I ran this amp on 2 12" pioneer in a box I built. Sealed box in a 86 Mazda B series truck. No massive bang but no one ever complained about my set up. It was awesome for what $$ I had in it
Ha,ha! My cousin had one of these when we were younger and we still laugh when we hear the name "Thump" to this day. There was another knockoff company that knocked off the design and the name of Rockford. The name was "Rockwood" and they made amps that looked like the bat wing Rockford's from the late 90's. Also on a side note: Be careful with those HF fuses. I bought that kit years ago and had issues with them melting. Well,I went there to buy something one day and seen a notice that they were recalled. Got reimbursed twice the amount 👍
I had that thump amp, I ordered it out of a low rider magazine. I purchased this amp before I had a car. My cousin sold me a pair of mix match fosgate 15s...you couldn't tell me nothing...lol. Thanks for the memories, this put a smile on my face.
I believe I had this exact amp back in '94. And it did run hot! It would go into protect quite a bit. I had a band-pass MTX Road Thunder II 10" subs and box on it. I thought it sounded pretty good at the time!
I have this amp next to a m44. I get a kick out of it. I have it Running my Hertz hx300d, and It does alot with 140 watts, I would have said 200 watts at least. Like that dude said "Maybe it's small but, it's mean!"
I haven't seen Thump! in AGES! What happened to them and their other brand Mobile Authority? I bought a 8" Thump! subwoofer at a flea market after their website went "toes" up. it was a nice little woofer, with the yellow cone and all, But my first introduction to mobile audio was that loaded Mobile Authority enclosure with 2 12" subwoofers that had the tweeters and blue "neon" rings that would stay lit or pulse to the beat of the music. on a creepy aside, I was JUST looking the website up on the wayback machine (today, like an hour ago. Google is creepy...)and it brought back a lot of fond memories. Thank you for being able to find one of their products and for testing it out.
I think alot of people would love to see more amps like this. I mean come on. We all had a flea market amp bumping the trunk at one time. And what a blast to see what we really had!!! Great video.
This amp actually works well if you know its limits. I found this hidden in my garage recently and found out it was from my uncle from the 90s. Hooked it up in my dad's van with an 8 inch and a ported box I built and it actually bumps. you can hear my dad's van from a couple blocks away. Not bad for a "cheap/knockoff" amp if I'd say so myself.
Ahhhh nostalgia at its finest!! Ole Thump! I think we all had a thump at one time at the beginning of our car audio journey. I would like to get one if there higher power amps and run it on a system just to surprise people and for laughs!
Three kinds of bass! Man does that bring back memories of shaking pencils off of desks rolling around school in the mornings....didn’t everyone show up late just so they could thump around the building? Haha!
Not a comment on the amp but a comment on the magic eraser: they are AWESOME on everything. Used with a small amount of water on vinyl seats and theyll look brand new. They do erase so they leave eraser behind so vacuum last
Dude man you and exo have gotten me back into audio. I bought a resilient sounds gold 10 and I got a cadence fxa 2500.1d coming. Hopefully they will be a good combo. Will be putting in more!! Thank you guys!
Saw one of these online recently, and thought it was a cheaper clone but wasn't sure. Thanks for posting it. If older amplifier (home, car, or marine) gets too hot during light/idle usage or heavier usage (even with a board/case fan) the thermal paste is probably shot. Much like overclocking a cpu or gpu on air, which can kill fresh paste in under a year, running an amp in a hot trunk, amp with inherently high bias, poor chip design, tiny heatsink or cramped heatsink filled with a ton of chips, or eventually just age, etc., can cause the paste to dry/crack and lose heat transfer efficiency over time. Since these older amps (cheap or high-end) are often put through grueling usage in short time frames (home amp might see 5% rated for daily usage with minor near-limit usage in climate controlled room; car amp is probably at/near clipping in 100+ degree trunk for extended periods) keeping fresh paste on them can at least keep them healthy in the years to come. Since parts, service manuals, etc. are already hard, if not impossible to come by, keeping your older amp in the best possible shape should be a goal. You wouldn't want to DD a 25 year old car with 1990's oil still in it. PSA, do NOT use paste that conducts electricity.
