me!
There has to be warehouses full of Pyramid and other flea market type audio NIB somewhere. There was so much of the stuff it couldn't have all gotten sold.
Back in 1994 my first car was a 1984 300ZX. I put together a system for around $300 that consisted of a 10” MTX band pass box which I upgraded with Marathon subs, three low wattage Coustic Power Logic amps, one for subs and the other two for mids/highs, 4 factory full range 5 1/2” for mids, a set of cheap Pioneer dome tweeters from Walmart, an Optimus single disc player, and finally a Pyramid electronic crossover that a buddy of mine gave me. That crossover brought that system to the next level and people couldn’t believe it was just two 10”s. The best memories of those days was everyone gathering around each other’s car to check out what you had inside. And it was all about seeing how loud you could get while maintaining SQ. Fun times.
Back in the 80's Pyramid was barely flea-market fodder. But we all bought some of their stuff when we couldn't afford Pyle, Blaupunckt or Kraco! We used to get things like Pyramid power Boster-EQ's and counter-fit Pioneer speakers (looked like Pioneer...didn't sound like Pioneer) at the San Jose Flea Market. Problem was they never lasted very long! LOL
Back in the mid 90s I had a gold colored "200 watt" 4 channel Pyramid powered eq and a 2 channel Pyramid amp (I think it was 2x500 but I'm not sure), bridged, powering my single MTX Eliminator 12. It was my first system. I got them brand new at a flea market outside of Chicago. I loved it at the time. My car was an '85 Mercury Cougar (with the 5.0L V8 😎). It definitely bumped.... That sure does bring back a lot of great memories!!
I had 2 12 inch pyramid super blue in a bandpass with the plexi window and 2 aero ports on each side. On a pyramid super blue 2800watt (purple surfboard amp) I now know wasn't close to 2800 watts but man that shit was beatin! Everyone could not believe how good it sounded. I did have it on an eq which helped a lot.
I had a buddy in high school with 2 blue thunder 12's and all pyramid amps speakers and it was overly impressive for a 90's system and respectable if he were here bumpin 2day... r.i.p. Mike.
@@wal2 they did, but you had to learn their line really well and maybe tear down a few items to discern the hidden gems from the utter crap (the vast majority of their product lineup was crap or utter crap)
These are the kind of videos I like to see. I love to see the not so popular brands that do good. You can spend less money and still have good results. Always loved the look of the pyramid super pro subs with red surround , never had any though , dont know if they were good or not . great video . Thanks
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Ran many flea market brands in 80s,most pyramid was actually pretty decent ,any old schoolers remember proton? I had a passive eq,it was freaking amazing
Yes I remember proton had 2 of there amps ,one small tweeter amp fit under the dash,an one bigger amp mono block for subs .seemed to be great quality .
Absolutely! This must have been a true NIB find. display was perfect looking, buttons perfect looking, and you could tell those caps haven't seen hardly any, *if* any, voltage.
I love equalizers. Believe it or not I've had a rockwood XR-064 7 band passive equalizer for over 25 years and it still works flawlessly! I love the up and down sliders as opposed to knobs.
Back in the early to mid 90s an EQ booster like that would have been welcome in a budget build for mids & highs or even a full range system if you didn't care about bass. Pyramid likely wouldn't have gotten such a rotten reputation if they had advertised even semi-accurate wattage ratings on their gear. 15x4 watts today is barely head unit power but back in the early to mid 90s it was respectable as many stock head units only output 2-5 watts per channel and even a lot of aftermarket ones only did about 10 watts per channel. Plus you got the EQ to do your V pattern! I remember in 1991 my parents bought a Plymouth minivan that had a "premium" Infinity cassette audio system, it was a $600-800 add-on over the price of the stock audio system. That system only had a total of 80 watts RMS, 27x2 in the rear and 13x2 in the front. It had an separate amp unit that was located near the foot area of the passenger front seat. I remember teenage me looking into trying to hack into the system to install a powered Bazooka Tube that I wanted to tuck under or next to the middle bench seat. But my dad forbid me from doing so. Ahh those were the days!
The chip specs say 30W/channel at 10% THD. 10%, not 1%. So yeah, had you ran a test up to 10% you'd likely get 30 watts, or at least the advertised 25 instead of 14, but it would sound horrendous. Regardless, that's a pretty cool EQ and would be a worthy upgrade for anyone looking to power some aftermarket speakers as that's enough power to set fire to a set of 80s or 90s era OEM speakers.
I had the loudest car stereo at my high school. Everyone else had the big money... I had a 1967 Galaxie so I had a big trunk. (2) 15" Pyramid Super Pro's in a 7 cu ft sealed box. They were the high end super pros with American flag dust cover. 120 oz magnets and 2.5 vc's, 102db/1w (looked alot like a peavey) . Impressive specs for 1995. Ran them with a 2ft long Rockwood surfboard amp. $600 in the whole setup and no one could come close. Craziest thing is if you know 65-67 Galaxies. That box was above the rear-end under the package tray and I still had more trunk than most cars could dream of...
