I Can't Believe This Was a Flea Market Amp - Rockwood AMP-1245x
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2024
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Rockwood AMP-1245x 1000W Four Channel Amplifier
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Rockwood AMP-1245x 1000W Four Channel Amplifier
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Model No: D718.
Polarity/Channel Type: NPN.
Collector-base voltage Open emitter: 120V.
Collector-emitter voltage Open base: 120V.
Emitter-base voltage Open collector: 5V.
Collector current: 8A.
Base current: 0.8A.
Total power dissipation: 80W.
Recommended for 45~50W Audio Frequency
I lot off brands use this mosfets.
Even today you see them still be use.
Can you provide link to list of bass tracks you play 🎉
Sure would love to see a test of the 5 channel NVX NDA501 amplifier😊
Hey, can u tell me what is the best amp for me? I have 6 massive xl 122r 6000w max 12s
What do you have for sale?
Man, those graphics on the amp bring back some memories. That was pretty good performance for an old flea market amp. I was surprised. Great video, as always, Big D.
I was thinking the same thing. I definately remember that amp.
I love seeing these amps from when i was a teenager. Brings back fond memories of hooking up equipment and wondering if you were gonna have the best bump on the street! I've smoked many cheap amps in my day of trying to be the loudest, now I like sound quality over quantity.
Here in Chicago we have a store called Cooks Bros and they originally started selling these amps. I had every model available and I still have my 300 watt in blue and it still works really well. I had it pushing a set of pioneer 6x9 4 ways and push them it did very well, in my 1980 chevy Malibu. Everyone thought I had a sub in my car lol.
I had two white Rockwood 500x2’s each bridged running 2 Cerwin Vega 12’s in the back of an 1984 Rx7 back in the day. I thought it was fresh back then! Never blew up on me and I banged it for years!
"Never blew up on me..." Either she's on the pill, or it was a guy. Not that there's anything wrong with that ;-)
Man this Rockwood impressed me because it’s actually decent. But I’m also disappointed that it wasn’t complete junk. I’m so conflicted…
We’re gonna need to see a surfboard BOSS or Pyramid amp at this point.
Great Video, these are fun!
Maybe you missed this Pyramid from a few years ago - ruclips.net/video/1JWB8m4Y9aI/видео.html
@@wal Thank you for the heads up! That’s the amp cheese that I was craving!
PB300G!
That was almost 2x better than expected. I was going to be pretty happy if it pulled off 200x2 at 4 ohms and it did.
Crazy, right?
😒Thats what this video is about? Oh God 🤣
If you didn't spend at least a grand or more back in those days you didn't get an amp worth a dam.
I beg to differ. Many older amps to go with that were much better.
I disagree too, my LA sounds MALIBU 120 was throwing 2 12s. Hermosa throwing 4 12s then I found a lanzar 160 amp that bit bumped like a mofo and on 4 12s. It did get hot. And cut off but the point is cheap but LOUD. PPI ALSO HAD ME BUMPING
@@MrFinisher111 you didn't bump shit with that little bullshit.
Flea Market Amp reminded me of my Pyramid amps and Pyramid eq with all the moving lights. I thought I was doing better when I stepped up to a Sherwood. Good times back in the 80's.
I had Rockwood and Pyramid back in the day. Pushing Jensen 6x9s a 2 JLW0 10s lol
Friend of mine used to do competitions with a couple Pyramid Super Blue subs. They hit ridiculously hard.
Who?@@shadymaint1
I had this exact amp back in the day, pushing two 15” MTX Terminators with two horn tweeters and two sealed back midranges in each side. For what little I had in my system, it sounded really good. This was in a 1985 Honda Civic Hatchback.
Color me impressed with the old Rockwood, never expected it to do that!😳
Possibly the best Rockwood I've ever seen, for a Rockwood that is.
Thought about Rockwood when you were showing the sherwood. All them woods back in the day
Sherwood was also Urban Audio.
They all wanted to be like Ken. Lol
@@TheSFFVurban audio works / targa / and radion. Don’t think Sherwood was in that mix
@@DavidBrown-wm7zx Sherwood made Urban audio.
Holy CRAP I HAVE THIS AMP and it STILL works!!!