I could have happily lived out the rest of my days without any flea market flashbacks, thanks BigD. You know that amp ran 2 super blue 12's in a bandpass box and cracked their windshield 🤣
I had one of these almost 20 years ago when I didn't know any better. Bought it second-hand. I couldn't tell you the model but mine didn't have the "subwoofer" switch. I ran it bridged into a pair of Kappa Perfect 10s and it sounded just fine to me. One thing I loved is that it had no subsonic filter, so when I was playing weird D'n'B and other electronic music, I could watch the sub go down to sub-hz wobbles. Inaudible but it sure looked cool. I never ran out of power with it, but it did run very, very hot, enough to trip the protection on hot days, so I added some fans and a custom shroud. To its credit, I pounded the crap out of that turd for 5-6 years before junking the car. Not bad for $50.
My best friend who is no longer with us...had ordered in 1995 through a wholesale warehouse audio catalog a dark blue carpet wide dual 12 mobile authority thump truck subwoofer box and it had a set of about 2 inches square Motorola branded piezoelectric tweeters called super tweets on the corners of the box at the top, and it wasn't a bad setup but too many pink Floyd and Master p songs hard hitting popped the voice coil loose in the right sub, and the subs were upgraded to JL audio w3 V1 single coil 12's sounded awesome and it was in a regular cab short bed 2wd 89 dodge Dakota sport 3.8 electronic choke tbi V6 and a odd option for most sport Dakota trucks other than it was not a 4wd but a automatic transmission without the overdrive button
I remember when I was 13 I bought 18 8" Thump subs for $5ea at a car stereo shop. I ended making 2 sub towers with 9 subs in each tower wire series/parallel for my HiFi system I was building. I didn't know Thump brand had amps
It would be interesting to see a GAS amplifier, GAS is a Swedish brand that focuses on budget systems with high quality. I like their products but it would be interesting to see a review of some of their products. Would be hard to ship however... :) Liked the video!
I still have a brand new thump 1000watt 12" sub in the box. Thump was the base model series for the parent company (Annaba group) who also own mobile authority, ma audio, audiobahna and some others....😎
I had the really small 125watt Thump amp way back in the day! It was running two 10” Audio Authority subs, in a ported MTX full rang box. All that was hooked to a Rampage head unit, AM/FM CD player. It ejected the discs like a old cassette deck would. It worked off of a spring loaded system lol! It actually slammed pretty good! Oh and the radio dialed in the stations like and old dial radio would but the display was digital!
Oh my! I remember Thump. I had 6 Thump T1200 12's that hit pretty hard with low power in an 2001 r/t Stratus. I blew up the engine at 60k miles and got a new one for 80 bucks under warranty. Damn I can't believe that was nearly 20 years ago. :( I love this old stuff. It reminds me when broke and trying whatever we could do for more boom. BTW: I blew every one of those darn T1200's lol.
Like to see a test on this good old school amp. Profile California. I used 4 of these back in the day. They worked good. The company didn't produce a lot before they went bankrupt.
I had the 600sx blue amp with the long red led. It was a great amp for the money! I knew it wasnt getting 600 rms bridged. More like 450 maybe but it was definitely worth the money.
The Profile brand was a staple in the old JC Whitney catalogs! Their amps were of much better quality than their subs, though. I had to solder my connections on the sub terminals a few times back in the day!
Never had thump amplifier but had 4 10 inch thump subs, 160oz double stacked magnets, bright yellow surrounding...that's what got me into car audio...thanks big D!
Thump was some of the absolute first stuff I ran back in the day with some Super Blues. Couldn't even legally drive yet but my dad let me save up and put a small system in his car which later became mine. Wow! I thought I was loud back then. Good times. LOL!
I love Google play music because it has every single old school bass album ever made and I can download them since there's no cell service where I drive.
I installed these Amps for a local retailer back in the day. They sold the Thump with MTX blue thunder 10s (if I remember correct) in a pre fab box. YUK! Not much bump whit lots a heat. :)
I have a pair of Thump Pro PTH-82 8 inch speakers185 watts.One blown.Came in a used truck/wedge box.Faded red/orange cone, black dust cap and dark red basket.Had them since 2000 or so.Just sittin around.
I think Donald Thump endorsed these. “You misspelled my name on the amp.” “Who cares?” “Tremendous.” Remember the Sony Xplode/Legacy amp fraud-a-thon? Literally used the same exterior. Also for your vid intro, you need the “turn it up to 11” scene. Epic!
Just a heads up, Mr Clean Magic Eraser is just melamine foam. It works like ultra fine sandpaper. So I wouldn't use it on glossy surfaces that you care about.