@@wal2 that's my exact amp! Still have it in the basement. It started popping fuses after years of hard use but it still looked like new so I couldn't toss it. Mine is plain silver but same amp. Same specs. Same cheesy disco graphics. Good find sir!
That reminds me of my set-up. Cheap as all hell but it sounded great. I really think that RockWood amp is not too bad, especially considering price (mine being something like 60 W X 4 for $100 give or take). Plus, I think it was the specially designed box that I made that helped for my two 15" Annihilator subs in something like a 10 cu ft ported box. I did not have that large of trunk (I had a harchback), though, so that custom box claimed ALL the space. You gotta have priorities, right? The "system"' comes fist! I still can't match the sound that I had with that box. Such deep bass extension and with clarity. It would not POUND where you can hear it for miles, but accuracy was simply stunning. Eventually it got stolen :(
Blast from the past!!! I remember seeing these at the flea market back in the day!. Late in the 90s i ended up getting a Rockwood 7 band eq with a claimed 300 watts for my first car 😂 😂😂 I'm actually pretty shocked how descent that Pyramid EQ is. I was a teen in the 90s and even back then i knew Pyramid was a sub-par brand, but we all bought it cause it bumped and it was cheap 😂
Backbin the 90s a friend of mine did car audio competitions. He got a local store to sponsor them. They gave him a couple Pyramid Super Blue 12s. Those things hit hard as hell. He kept braking windows in his car.
More thoughts: Pyramid were PERFECTLY capable of producing excellent products, so there was no need to lie on their budget items with bogus "peak" wattage numbers. What did "Peak" mean anyway - the power output it can muster for 1/20,000th of a second before the rails collapse? The power rating the amp might have gotten in an alternate universe where the laws of physics are different from ours? Ratings determined by a tarot card reading or seance? The bet the PM placed on a horse with the bookie the night before? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They should have rated these 15, 30, etc. watt amps honestly, and let the legacy, super pro and better super blue and other decent amp ratings speak for themselves. I really think they cannibalized their own sales by rating the cramp amps with fictional ratings matching their higher-quality amplifiers actual output, and they did often overstate power output on even their high quality items. I wonder if any former Pyramid folks follow this channel - it'd be interesting to get their take on how Pyramid rated and positioned their products (and also how they made these decisions internally).
I ran two 12" pioneer impp subs off a legacy 300 amp back in the day and it sounded great for a first system build. The first legacy series of amps weren't bad at all. Ordered it from a mcm electronics catalog
I installed a ton of pyromid. Flee market companies would roll into town advertizing it. They would get a full system for less than a Hunskie, come to our shop and have us install it. Half the time the equipment was DOA right out the box. FUUUNN Times
I had the model under this one hooked up to a 12 volt power supply from an old IBM PC running a pair of 20 watt JVC boom box speakers in my bedroom before I was old enough to drive. I remember that it really put out some crazy volume on them little speakers. Of course, that may have had something to do with the inherently quiet environment of a home vs. the noisy environment of a car.
I'm still pushing Pyramids in my 97 Ranger now. Two PB446 600 watt amps on two DVC IX Skar 10" subwoofers in a custom box and you'll hear me coming. A former friend of mine had this EQ and I always liked it and wondered how it work. Thank you for revealing what is really under the hood with all of the old electronics. Priceless.
A relic from the 90s considering todays standard. Great throw back. I miss my Crystal 4x6s, Audio Art amps, Alpine deck, and Lanzar Bass tube from 1995.
ER remember buying stuff at the San Jose Flea Market pyramid was the best bang for the buck at the time they have some nice stuff that works good for the budget when you couldn't afford high-end stuff
The V pattern! I used to have a Pioneer in the 90s with the 'Powerful' setting which was basically the V pattern on the EQ. It was the go to setting for cruising.
Back in the early 90s, my dad put an EQ booster in our station wagon. I don't know which brand it was. It didn't look this pretty, but it was a lot of fun.
My very first amplifier was a pyramid Gold series amp, it was rated 200 w or 280 I don't remember, the amp would get so hot you couldn't touch it, but it never shut off
I had the radio shack version of this, pretty much the same thing, back in early 1990's. It sounded pretty good for the time. EQ was needed to compensate for the low quality factory speakers, and the little extra power helped too.
Brings me back to 1994. My old 76 coup de Ville was running my Pyrimid tape deck with separate bass and treble. In the rear deck were a pair of Pioneer DUAL CONE 6x9's. In the trunk was my Pyle 12 inch woofer. All this powered by the cream of the crop (no sarcasm here) Rockford Fosgate Punch 45. That amo was so goodit pulled the best out of all the poop components.
I was just a wee little baby when the car audio and electronics August 1995 edition came out I was born march 15 of 1995 so that magazine/book is as old as I am I guess that shows why I love older car audio electronics even the stuff considered junk, or overrated I love it all!