This amp reminded me of the old pyramid pb800 and pb1000 2 channel amps had the same side panel and heat sinks. I believe the.pyramid was red
Yessir!
I bought a Rockwood 8" sub to replace a blown sub in a friends bandpass box and it worked better than anticipated.
I had a friend with that amp in stereo to a matching rockwood box in an old celica supra.. I was good then
lol makes sense it wasn't doing 500 wpc
IIRC it was a Thump split wedge set 15" or 12"
I had a rockwood amp it literally had a small board that took up 1/4 of the heat sink this one looks actually pretty good 👍
Super fun. I had a white Profile California A1200 on 4 10" Blaupunkt in series parallel in the mid 90s that beat the brakes off a Kicker sponsored car with 3 round Seeolobarics unfortunately.
I ran that same amp with quad JL 12W4's. It was a fun amp! :D
@@KoryTaylor Things were more musical back then. I don't get down with this SPL thing. I still have 90s and early 2000s stuff I keep telling myself I'm going to use.
I have a Profile amp coming up in a future video either here or over on the Old School Stereo channel
Yeah I had one of those too... big long white powder coated one with the red LED strip. It never gave me any troubles.
@@MuvoTX Precisely. Couldn't keep up with a PPI Art Series but it did the job.
Very cool Derek... Yeah this one is surprising, Rockwood was the bottom feeder brand of all the flea market products. Surprised it did that much bridged, also surprised the heatsink is mostly filled up with PC board.
I had the white 150x2 version with 2 kicker mohawk 12s. My first real amp. After i blew this. Lanzar opti 100. Thanks Big D!
I wouldnt rock a wood but i do remember seeing these back in the day. Who knew i thought it was complete junk but im actually kinda impressed also.
Had one of those on 2 crunch 10" 😂😂😂😂
The OG crunch? Or after the sellout. If it was og stuff we're not bad stuff.
@@bobdodge3171 1993 bro.
@@bobdodge3171 maybe 94 or 95 lol it's kinda a blur now
Nice review- clean look- great review!!!
Thanks as always!!!
I think I've said this before, but my best friend's first vehicle was a 1983 or 84 S-10 with a 2.8 5 speed and he put a power inverter in it, I gave him an OLD Technics amp/tuner, he hooked it into his stereo, and he bought a set of 6.5" woofers from Big Top Flea Market in Tampa and hooked it up. It didn't slam, or even really bump in any way, but it was clean sound. That was back in maybe 1998 or so. Then in 1999 I bought a 1994 Eddie Bauer Explorer and I put two JL Audio 15s in it, a pair of chrome Kenwood 600 watt amps, a Sony Xplod tape deck, and a Sony 10-disc CD changer. I miss that truck. I jacked it up 6" and put 33x12.50s on it with chrome bullethole wheels, chrome full step bars, and a full chrome front bull-bar. I also swapped the 4.0L V6 for a 302W V8 with an Explorer Express supercharger kit and that truck was a beast! It also had BBK shorty headers, a full 3" dual exhaust back to 58" Dynomax glasspack mufflers, and I had it tuned. It made 308 whp on a stock 302W from a F-150 that I got out of the local U-Pull-It for $150.
Man bringing me way back to the 90’s I remember them Rockwood brand amps good video 👍🏻
🟪I think you've got a soft-spot for all purple amps!🟪
Who doesnt? That fresh 90s look is "tha bomb"
@@GoldenCroc 🟪Urban Audio🟪 agrees! Big D has a bunch more in the channel I never heard of, too.
Around 1999 I tried hooking up a Rockwood to 24v to get more power, I unleashed the magic smoke.
That's awesome big D you pulled my mind to back in the day when I Rocked one and I still have a Rockwood amp 1000 superclean ❤
That was super cool! I remember seeing those back in the day
Almost 800 watts burst bridged at 2ohm / 14 volts? Man, I wouldn't even be mad having a 1000W MAX with those numbers! Surely an elite flea market special. Almost 70 % efficiency at 4 ohms sounds like a damn good number?
This such a cool amp!! The look is great! I may be a little weird but I do love the color they went with on this model. Old tech still work is always cool as well! Fun video!!