You know I can remember back in the day "1995 or 1996" I had two JBL 10" dvc's running off a Jensen XA1120, which was wired to 2 ohms stereo and it actually sounded pretty good. I can also remember buying a set of Thump subs in highschool to use for woodshop, we had to build something so I built a cheap bandpass with them in it. It was funny because the teacher had supplied wood from a cabinet factory that had veneer applied to it "the school got loads of it donated", he made me build the entire thing so that all the seams were hidden and made me stain it and apply clear varnish on it. I laughed at the idea of a car sub box being finished so nicely back then and here we are today and it is a style! I only built it to pass the class, I later tossed it in the trash, but back then, I think it was 1994 Thump subs were for sale in the back of Mini-trucking for like $15 each "Which was why I bought them" and they were made in Compton, California or at least that is what the sticker on the back plate said! I do believe that these Thump amps were also available from jc whitney back then, since most of the equipment they sold in the mid 1990's was all flea market quality!
It's interesting to see a 1hz wobble with the actual Bass frequency but it's the camera itself doing the wobble. At least this imposter did not do too bad at all compared to that Kingshit amplifier. lol
Ahh reminds me of the good old days....which of course is why i watch yer channel. I remember seeing these in parts express back when p.e. was in its infancy...i ordered many subs from them back in there catalog days in very early 90s...like 91. Lotta pyrimid stuff...an despite wut a bad rep pyrimid had...sum of ther stuff was actually really gud....the many variations of ther super pro subs were outstanding drivers.sum modeled from pro sound drivers....cast baskets etc. And i had a very small amp of theres that happily ran mono at 2 ohms driving rockford 12s....pounded. Anyways thanks for more vintage coolness. I personally love seeing old school subs doing excursion...hint hint lol
@@wal yeah...they had the subs too. Bunch of the profile stuff too amps n subs. I remember sum cheapy m.a. stuff too. Cant remember if they had urban but might have.
Not a thump but a fun fact, back in the day a friend had a 10" full range Crunch box with 2 Pyramid PB-300's bridged running it and it did pretty good! We had some budget stuff in high school!
Haha. My first setup was a pair of Pyle 18's laying in the backseat floorboard on a Pyramid 300 watt amp. All that running out of my sweet Sparkomatic tape deck and a Jenson 5 band eq I think. lmao.
Wow that's actually the very first amp I ever bought lol! I did buy it at the swap meet along with two 12 inch Titans which at the time me being in high school I thought it sounded badass 😂
I got 2 of the TGA914 Thump Gold amps with the purple heat sinks. Bridged each one to a 15 inch Hifonics Olympian series 2. Sounded good in my old regal. Then upgraded to a Hifonics GenX Boltar at 1ohm. No comparison
This video makes me so happy to be living in the age we do. Back then 170 bucks which was like close to 300 bucks got you 40wpc in 4ohms today our dollar gives you much more
@@envisionelectronics oh I thought he said 170 in the book. Even at 80 bucks in the early 90s was closer to double that todays money. Min wage was 4 something maybe 5 bucks an hour. What I said in my other comment still is fact.
I used one Thump Amp Back In the Early 90s and didn't keep it a week LOL... I Have A Really Old Fultron Tidal Wave TXB 200 Two Channel Amp And I Got It In The Mid 90s And Kept It Ever Since But It Is A Surprising Amp On A Couple Of 12s In A Sealed Enclosure and it is Heavy as Can Be, it Reminds Me Of The old school PPI Amps. I also Try To Buy Every Punch, PPI, kicker, Autotek Mean Machine, Phoenix Gold, linear power, sound stream, and now zapco amps that I can find in Yardsales to consignment Shops and wherever they are the cheapest and doesn't matter if they are like new or just parts Machines
So I've got an old school Crunch DS-4000 rated at 1600W mono 4 ohm , (600x2 @2ohm) I opened it up and it looks pretty sparse, like this thump. I'd love to dyno test it
Dude wow I’ve some good music in my day and no words can say what the Phoenix gold M series amplifiers brought to the table I had the M 50 and an M 100 those amps at the time I had running with kicker solo Barricks the original first series and they were 18 inch woofers the bass was incredible.