Pyramid is a brand I haven't heard in a lot of years! I only saw them sold at flea markets, their head units looked pretty weak, but their EQ's didn't seem bad, and they had working ones on display. i bought an earlier version of this in my '79 Audi backing a Sunkyong cassette unit with AM stereo, and it worked fine for what I wanted. I was never one of those "loud bass is all that matters!" people. Hey, it was fun to play with a looked good! I had no complaints! I haven't even thought of car audio in years, and in my stuff I have an original Pioneer cassette/FM unit from the early 70's, a new in box Bowman AM/FM small frame in dash unit VW dealers used to sell. I also have a late 60's underdash cassette deck I took from a 67 Vette I was restoring. Now I have to wonder if there's any value to this stuff.
I had a few Pyramid decks and EQ's all pretty damn good for swap meet products. My favorite was a small gold face EQ with red LED lights approximately 3. 1/2" wide.
I used to buy and sell these new and used had several places I would get them from New and Reese after selling them. Sometimes you would get them back not a complaint but they needed money. I really enjoyed that part of my life got really heavy into Car Audio I know things people don’t, good memories
I got a couple pyramid like this but with the surround sound mode. Got 4 nib sherwood x-dts80 bolby surround processors. And 3 alpine 4042 and 4 6042 and a 701. and 7 sony made in japan xlpod amps Love my old stuff. Wish i would kept all other stuff we had but i troll the sites getting more
Great episode Derek!!!... Hell yeah I rocked pyramid gold series amps in the late 80s. They never gave me any troubles to be honest. I really wanted that pyramid goose neck EQ... it was not cheap, for a pyramid. Like around $250 iirc.
I had a very fun pyramid EQ under the dash in my 74 beetle it was the late 90s also had a pioneer tape deck with music search the EQ was speaker level input going to some 6.50s JBL in the doors some pioneer 6/9s in boxes sitting as arm rest on the back seat an power acoustic 500 watt amp in the front all carpeted all nice in the trunk at front of corse going to 1 12 in lightning audio in a 4th order box behind the back seat it sound amazing to me back then
I had a blaupunkt unit similar to this. I do not recall it having the bouncing lights, though. It was one of those that claimed a level of power but only if lightning struck it. But it WAS a step up from the power from the head unit.
I had a Pyramid 300 watt 2 chanel power booster with bass and treble control. It sounded pretty damn good on those Pyramid Super Pro 10s in my 88 single cab s10. I later swapped it for a Boss AVA 300M
Early 90s had two pyramid 15s and a pyramid surfboard. The 15s were translucent and I had lights in the box that would dim when the bass hit. Opened up the surfboard amp for something and the board only took up 1/4 of the inside. Poor school kids had to make due!!!
……THAT, was actually fun to watch. I had a very dear friend who used to enjoy shocking folks by installing big megawatt amps in tiny Geo Metros, and Daihatsu Charades scaring the beejesus out of folks! It was harmless fun, but it was truly hilarious also. I challenged him on building a sealed, three driver sub using shallow mount drivers, and the only mandated caveat was that it HAD to have one 12, one 10, and one 8 inch driver, and the mad scientist actually pulled it off! It of course wasn’t world-class deep at all (36Hz) but those disco-beat demos floored everyone, and he had a successful 15 month side hustle run of 26 of those cabinets which I thought was pretty good.🌹
….those little underdogs were gutsy little things! I lost him to Corona in 2021, sadly, and I plan on building me one in his honor in assembling a modest system.
LOL, I had a Gold Series PB600 amplifier pushing 4 Blaupunkt 8's on the rear deck and 2 Pyle 15's behind the backseat in an IB installation. It all got solen out my 1981 Honda Civic Sedan with no alarm system.
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That thing is awesome! Super cool! That would look great with teamed up with an alpine (i believe) head unit with those same soft green colored buttons.
Still got a set of the Pyramid SuperBlue subs 2 600watt 8ohm subs and 1 700 watt 4 ohm superblue they are 250-300 watts rms. But hearing 2 10's in a big sealed box in highschool got me more into car audio those 10's superblues sounded real good in a hatchback focus surprised me how they sounded. Also traded the purple gold series pyramid 1200 watt amp 2 12's 700 watt Super Blues for some 13's la wire knockoff lowrider rims
Not bad. Never liked that equalizer. Always had Alpine. The best. Car audio flawless. Back in the day. Great video. Everything is made in china. They do have good products.
I always wondered about the prymiad amps of this generation. They were huge and had handles on the ends. And sayed prymiad gold series in giant font across the top. Would love to see one tested.
This reminds me of a powered eq I had in a 1979 Camaro I had in high school. It was a Sound Barrier Commander V and I had 6 speakers hooked up to it. Back then it sounded great. Has always enjoy your videos.
To really rate these relics, they should be paired with some quality units like Lear Jet or Craig 8 tracks dumping into some Kraco 6x9's wedged into the rear seats of a 66 Impala.