I was actually impressed. Never thought a rockwood would get close to its rated power. 😂
omg. I have one of these I picked up on the side of the road. It rocks and hits hard with 2 old school KICKER 12’ subs.
That's a cool amp! Looks good inside.
My 1st amp was a rockwood. Yes I bought it at a flea market. Its was 100x2. I had it on my Jensen 6x9s. I didn’t have any subs but I consider this my first Soundsystem. I later put my house speakers in my trunk. 1996.
Awesome! I was lucky enough to get 2 beautiful amps from that stash of old school as well!
great job man, what a find!
Thank you verry much for showing transistors model,you da best! greetings
Awesome video, Elac still going strong 💪🏼
I had this exact amp back when I was into this, bought it from the back of a van. It was great value for the day and much cheaper than other brands.
So you've actually experienced that old meme of buying audio components from the back of a van? I thought that was an urban legend. Lol
@@JasonWW2000 it was for real, small town Kansas for you.
Very cool! I remember some of those old crappy brands at flea markets, pyramid was one.
Had the Rockwood 1200watt,, hooked to 2 x12" x 1500watt speakers, it did bumped 😅 on the 1997-99
Most people dont know that rockwood is the skar of its day. I had a keenwood kac 4042 baby eq, and i also had the rockwood 80 baby eq. They were the same. The rockwood didnt have the lights on the sliders and you couldn't change the colors from green to orange, but it did have a aux input that the kenwood didnt have
Back in the 90s, I had a 4 channel version rated at 60 watts. I always wondered how it performed. I saw that max power rating and thought it was overrated but as long as it bumped, I did not care. It did very well on the system I had at a very good price (don't remember the price). It eventually got stolen along with my Earthquake Annihilator subs.
I had some rockwood 15"s for a while. They actually seemed ok for a budget sub. 3" voice coil and decent motor size.
Rockwood was a trans amp before there was a thing!! They didn’t know if they were Rockford or Kenwood, so they were both! 😂
Ha, they tried to fool the people
Impressive 💯%. Thanks, Big D🤙
I HAD THIS AMP. It was awesome. I had it running two kicker gold letter 12s in my 1985 Toyota supra. It sounded great. I got it blown up and replaced the output transistors and gate resistors. If I remember correctly they have Irfz 44 transistors. Lol.
These videos should never stop.
I have more over on my 2nd channel - www.youtube.com/@wal2
I had this amp in the white finish. This thing rocked. I think I paid $100 used. I ran 2 MTX road thunder 12" boxes at the same time. 2 boxes. 4 subs. And it never blew.
My 1980 grand Marque had a huge trunk.
That was way better than I expected . I thought maybe 100 watts . This has to be that one demo amp they sent out lol
Man how time flies I used to love those Rockwood unic majestic amps back in the early 90's.... Cheap amps they did the job though
Very cool!
I use to have 2 Rockwood 600 hooked up to my mids and highs sound great. I have a question I still have my 2 JBC from 1999 they are 4ch amps not sure what the output of them are have you ever done a dyno on them? I had the on 8 10" subs could not bridge them due to protect mode comes on every time. Couldn't even run the under 4 ohm I am planning on using them as mids and highs amps.
Ever heard of an amp called Hott Setup back in the day? It was not exactly cheap. Some even say it was made by Orion, and was a top-notch amp. But I had their top-of-the-line 2.125. And although rated at 2x125W, I wasn’t impressed - the Punch 60DSM I replaced it with was FAR stronger. I would LOVE to see how THAT amp would fare on the amp dyno.
I'm impressed.
I remember the red one I had was pretty strong. I was happy to see that I didn't imagine it.
Rockwood made subs with purple surrounds too back in the day, would be cool to get a couple 15s to run off this amp
What a beauty 🤩
I remember the red rockwood detonator amps at the local flea market. Never owned one or knew anyone who did though
That was one of my first amps from canal st . Had it in white and the second one was blue on 4 - 10 inch Pyle pro 1070 and 2- 15 Pyle pro 1570 behind the seat and it was loud .
Love the hell out of this channel!! I have a question on midbass woofers in the front doors.
Is it better mount them infinite baffle style into the whole door or build an actual enclosure into the door? Thanks!