My first amp was a Phoenix gold 600 watts it was pushing to old school 15in crunch..i actually got my first ticket forbumping hard in a residential area lol
I remember having another knockoff of that amp many years ago. It was called Diplomat in the same size as the M25. (Have not found anything about it online) it had a crusty chipamp with about 15W per channel and a nearly empty circuit board, haha. It was just as good as anyone would think it was.
Entry level in my area was either Pyramid Gold or the next step up, Sherwood. Beyond that you had to pay a few more dollar's to get Coustic. Literally never saw a Thump amp until around 2000.
I can laugh at it now, but there was a time when I was first starting out, that I would have been glad to have that Thump 2000 amp. The struggle was real.
I'd like to see if the performance could be improved if the caps were changed to nichicon or hitachi. Surely fresh electrolytics would improve performance - especially an AMP built in 1997 with inexpensive components.
My brother bought one of those new in either ‘96 or ‘96! Target was the name of the store he bought it from 😂 Being how cheap he was, it was likely a sub $100 purchase for him to buy it !
I’ve got a question it is completely off the subject of your video I have been reading up on how people strap two of amps to one subwoofer I understand if you have two amps that are made to do that but I am wondering if I have a dual voice coil subwoofer do I have to strap amps or can I run two separate amps to each side of the sub without connecting the amps at all
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Williston Audio Labs can you do some on KICKER L7 subs and kicker amps please
hey man, for curiosity's sake what's the source on the uhmmm hardhat? intro clip
@FATHER'S OF BASS the video hasn't been completed yet, sorry. It may be several weeks. Teasin' like a boss
I have an old fultron competition 6 channel I'd like to see how it performs if your interested
Williston Audio Labs Will you please dyno a Rockford Fosgate Punch P250.2 all loads plus a 2phm bridged test?I ran my amp at 2ohms mono.
I ran this amp on 2 12" pioneer in a box I built. Sealed box in a 86 Mazda B series truck. No massive bang but no one ever complained about my set up. It was awesome for what $$ I had in it
Omg! I can't believe you found one of these! This really brings me back in the day. I had a old thump 5 channel and it was huge.
Ha,ha! My cousin had one of these when we were younger and we still laugh when we hear the name "Thump" to this day. There was another knockoff company that knocked off the design and the name of Rockford. The name was "Rockwood" and they made amps that looked like the bat wing Rockford's from the late 90's. Also on a side note: Be careful with those HF fuses. I bought that kit years ago and had issues with them melting. Well,I went there to buy something one day and seen a notice that they were recalled. Got reimbursed twice the amount 👍
I had that thump amp, I ordered it out of a low rider magazine. I purchased this amp before I had a car. My cousin sold me a pair of mix match fosgate 15s...you couldn't tell me nothing...lol. Thanks for the memories, this put a smile on my face.
Awesome brother!
Love the old flea market amps, I have a ton of thump subs sitting around! Great video buddy
I believe I had this exact amp back in '94. And it did run hot! It would go into protect quite a bit. I had a band-pass MTX Road Thunder II 10" subs and box on it. I thought it sounded pretty good at the time!
Back in 1995 I would have ran that amp and would have been proud haha.
I have this amp next to a m44. I get a kick out of it. I have it Running my Hertz hx300d, and It does alot with 140 watts, I would have said 200 watts at least. Like that dude said "Maybe it's small but, it's mean!"
I had the "800" watt version of this amp, pushing two '12 kicker comps, bridged at 4ohm. Used to flex the quarter panels on my 77 LTD 🤣
I haven't seen Thump! in AGES! What happened to them and their other brand Mobile Authority? I bought a 8" Thump! subwoofer at a flea market after their website went "toes" up. it was a nice little woofer, with the yellow cone and all, But my first introduction to mobile audio was that loaded Mobile Authority enclosure with 2 12" subwoofers that had the tweeters and blue "neon" rings that would stay lit or pulse to the beat of the music.
on a creepy aside, I was JUST looking the website up on the wayback machine (today, like an hour ago. Google is creepy...)and it brought back a lot of fond memories. Thank you for being able to find one of their products and for testing it out.
Mobile Authority switched it up and became MA Audio... they made some decent stuff and later went out of business
I think alot of people would love to see more amps like this. I mean come on. We all had a flea market amp bumping the trunk at one time. And what a blast to see what we really had!!! Great video.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll keep them coming 😝
This amp actually works well if you know its limits. I found this hidden in my garage recently and found out it was from my uncle from the 90s. Hooked it up in my dad's van with an 8 inch and a ported box I built and it actually bumps. you can hear my dad's van from a couple blocks away. Not bad for a "cheap/knockoff" amp if I'd say so myself.