I still have a few old Pyramid amps and eg/amps from the late 80s early 90s. They werent the best but they were affordabe. I have a couple of those old school Jensen amp/eq too, those were smaller, cheaper, and maybe had a little more kick. But they liked to blow caps if pushed to hard. We all love some Alpine, if nothing else, just for bragging rights. Lol
yeah I would use it in a late 80's car I did at some point have a duel pyramid amplifier setup and I've never seen one since it was all a/b but it had a mono amp and a 4 channel amp I thought it was pretty cool the mono amp had power wires and the 4 channel amp had Spade connectors but they were double up on power remote and ground so you hook up the mono amp I literally dug both out of a yard I never got the mono amp to work but the 4 channel work fine after a good cleaning maybe it was something i was doing wrong but the mud was caked up in them bad it had a full on relay in it and when it clicked on it pop the fuse I don't know what happened to them i may have left them in my old apartment or something would love to see that setup again working
I had the Clarion Eq amp booster that came in #2 back in the early 90's, On a Kenwood cassette deck.. Cd's were out then but they weren't really that popular yet, The deck was 25 watts rms X 4 and when I put in the EQ It sounded like it doubled the output power, In my 79 Trans Am with two Pioneer 6 x 9 3ways on the back deck and I think 6.5 2 ways in the doors. I don't know if testing the output off the eq's themselves is really the best way to test these, as they are really meant to boost the already amplified line level signal from the head unit, You will probably see better results if you dyno a head unit first, then add the EQ to see how much it can boost that,, I wish they made this nowadays, The closest thing I have seen lately is the line level DSP box power amps, Which is probably the way to go if you are just using a head unit as an amplifier and want a little more clarity and punch..
1995/6 Pyramid SE776G Equalizer/Amplifier
7-Band Graphic Equalizer with Four Channel Amplifier "Booster"
Computerized Digital Spectrum Display
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Man!!! Loved every second of this video! I loved Pyramid back in the day. Loved their LED spectrum analyzer displays so much. I remember getting my dad to bring me to the local flea market as much as he could on Saturdays, so I could look at the new pyramid brand items that they had for sale. I love looking at the cool woofers, the tweeters, the amplifiers, and the spectrum analyzer equalizers from pyramid! It just brings so much joy to my heart to see these things again! For the little bit of money I had as a young teenager, Pyramid was where it was at for me!
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I had PYRAMID 5 CHANNEL running four 6x9's and two 10"'s😂😊
Put it up against the Alpine now 🤣
A smiling equalizer is a happy equalizer!
V pattern 4 life
The good Ole loudness curve!
There has to be warehouses full of Pyramid and other flea market type audio NIB somewhere. There was so much of the stuff it couldn't have all gotten sold.
Yes probably next to spatula City 30 miles away
Be cool to stumble upon that
I miss the old car audio days, it was fun!!!
Back in 1994 my first car was a 1984 300ZX. I put together a system for around $300 that consisted of a 10” MTX band pass box which I upgraded with Marathon subs, three low wattage Coustic Power Logic amps, one for subs and the other two for mids/highs, 4 factory full range 5 1/2” for mids, a set of cheap Pioneer dome tweeters from Walmart, an Optimus single disc player, and finally a Pyramid electronic crossover that a buddy of mine gave me. That crossover brought that system to the next level and people couldn’t believe it was just two 10”s. The best memories of those days was everyone gathering around each other’s car to check out what you had inside. And it was all about seeing how loud you could get while maintaining SQ. Fun times.
No these were Coustic and it was the Power Logic line. Decent amps for the price. I’ve heard of Power Acoustic, totally different brand.
im left wondering how one would get 2 10's in a box , 3 amps, tweeters and a CD player in 1994 for $300.
Back in the 80's Pyramid was barely flea-market fodder. But we all bought some of their stuff when we couldn't afford Pyle, Blaupunckt or Kraco! We used to get things like Pyramid power Boster-EQ's and counter-fit Pioneer speakers (looked like Pioneer...didn't sound like Pioneer) at the San Jose Flea Market. Problem was they never lasted very long! LOL
Back in the mid 90s I had a gold colored "200 watt" 4 channel Pyramid powered eq and a 2 channel Pyramid amp (I think it was 2x500 but I'm not sure), bridged, powering my single MTX Eliminator 12. It was my first system. I got them brand new at a flea market outside of Chicago. I loved it at the time. My car was an '85 Mercury Cougar (with the 5.0L V8 😎). It definitely bumped.... That sure does bring back a lot of great memories!!
Ballin on a budget in the 90s, I had a full Pyramid system that actually bumped! 😄
they had some decent stuff
I had 2 12 inch pyramid super blue in a bandpass with the plexi window and 2 aero ports on each side. On a pyramid super blue 2800watt (purple surfboard amp) I now know wasn't close to 2800 watts but man that shit was beatin! Everyone could not believe how good it sounded. I did have it on an eq which helped a lot.