I need to dig out my power accoustik 1000w amp I bought from Bali back in the late 90's as it claims the same output but in a smaller case so curious to see if the internals are similar.
I worked electronic/stereo retail in the early 90's, fun times.
I had a White one like that in '92-'93 with 2 15 in Rockwood Subs in a Datsun B210 sedan.
Also, noticed my Crunch V-600 up on the self in that first picture with all the gear, blue side box with silver around,, silver Amp.. still have mine in pristine condition in the box! Hasn't been used in over a decade. Edit, the one in the pic seems to be a V-200 .. but same line.
Great show Big D. Have you ever dynoed the same amp using different gauge speaker leads? I noticed that you used 18 gauge speaker leads
I figured it was going to be a big boat anchor! It actually has some power!
remember them old rockwood cassette decks with the woodgrain plastic and the remote that was just too big
Sweet amplifier Derrick.
I remember Rockwood from back in the day. Never ran any of thier stuff though.
Not going to lie, it put out more than double what I thought lol
Oh God! Swapmeet amps! Its the only ones I could afford back in the day in California!
Try and get that ultra linear on the bottom of the rack at the shop. I still have one of their subs from back in the day. and love it.
I'm impressed especially for the price.
Kac-1020 Kenwood was around 300 at 2ohms if i remember correctly.
Not to mention much more expensive
Iv got a kenwood excelon slide amp from the 90s thats super neat, any kenwoods in your collection?
That amp looks like it was made in the same factory as the MA/Mobile Authoriry early amps. Kraco also had a series of amps using a similar heatsink.
Our go to car audio place was in Staten Island New York called clone audio. They closed around 1990 or so but they installed the benzie box on my radio back in the day. What's your experience with those. But then again you'd have to be at least early to mid-50s to be old enough to drive and use a benzi box
Pretty impressive.
Nice 👊
Always wanted that amp wean I was 16 lol ty for showing
Hi I have just subscribed to your channel and just love it. Very interesting content. Have you done any reviews on Sound Town Plate amps. I am trying to build a budget backyard sound system and wanted to use plate amps that also play satellite speakers. I was looking at Sound Town STPA21-710. All info is welcomed.Gerard.
I wonder if anyone still has one of those Sherwood dual fan amps from back in the day 🤔that would be one ol’school amp to see dynoed;) but good show on this one!!!
I remember these at the swap meets. I never bought one as they looked really cheap and light. I recall they had a few that were like 4 feet long.
Nice 👍
Was an installer in late 80s till 2000 love these videos. Have you done a old power EQ
I've done a few, here's one - ruclips.net/video/0fQnxpWpXVE/видео.html
😮 REMEMBER THEM AMPS IN HIGH SCHOOL
I had one of these in the mid 90's but mine was anodized a different color (red/burgundy iirc? maybe even pinkish?). But yea it definitely a huge Rockwoqod amp and I had it on 2 Rockford Fosgate 10's in a bandpass box. lmao!
Big D try to get a old pioneer gm-722 or the gm-922 i used to run these at 1ohm bridged always wounder what the output was on them. They never let me down . I just swapped them out for after awhile for all Rockford Fosgate A-series amps 250 a-2's and a couple BD-1000's on hx-2 d4's 12's.
You could probably still order that amp through JC Whitney. That's where I used to see that stuff all the time.
I found a Special Edition in my old amp collection this week. It was the poors mans Precision Power.
Wow! Go Rockwood
Really like that “OSS Slow Tempo” track. When are we going to get to see the music production studio?
I made that one in GarageBand like 10yrs ago 😝
Great videos. PA stuff please.
i had a rockwood 2 channel amp back in the early 90's i remember thinking this is some junk but it turned out to be a decent lil amp.
Thanks.
Guts remind me of my first amplifier a Pyramid 800 watt 4 channel. I was running four 15" very first generation MTX Terminators. I replaced it with a single Punch 75 and it sounded much better and hit a little harder. When i went to two punch 75s on low end and that pyramid on my mids and highs i thought i was the shit. This was about 1989 to 1990. I was expelled from school for my stereo and i never played it on school property after i got my first warning, just coming and going. They despised me lol
Wish I could find some of these old school amps to buy
Dope