Ahhhh nostalgia at its finest!! Ole Thump! I think we all had a thump at one time at the beginning of our car audio journey. I would like to get one if there higher power amps and run it on a system just to surprise people and for laughs!
Three kinds of bass! Man does that bring back memories of shaking pencils off of desks rolling around school in the mornings....didn’t everyone show up late just so they could thump around the building? Haha!
Not a comment on the amp but a comment on the magic eraser: they are AWESOME on everything. Used with a small amount of water on vinyl seats and theyll look brand new. They do erase so they leave eraser behind so vacuum last
Dude man you and exo have gotten me back into audio. I bought a resilient sounds gold 10 and I got a cadence fxa 2500.1d coming. Hopefully they will be a good combo. Will be putting in more!! Thank you guys!
Sweetness 👌
@@wal Very.. I missed the bass lmao..
Saw one of these online recently, and thought it was a cheaper clone but wasn't sure. Thanks for posting it.
If older amplifier (home, car, or marine) gets too hot during light/idle usage or heavier usage (even with a board/case fan) the thermal paste is probably shot. Much like overclocking a cpu or gpu on air, which can kill fresh paste in under a year, running an amp in a hot trunk, amp with inherently high bias, poor chip design, tiny heatsink or cramped heatsink filled with a ton of chips, or eventually just age, etc., can cause the paste to dry/crack and lose heat transfer efficiency over time. Since these older amps (cheap or high-end) are often put through grueling usage in short time frames (home amp might see 5% rated for daily usage with minor near-limit usage in climate controlled room; car amp is probably at/near clipping in 100+ degree trunk for extended periods) keeping fresh paste on them can at least keep them healthy in the years to come. Since parts, service manuals, etc. are already hard, if not impossible to come by, keeping your older amp in the best possible shape should be a goal. You wouldn't want to DD a 25 year old car with 1990's oil still in it. PSA, do NOT use paste that conducts electricity.
I would always see adds for Thump in the back of Lowrider magazine. 2 thump 10"s were my first set of woofers.
Yeah they advertised a lot in all of the magazines
I could have happily lived out the rest of my days without any flea market flashbacks, thanks BigD.
You know that amp ran 2 super blue 12's in a bandpass box and cracked their windshield 🤣
Super blues lol..
Is flexing that little sub pretty well nice
Not bad for hundy watts 👈😬
I had one of these almost 20 years ago when I didn't know any better. Bought it second-hand. I couldn't tell you the model but mine didn't have the "subwoofer" switch. I ran it bridged into a pair of Kappa Perfect 10s and it sounded just fine to me. One thing I loved is that it had no subsonic filter, so when I was playing weird D'n'B and other electronic music, I could watch the sub go down to sub-hz wobbles. Inaudible but it sure looked cool.
I never ran out of power with it, but it did run very, very hot, enough to trip the protection on hot days, so I added some fans and a custom shroud. To its credit, I pounded the crap out of that turd for 5-6 years before junking the car. Not bad for $50.
It’s awesome that all these songs you play I know by heart. So I can tell that little 6.5” is doing a great job! Thanks for the vid Big D!
Awe yeah 😎🤙
My best friend who is no longer with us...had ordered in 1995 through a wholesale warehouse audio catalog a dark blue carpet wide dual 12 mobile authority thump truck subwoofer box and it had a set of about 2 inches square Motorola branded piezoelectric tweeters called super tweets on the corners of the box at the top, and it wasn't a bad setup but too many pink Floyd and Master p songs hard hitting popped the voice coil loose in the right sub, and the subs were upgraded to JL audio w3 V1 single coil 12's sounded awesome and it was in a regular cab short bed 2wd 89 dodge Dakota sport 3.8 electronic choke tbi V6 and a odd option for most sport Dakota trucks other than it was not a 4wd but a automatic transmission without the overdrive button
I remember when I was 13 I bought 18 8" Thump subs for $5ea at a car stereo shop. I ended making 2 sub towers with 9 subs in each tower wire series/parallel for my HiFi system I was building. I didn't know Thump brand had amps
That's awesome. I had this same Thump amp in the mid 90s. Down in Louisiana it constantly would cut out for thermal overload.