I had a buddy in high school with 2 blue thunder 12's and all pyramid amps speakers and it was overly impressive for a 90's system and respectable if he were here bumpin 2day... r.i.p. Mike.
@@wal2 they did, but you had to learn their line really well and maybe tear down a few items to discern the hidden gems from the utter crap (the vast majority of their product lineup was crap or utter crap)
These are the kind of videos I like to see. I love to see the not so popular brands that do good. You can spend less money and still have good results. Always loved the look of the pyramid super pro subs with red surround , never had any though , dont know if they were good or not . great video . Thanks
I have great fun memories of my pyramid EQ in the early 80s. They might not have been the best but it's what I could afford.
I kinda miss those translucent faced cassette decks. Reminds me of the 'Swatch' watches.
I just found this channel!!!!! I knew a guy in the 90’s with a ford festiva walled up with 6 pyramid 12’s on 6 pyramid amps. Was an epic setup.
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Those pyramid eq’s were so baller back in the day. I remember hooking up some big ol’ house speakers to them.
Ran many flea market brands in 80s,most pyramid was actually pretty decent ,any old schoolers remember proton? I had a passive eq,it was freaking amazing
We all remember Proton on Big D's channel. He tested one of their 80's home amps and was blown away! Proton was some good sh*t!
Yes I remember proton had 2 of there amps ,one small tweeter amp fit under the dash,an one bigger amp mono block for subs .seemed to be great quality .
It's crazy how nice those buttons still glow.
Absolutely! This must have been a true NIB find. display was perfect looking, buttons perfect looking, and you could tell those caps haven't seen hardly any, *if* any, voltage.
ah man all I could afford was the Roadmaster! and Jenson stuff!
I love equalizers. Believe it or not I've had a rockwood XR-064 7 band passive equalizer for over 25 years and it still works flawlessly! I love the up and down sliders as opposed to knobs.
Back in the early to mid 90s an EQ booster like that would have been welcome in a budget build for mids & highs or even a full range system if you didn't care about bass. Pyramid likely wouldn't have gotten such a rotten reputation if they had advertised even semi-accurate wattage ratings on their gear.
15x4 watts today is barely head unit power but back in the early to mid 90s it was respectable as many stock head units only output 2-5 watts per channel and even a lot of aftermarket ones only did about 10 watts per channel. Plus you got the EQ to do your V pattern!
I remember in 1991 my parents bought a Plymouth minivan that had a "premium" Infinity cassette audio system, it was a $600-800 add-on over the price of the stock audio system. That system only had a total of 80 watts RMS, 27x2 in the rear and 13x2 in the front. It had an separate amp unit that was located near the foot area of the passenger front seat. I remember teenage me looking into trying to hack into the system to install a powered Bazooka Tube that I wanted to tuck under or next to the middle bench seat. But my dad forbid me from doing so. Ahh those were the days!
The chip specs say 30W/channel at 10% THD. 10%, not 1%. So yeah, had you ran a test up to 10% you'd likely get 30 watts, or at least the advertised 25 instead of 14, but it would sound horrendous. Regardless, that's a pretty cool EQ and would be a worthy upgrade for anyone looking to power some aftermarket speakers as that's enough power to set fire to a set of 80s or 90s era OEM speakers.
The uncertified test goes to clipping which is beyond 10% THD
I had the loudest car stereo at my high school. Everyone else had the big money... I had a 1967 Galaxie so I had a big trunk. (2) 15" Pyramid Super Pro's in a 7 cu ft sealed box. They were the high end super pros with American flag dust cover. 120 oz magnets and 2.5 vc's, 102db/1w (looked alot like a peavey) .
Impressive specs for 1995. Ran them with a 2ft long Rockwood surfboard amp. $600 in the whole setup and no one could come close. Craziest thing is if you know 65-67 Galaxies. That box was above the rear-end under the package tray and I still had more trunk than most cars could dream of...
maybe you caught this one? ruclips.net/video/7PUmyc3uAhQ/видео.html
@@wal2 that's my exact amp! Still have it in the basement. It started popping fuses after years of hard use but it still looked like new so I couldn't toss it. Mine is plain silver but same amp. Same specs. Same cheesy disco graphics. Good find sir!
That reminds me of my set-up. Cheap as all hell but it sounded great. I really think that RockWood amp is not too bad, especially considering price (mine being something like 60 W X 4 for $100 give or take). Plus, I think it was the specially designed box that I made that helped for my two 15" Annihilator subs in something like a 10 cu ft ported box. I did not have that large of trunk (I had a harchback), though, so that custom box claimed ALL the space. You gotta have priorities, right? The "system"' comes fist! I still can't match the sound that I had with that box. Such deep bass extension and with clarity. It would not POUND where you can hear it for miles, but accuracy was simply stunning. Eventually it got stolen :(
Blast from the past!!! I remember seeing these at the flea market back in the day!. Late in the 90s i ended up getting a Rockwood 7 band eq with a claimed 300 watts for my first car 😂 😂😂
I'm actually pretty shocked how descent that Pyramid EQ is. I was a teen in the 90s and even back then i knew Pyramid was a sub-par brand, but we all bought it cause it bumped and it was cheap 😂
Backbin the 90s a friend of mine did car audio competitions. He got a local store to sponsor them. They gave him a couple Pyramid Super Blue 12s. Those things hit hard as hell. He kept braking windows in his car.