👌😬👍
It would be interesting to see a GAS amplifier, GAS is a Swedish brand that focuses on budget systems with high quality. I like their products but it would be interesting to see a review of some of their products. Would be hard to ship however... :) Liked the video!
I used to have one of these Thump amps! Totally forgot about it till now.
I still have a brand new thump 1000watt 12" sub in the box. Thump was the base model series for the parent company (Annaba group) who also own mobile authority, ma audio, audiobahna and some others....😎
As an old 90’s audiophile, I ale look forward to your videos
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I like that sub enclosure
HiFiVega strikes again 😝
back when alpine and Sherwood were pounding hell outta some bumpers lol
I had the really small 125watt Thump amp way back in the day! It was running two 10” Audio Authority subs, in a ported MTX full rang box. All that was hooked to a Rampage head unit, AM/FM CD player. It ejected the discs like a old cassette deck would. It worked off of a spring loaded system lol! It actually slammed pretty good! Oh and the radio dialed in the stations like and old dial radio would but the display was digital!
Cool start, thanks for sharing 👌
Williston Audio Labs, anytime thx for running the channel I’ve been a sub for a while now!
I remember my cousin bought a pair of thump 12s,they were not so good for the car but sounded good in the house 👍 1998 was year old school
I bought that same amp back in the late 90s at a flea market, hooked it up to my hx2's and it caught fire . . . Soooooo no go
Oh my! I remember Thump. I had 6 Thump T1200 12's that hit pretty hard with low power in an 2001 r/t Stratus. I blew up the engine at 60k miles and got a new one for 80 bucks under warranty. Damn I can't believe that was nearly 20 years ago. :(
I love this old stuff. It reminds me when broke and trying whatever we could do for more boom. BTW: I blew every one of those darn T1200's lol.
We are getting old 👈😜
I hope you show us your flea market folding table with all these amps setup someday, LMAO
Like to see a test on this good old school amp. Profile California. I used 4 of these back in the day. They worked good. The company didn't produce a lot before they went bankrupt.
I remember them they were a very premier amplifier and when u seen them they were n very hi end builds but had some cool art work on there covers
I loved the long LED light bar!
I had the 600sx blue amp with the long red led. It was a great amp for the money! I knew it wasnt getting 600 rms bridged. More like 450 maybe but it was definitely worth the money.
I had the 600 mono amp. Ran it @ 2ohms never had any problems. Big D did a dyno on the 1200
The Profile brand was a staple in the old JC Whitney catalogs! Their amps were of much better quality than their subs, though. I had to solder my connections on the sub terminals a few times back in the day!
Never had thump amplifier but had 4 10 inch thump subs, 160oz double stacked magnets, bright yellow surrounding...that's what got me into car audio...thanks big D!
Remember those subs
Thump was some of the absolute first stuff I ran back in the day with some Super Blues. Couldn't even legally drive yet but my dad let me save up and put a small system in his car which later became mine. Wow! I thought I was loud back then. Good times. LOL!
Yeah, we all had to start somewhere
I love Google play music because it has every single old school bass album ever made and I can download them since there's no cell service where I drive.
I had a old thump! Amp back when i very first got into car audio and before i knew that manufacturers could be dishonest.
Hahaha brings back memories. I remember buying a pair of thump 12" subs from the flea market like 25 years ago.
I installed these Amps for a local retailer back in the day. They sold the Thump with MTX blue thunder 10s (if I remember correct) in a pre fab box. YUK!
Not much bump whit lots a heat. :)
I had one of these sounded good in my camero two 12 inch pioneers actually was really loud for a thump of course was a hatchback
My old neighbor back in the late 90's had this amp. He told me it was a new Phoenix Gold line of amps. Good times...
I had this in my nissan powering 2 15" subs... I thought I was so bad ass back in '97 with it thumping... Amazing how little power it put out.
I have a pair of Thump Pro PTH-82 8 inch speakers185 watts.One blown.Came in a used truck/wedge box.Faded red/orange cone, black dust cap and dark red basket.Had them since 2000 or so.Just sittin around.
I think Donald Thump endorsed these. “You misspelled my name on the amp.” “Who cares?” “Tremendous.” Remember the Sony Xplode/Legacy amp fraud-a-thon? Literally used the same exterior. Also for your vid intro, you need the “turn it up to 11” scene. Epic!
Just a heads up, Mr Clean Magic Eraser is just melamine foam. It works like ultra fine sandpaper. So I wouldn't use it on glossy surfaces that you care about.
Put some water on it and it’s like gently polishing out the age 😊
Thump that chump! It did get that 6.5 going tho...
That sub in that box you made is 👌
Old school amps I had one and they were pretty good for the money.. especially when I only paid $25 for it 😂
Yeah, $25 is fair fo sho
Me to bought it for $25 sold it for $50
Love your videos, amps I’ve never even heard of. Fun to watch
Thanks brother 👌
Hey Big D Wiz! That last track.. It took me back to my yellow "Dr. Crankinstein- SPL Competition Disk".
Good times!
You know I can remember back in the day "1995 or 1996" I had two JBL 10" dvc's running off a Jensen XA1120, which was wired to 2 ohms stereo and it actually sounded pretty good. I can also remember buying a set of Thump subs in highschool to use for woodshop, we had to build something so I built a cheap bandpass with them in it. It was funny because the teacher had supplied wood from a cabinet factory that had veneer applied to it "the school got loads of it donated", he made me build the entire thing so that all the seams were hidden and made me stain it and apply clear varnish on it.
I laughed at the idea of a car sub box being finished so nicely back then and here we are today and it is a style! I only built it to pass the class, I later tossed it in the trash, but back then, I think it was 1994 Thump subs were for sale in the back of Mini-trucking for like $15 each "Which was why I bought them" and they were made in Compton, California or at least that is what the sticker on the back plate said! I do believe that these Thump amps were also available from jc whitney back then, since most of the equipment they sold in the mid 1990's was all flea market quality!
Great story, thanks for sharing 🤙
Big D what would be your dream system? And do you own any of the equipment yet?
It's interesting to see a 1hz wobble with the actual Bass frequency but it's the camera itself doing the wobble.
At least this imposter did not do too bad at all compared to that Kingshit amplifier. lol
Ahh reminds me of the good old days....which of course is why i watch yer channel. I remember seeing these in parts express back when p.e. was in its infancy...i ordered many subs from them back in there catalog days in very early 90s...like 91. Lotta pyrimid stuff...an despite wut a bad rep pyrimid had...sum of ther stuff was actually really gud....the many variations of ther super pro subs were outstanding drivers.sum modeled from pro sound drivers....cast baskets etc. And i had a very small amp of theres that happily ran mono at 2 ohms driving rockford 12s....pounded. Anyways thanks for more vintage coolness. I personally love seeing old school subs doing excursion...hint hint lol
I don’t recall PE selling these, that’s awesome!
@@wal yeah...they had the subs too. Bunch of the profile stuff too amps n subs. I remember sum cheapy m.a. stuff too. Cant remember if they had urban but might have.
9:33 damn, that Zuki Audio amp is dimmin the lights! :)
Yeah! I tested a couple of them a few years ago. 100 watt amp does big powa!!
Hopefully it makes its ratings love your videos
Thanks brother 👌
Not a thump but a fun fact, back in the day a friend had a 10" full range Crunch box with 2 Pyramid PB-300's bridged running it and it did pretty good! We had some budget stuff in high school!
Haha. My first setup was a pair of Pyle 18's laying in the backseat floorboard on a Pyramid 300 watt amp. All that running out of my sweet Sparkomatic tape deck and a Jenson 5 band eq I think. lmao.
Wow that's actually the very first amp I ever bought lol! I did buy it at the swap meet along with two 12 inch Titans which at the time me being in high school I thought it sounded badass 😂
Good deal on that hike you speaker man is pounding this is very awesome video
reminds me of my gold plated FOLEX it keeps perfect time once a day. awesome video Big D.😎
I got 2 of the TGA914 Thump Gold amps with the purple heat sinks. Bridged each one to a 15 inch Hifonics Olympian series 2. Sounded good in my old regal. Then upgraded to a Hifonics GenX Boltar at 1ohm. No comparison
Any tests on Kicker ZX amps coming?
Thanks Big D I just saw one of those for sale cheap then checked ebay and the prices are insane so I was about to buy it
I remember those.
Had a low end flea shop type of audio seller. They carried thump, pyramid, etc the best they had was the crunch
My bro had (2) "Thump" 10" woofers in his hoopty Dodge Colt back in 1993, powered by a Craig amplifier.