Did he break them by throwing spark plugs at them?
More thoughts: Pyramid were PERFECTLY capable of producing excellent products, so there was no need to lie on their budget items with bogus "peak" wattage numbers. What did "Peak" mean anyway - the power output it can muster for 1/20,000th of a second before the rails collapse? The power rating the amp might have gotten in an alternate universe where the laws of physics are different from ours? Ratings determined by a tarot card reading or seance? The bet the PM placed on a horse with the bookie the night before? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They should have rated these 15, 30, etc. watt amps honestly, and let the legacy, super pro and better super blue and other decent amp ratings speak for themselves. I really think they cannibalized their own sales by rating the cramp amps with fictional ratings matching their higher-quality amplifiers actual output, and they did often overstate power output on even their high quality items.
I wonder if any former Pyramid folks follow this channel - it'd be interesting to get their take on how Pyramid rated and positioned their products (and also how they made these decisions internally).
I ran two 12" pioneer impp subs off a legacy 300 amp back in the day and it sounded great for a first system build. The first legacy series of amps weren't bad at all. Ordered it from a mcm electronics catalog
I installed a ton of pyromid. Flee market companies would roll into town advertizing it. They would get a full system for less than a Hunskie, come to our shop and have us install it. Half the time the equipment was DOA right out the box. FUUUNN Times
I had the model under this one hooked up to a 12 volt power supply from an old IBM PC running a pair of 20 watt JVC boom box speakers in my bedroom before I was old enough to drive. I remember that it really put out some crazy volume on them little speakers. Of course, that may have had something to do with the inherently quiet environment of a home vs. the noisy environment of a car.
JC Whitney would be proud!
Oh my i loved jc whitney
I'm still pushing Pyramids in my 97 Ranger now. Two PB446 600 watt amps on two DVC IX Skar 10" subwoofers in a custom box and you'll hear me coming.
A former friend of mine had this EQ and I always liked it and wondered how it work. Thank you for revealing what is really under the hood with all of the old electronics. Priceless.
Chinesesium was underground in the 90s the big 3 got away with murder in the 90s audio charging so much
@@allmotorhash It was so far out of my league and the amperage draw is also; now. lol
I am old and cheap to the core.
A relic from the 90s considering todays standard. Great throw back. I miss my Crystal 4x6s, Audio Art amps, Alpine deck, and Lanzar Bass tube from 1995.
I ran a pbsp2300 amp….it was badass and I believe it was actually a PPI design….very clean sonically and had a better heatsink
The v pattern eq adjustment is the best
ER remember buying stuff at the San Jose Flea Market pyramid was the best bang for the buck at the time they have some nice stuff that works good for the budget when you couldn't afford high-end stuff
Blasphemy! jk.
I put Pyramid stickers on my car to keep thieves away.
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Great strategy, I should put Skar stickers on my car today, should have same effect.
I love Pyramid equalizers!!! I've got the mo. Se 705 led and the se808. Still working in my suburban and Tahoe. 😊😊😊
Awesome retro machine! Even back then Pyramid lied about the power output . Lol
I miss those cool old school light displays.
Man I loved every minute of this! All 13 watts per channel of it! 😂 Love to see that gear from yesteryear.
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The V pattern! I used to have a Pioneer in the 90s with the 'Powerful' setting which was basically the V pattern on the EQ. It was the go to setting for cruising.
Back in the early 90s, my dad put an EQ booster in our station wagon. I don't know which brand it was. It didn't look this pretty, but it was a lot of fun.
My very first amplifier was a pyramid Gold series amp, it was rated 200 w or 280 I don't remember, the amp would get so hot you couldn't touch it, but it never shut off
I had the radio shack version of this, pretty much the same thing, back in early 1990's. It sounded pretty good for the time. EQ was needed to compensate for the low quality factory speakers, and the little extra power helped too.
Brings me back to 1994. My old 76 coup de Ville was running my Pyrimid tape deck with separate bass and treble. In the rear deck were a pair of Pioneer DUAL CONE 6x9's. In the trunk was my Pyle 12 inch woofer. All this powered by the cream of the crop (no sarcasm here) Rockford Fosgate Punch 45. That amo was so goodit pulled the best out of all the poop components.
I loved Pyramid growing up...the subs were awesome in huge ported boxes haha
in my circle, friends didnt let friends run pyramid stuff....or ride yamahas 🤷♂
Oh man, when I rode dirt bikes Suzuki's were the junk. We wanted Honda or Yamaha
@@wal2 lol....we were honda cr and xr, kawasaki kx.....one guy had a suzuki rm, but he wasnt around much, he brought up the rear
I was just a wee little baby when the car audio and electronics August 1995 edition came out I was born march 15 of 1995 so that magazine/book is as old as I am I guess that shows why I love older car audio electronics even the stuff considered junk, or overrated I love it all!