Not the Craig mate 🤣
This video makes me so happy to be living in the age we do. Back then 170 bucks which was like close to 300 bucks got you 40wpc in 4ohms today our dollar gives you much more
Anthony Efx It sold for $79.95 everywhere.
Yeah crazy for sure!!
@@envisionelectronics oh I thought he said 170 in the book. Even at 80 bucks in the early 90s was closer to double that todays money. Min wage was 4 something maybe 5 bucks an hour. What I said in my other comment still is fact.
Thank you big D for testing that amp. Now I have some sought of idea how my 350X2 thump would perform. I'm guessing about 75x2 RMS
I used one Thump Amp Back In the Early 90s and didn't keep it a week LOL... I Have A Really Old Fultron Tidal Wave TXB 200 Two Channel Amp And I Got It In The Mid 90s And Kept It Ever Since But It Is A Surprising Amp On A Couple Of 12s In A Sealed Enclosure and it is Heavy as Can Be, it Reminds Me Of The old school PPI Amps. I also Try To Buy Every Punch, PPI, kicker, Autotek Mean Machine, Phoenix Gold, linear power, sound stream, and now zapco amps that I can find in Yardsales to consignment Shops and wherever they are the cheapest and doesn't matter if they are like new or just parts Machines
I remember all the powered Equalizers back in the 80’s early 90’s. Lol
This was my second amp back in early 1998. It was this one or the one larger.
So I've got an old school Crunch DS-4000 rated at 1600W mono 4 ohm , (600x2 @2ohm) I opened it up and it looks pretty sparse, like this thump. I'd love to dyno test it
cool! back in the late 90s my first amp was a thump, had it in my geo metro with one 10" cerwin vega sub, was decent for the money.
I loved the intro.
Dude wow I’ve some good music in my day and no words can say what the Phoenix gold M series amplifiers brought to the table I had the M 50 and an M 100 those amps at the time I had running with kicker solo Barricks the original first series and they were 18 inch woofers the bass was incredible.
My first amp was a Phoenix gold 600 watts it was pushing to old school 15in crunch..i actually got my first ticket forbumping hard in a residential area lol
Boom shocka locka
I remember having another knockoff of that amp many years ago. It was called Diplomat in the same size as the M25. (Have not found anything about it online) it had a crusty chipamp with about 15W per channel and a nearly empty circuit board, haha. It was just as good as anyone would think it was.
There are hundreds of flea market brands out there and most are vastly overrated
My homie just got one of these I can't wait to hook it up and play with it
Entry level in my area was either Pyramid Gold or the next step up, Sherwood. Beyond that you had to pay a few more dollar's to get Coustic.
Literally never saw a Thump amp until around 2000.
I had a couple of the “Pro thumps” 15’s but never got to see those amps.
I had a Phoenix Gold M44 back in 1994. Was a Great amp !!!!
Yeah boi!
My brother had a thump 8" sub with a purple surround. Back in like 96.
I can laugh at it now, but there was a time when I was first starting out, that I would have been glad to have that Thump 2000 amp. The struggle was real.
Back when I was younger I would hear the old guys say "you can't polish a turd" well I guess they were wrong. SMH!!!
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I’d like to see what the California design PPI performance Q series amplifiers really pull out for power
I'd like to see if the performance could be improved if the caps were changed to nichicon or hitachi. Surely fresh electrolytics would improve performance - especially an AMP built in 1997 with inexpensive components.
No - it will make no difference at all.
That Hi-Q sub looks like a nice daily sub,
Will i win competitions with these
Been a long time since I've seen an old thump they had Subs too
thump was my first subs pro thumps
My brother bought one of those new in either ‘96 or ‘96! Target was the name of the store he bought it from 😂
Being how cheap he was, it was likely a sub $100 purchase for him to buy it !
Do you still have the Thump amp? If so will you part with it. I ned it for my OG build and my Thump system. Thank you
That sub was really kicking!
Like a one legged man in an a$$ kicking competition 🤣
I had a thump amp, it actually put out decent power
great vid as usual love the old bass tracs check out ultimate bass tracks vol. 2 one of my favorites
I thought that thing fired up in protection just like you did, lol
I’ve got a question it is completely off the subject of your video I have been reading up on how people strap two of amps to one subwoofer I understand if you have two amps that are made to do that but I am wondering if I have a dual voice coil subwoofer do I have to strap amps or can I run two separate amps to each side of the sub without connecting the amps at all
Puff the magic dragon😱