Had the Kenwood passive eq around 96-97 one of my favorite pieces of equipment ever.
Pyramid is a brand I haven't heard in a lot of years! I only saw them sold at flea markets, their head units looked pretty weak, but their EQ's didn't seem bad, and they had working ones on display. i bought an earlier version of this in my '79 Audi backing a Sunkyong cassette unit with AM stereo, and it worked fine for what I wanted. I was never one of those "loud bass is all that matters!" people. Hey, it was fun to play with a looked good! I had no complaints! I haven't even thought of car audio in years, and in my stuff I have an original Pioneer cassette/FM unit from the early 70's, a new in box Bowman AM/FM small frame in dash unit VW dealers used to sell. I also have a late 60's underdash cassette deck I took from a 67 Vette I was restoring. Now I have to wonder if there's any value to this stuff.
That's a top tier spectrum analyzer by automobile standards! Love it great video big D
I had a few Pyramid decks and EQ's all pretty damn good for swap meet products. My favorite was a small gold face EQ with red LED lights approximately 3. 1/2" wide.
Haven’t seen that in a minute. It was fun BigD. Long time no see. Love to see any Soundstream recapped and ready for the dyno.
I used to buy and sell these new and used had several places I would get them from New and Reese after selling them. Sometimes you would get them back not a complaint but they needed money. I really enjoyed that part of my life got really heavy into Car Audio I know things people don’t, good memories
There's an Car Audio shop in Houston Texas that still have Pyramid available in stock- WOW 👌....
I loved Pyramid back in the day- this is made for people who first start into Car Audio or you just want an simple upgrade.
I got a couple pyramid like this but with the surround sound mode. Got 4 nib sherwood x-dts80 bolby surround processors. And 3 alpine 4042 and 4 6042 and a 701. and 7 sony made in japan xlpod amps
Love my old stuff. Wish i would kept all other stuff we had but i troll the sites getting more
That actually looks fantastic, and sounded fairly decent. Surprising, I know, but it is what it is.
The led lights have a quicker response Compared to other eqs. Keep in mind 15 watts in a 20 sq ‘ area , can be enough for average listeners.
And yet again you're showing some more amazing old school products. Thanks
Loved the 90’s stuff they all had some type of cool light show or design
I really like the look of this combo EQ/Booster.
"Down the road, you'll be glad it's a Kraco." :)
Nice💪 I had a pair of 15” Pyramid phase III subwoofers and Savard back in the day. Great video as always 💪
Great episode Derek!!!... Hell yeah I rocked pyramid gold series amps in the late 80s. They never gave me any troubles to be honest. I really wanted that pyramid goose neck EQ... it was not cheap, for a pyramid. Like around $250 iirc.
I had a very fun pyramid EQ under the dash in my 74 beetle it was the late 90s also had a pioneer tape deck with music search the EQ was speaker level input going to some 6.50s JBL in the doors some pioneer 6/9s in boxes sitting as arm rest on the back seat an power acoustic 500 watt amp in the front all carpeted all nice in the trunk at front of corse going to 1 12 in lightning audio in a 4th order box behind the back seat it sound amazing to me back then
When i was a teenager all this stuff was new and nearby a huge stereo shop that had all the off brands in stock
All my 3 pyramid amps all had problems. All were used. But the pyramid subs inside your house sounded great.
I had a blaupunkt unit similar to this. I do not recall it having the bouncing lights, though. It was one of those that claimed a level of power but only if lightning struck it. But it WAS a step up from the power from the head unit.
I had a Pyramid 300 watt 2 chanel power booster with bass and treble control. It sounded pretty damn good on those Pyramid Super Pro 10s in my 88 single cab s10. I later swapped it for a Boss AVA 300M
Many people bought them at flea markets and I hooked up quite a few. They sounded pretty good at the time but they were just basic power requirements
Really enjoyed the video, I had one of this EQ back the the day.
Early 90s had two pyramid 15s and a pyramid surfboard. The 15s were translucent and I had lights in the box that would dim when the bass hit. Opened up the surfboard amp for something and the board only took up 1/4 of the inside. Poor school kids had to make due!!!
Awesome video got a pair it with a modern EQ and see how it holds up
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……THAT, was actually fun to watch. I had a very dear friend who used to enjoy shocking folks by installing big megawatt amps in tiny Geo Metros, and Daihatsu Charades scaring the beejesus out of folks! It was harmless fun, but it was truly hilarious also. I challenged him on building a sealed, three driver sub using shallow mount drivers, and the only mandated caveat was that it HAD to have one 12, one 10, and one 8 inch driver, and the mad scientist actually pulled it off! It of course wasn’t world-class deep at all (36Hz) but those disco-beat demos floored everyone, and he had a successful 15 month side hustle run of 26 of those cabinets which I thought was pretty good.🌹
….those little underdogs were gutsy little things! I lost him to Corona in 2021, sadly, and I plan on building me one in his honor in assembling a modest system.
LOL, I had a Gold Series PB600 amplifier pushing 4 Blaupunkt 8's on the rear deck and 2 Pyle 15's behind the backseat in an IB installation. It all got solen out my 1981 Honda Civic Sedan with no alarm system.
! These Equalizer Boosters Make the Best Computer speaker Amplifiers. You can even use some 6*9's and get that full Rich sound that Logitech Desktop speakers just cannot Do!
I think this is a shining example of how efficient those Elac speakers are.
They are really amazing speakers and when they are on sale they are an incredible value
What most people did with Pyramid EQ was to take the speaker output and hook it up to an Amp for better sound
That thing is awesome!
Super cool! That would look great with teamed up with an alpine (i believe) head unit with those same soft green colored buttons.
oh yeah!
And I still want one 😅. I would do an old-school build just for it. 👍
Still got a set of the Pyramid SuperBlue subs 2 600watt 8ohm subs and 1 700 watt 4 ohm superblue they are 250-300 watts rms. But hearing 2 10's in a big sealed box in highschool got me more into car audio those 10's superblues sounded real good in a hatchback focus surprised me how they sounded. Also traded the purple gold series pyramid 1200 watt amp 2 12's 700 watt Super Blues for some 13's la wire knockoff lowrider rims
I had an Audiovox Eq on my coaxials all the way around 93-95 lol 😆 it was pretty decent 👌
Not bad. Never liked that equalizer. Always had Alpine. The best. Car audio flawless.
Back in the day. Great video. Everything is made in china. They do have good products.
I might have that clarion eq in a box somewhere, I'll try to find it
I always wondered about the prymiad amps of this generation. They were huge and had handles on the ends. And sayed prymiad gold series in giant font across the top. Would love to see one tested.
Been watching you from the start brother this is exactly what id be doin if i had the resources love from Wisconsin
I remember these in the flea market back in the day
This reminds me of a powered eq I had in a 1979 Camaro I had in high school. It was a Sound Barrier Commander V and I had 6 speakers hooked up to it. Back then it sounded great. Has always enjoy your videos.
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To really rate these relics, they should be paired with some quality units like Lear Jet or Craig 8 tracks dumping into some Kraco 6x9's wedged into the rear seats of a 66 Impala.
I still have a few old Pyramid amps and eg/amps from the late 80s early 90s. They werent the best but they were affordabe. I have a couple of those old school Jensen amp/eq too, those were smaller, cheaper, and maybe had a little more kick. But they liked to blow caps if pushed to hard. We all love some Alpine, if nothing else, just for bragging rights. Lol
Good sound. Thanks.
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yeah I would use it in a late 80's car
I did at some point have a duel pyramid amplifier setup and I've never seen one since it was all a/b but it had a mono amp and a 4 channel amp I thought it was pretty cool the mono amp had power wires and the 4 channel amp had Spade connectors but they were double up on power remote and ground so you hook up the mono amp I literally dug both out of a yard I never got the mono amp to work but the 4 channel work fine after a good cleaning maybe it was something i was doing wrong but the mud was caked up in them bad it had a full on relay in it and when it clicked on it pop the fuse I don't know what happened to them i may have left them in my old apartment or something would love to see that setup again working
12 minutes of pure awesomeness!
Could you tell I was having fun?
I’d live to see the Sanyo 100 watt brick from back in the mid 80’s
I had the Clarion Eq amp booster that came in #2 back in the early 90's, On a Kenwood cassette deck.. Cd's were out then but they weren't really that popular yet, The deck was 25 watts rms X 4 and when I put in the EQ It sounded like it doubled the output power, In my 79 Trans Am with two Pioneer 6 x 9 3ways on the back deck and I think 6.5 2 ways in the doors. I don't know if testing the output off the eq's themselves is really the best way to test these, as they are really meant to boost the already amplified line level signal from the head unit, You will probably see better results if you dyno a head unit first, then add the EQ to see how much it can boost that,, I wish they made this nowadays, The closest thing I have seen lately is the line level DSP box power amps, Which is probably the way to go if you are just using a head unit as an amplifier and want a little more clarity and punch..
Man I used to like those powered equalizers, wanted to build a home/garage system with one.
should work pretty good for that
THOUGHT I WAS DOING SOMETHING WITH SPARKMATIC 6X9'S
Holy moly!! I had the same eq!!!!! Lol
I could not afford the Clarion
I'm laughing because I used to be one of those v pattern guys!
Wow just wow! Also can you talk about that HU. Pioneer from circa 1993?
I like these videos. Those displays are cool.
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Pyramid wasn't the best back in the day, but it wasn't bad either. They had some good products for the price.
Big D in my opinion back in the late 80s and early 90s jet sound had the best sounding EQ if you ever come across that One make a video please
Thanks for the suggestion!!