I ran 4 of these with 12 Atomic Thunder "Aftershock" 15" svc and achieved a 167.7 certified spl. We were running them at 16v with 3- 3ohm voice coils per amplifier in an extreme 1985 gmc safari. The Mark I 200dhc and the Nexus Lion were identical. Bob upgraded the mark ii (output fets I believe) and changed some thing small for the phd2 (Shredder). Power output was nearly identical for all 4 amplifiers leading me to believe that all upgrades were to mitigate failure from low voltage. Great power from a relitively small footprint in a time when 2400 watt amplifiers were taking up seriously real estate.
These are the amps I drooled over back in high school in the early 2000’s. Thanks to big d wiz for the great videos. And also thanks Jason Neal that gave you this amp to test.
There is also a switch on the board that disables the subsonic filter and allows lower frequency notes, may want to test with that enabled and disabled, for comparison.
I helped run the dB Drags in South Florida that year (Circuit City was a sponsor/host). I vaguely remember the car running an Earthquake amp (same car was at a few of the dates), because our only dealer in WPB at the time was an indoor flea market shop. He sent us a lot of his customers for installs.
Dang! 2500 watts from that thing @ 1 ohm! I wasn't expecting that after the rest of the tests. Thanks for the video Big D. I enjoyed it, as always. Looking forward to the next one!
Earthquake has great stuff, not too much on their amps of today, but their subs are top notch and have more xmax than any sub in their price range. 2 dbxi 12s with around 1500 watts will meet or beat your expectations on what 2 12s should sound like.
A friend of mine had an earthquake setup in a mustang back around 1991 and it was amazing, it was the loudest I had heard at the time. I didn't hear louder until another friend put 4 15" Savard Rap running off a (Zed) Crunch 250 in little Mazda B2200 truck in 1994. I ended up with the amp but I gave it to my brother who got me into car audio, he still has it and it's the jewel of his collection.
I have an old 400tx supposedly made in 1996. I bought it as a parts and repair for like $60 and I did recap it but the issue was the TL594 which caused it to go into protect, the fets were all fine I did upgrade the power supply fets to a little better ones. I also didn't have a 594 to replace it with but after looking at the datasheets for it and the tl494 I used one of those because I had quite a few extras. It is also like 10 lbs earthquake didn't skip on the high-quality aluminum in those days!
Don't have an amp but running an earthquake Sub-Zero 10 powered an Orion XTR 1500.1( watching an amp Dyno on it sold me 👍) @2OHMS and it slams for a 10 has very clean sound and seems very well built for its age, people always question the earthquake brand until they hear it. 😁
@@wal They made really good stuff when they were in san Mateo. They sold the company and moved to Hayward and the quality went way down hill. This amp in the video was known to make a lot of power but they weren't very reliable.
2k out of the earthquake, wow! I ran the earlier models and they had a lill grunt. But when they went to that series I stopped as I thought they didnt sound as clean. Glad to see it survive the 1ohm certified test. Thanks D.
Big D, another awesome amp test. Love your videos. Look forward to seeing them in my alerts.. Did anyone else notice how similar the Power House colors & logo are almost exact to Rockford Fosgate's logo at the time? Peace.
I ran (3) PH-D5000 at 1 ohm for several years in my hearse on (12) Memphis 15" HPO subs. Earthquake support highly recommended that I run them at 1 ohm saying that is the impedance that they really performed best at. No lie there. Never had an issue during the 7 year run with them.
Never been a big fan of EarthQuakes amps (usually kind of unimpressive) but there subs have always been where they shone. The HoLee S line and Subzero lines where and still are made in the states (sub zero using some foreign parts) and the low profile front hung SWS line are some real preformers. Even there cheaper on lines aren't half bad for what they are.
Used to have one. Even got the upgrade in person at there location. Wish I’d kept it, but wife and kids 🤷🏼♂️. Stick with the audio pit and save tons $$$
I ran two of the Earthquake PHD2 amps on four Earthquake Magma 12's back in the day. I still have the amps and picked up two more for an Old School Build.
I still have a 12in Magma in a 2.5 ported box. I've been using for over 20 years. Never had any problems with it, and it still gets stupid loud! It's the original version that Earthquake made, with duel 3ohm voice coils. And even 20 years later it's stiil a beast.
Back in 2008 I had a PH5000 D2 green amp and it was 2ohm stable 3kRMS 99% efficiency and Made in the USA 🇺🇸 But it would keep beating the block up while other amps would be heating up! Mine stayed cool that I thought my fan was broken lol
I was just about to say the lousy results may have been due to leaky/bad caps but you already covered that! So it's just an amp that doesn't do rated output and what it does output is kinda dirty. That's a shame. Thanks for the test!!!
i had a similar looking Earthquake 2 ch amp. i think rated at 700w rms bridged. had it on 3 jl 10w3v1 and it sounded awesome.i don't know about output numbers but it was a good sounding , dynamic amp!
I was once using 2007 yr model alpine 500 watt mono amp with a 10” earthquake sub duel voice coil in 2 ohms load never had a problem with it. Still have it but now I’m using the newer alpine R series duel coil sub with mono block Alpine amp 900 watts RMS. Good enough for me. YA BOI
Hey wiz, where do you send the amps to get repaired? I have an old school alphasonik pma2500 class ab with tiffany rca does over 1600rms at 4 ohms and has the hour meter on it. It was wired to wrong ohms by my brother and stopped working. I'm willing to repair it or even just donate it to you if you would make a video on it. Thanks. I uploaded the guts of it many years ago on the smd forum and it's still there to see if you want to.
Hey man love watching your Amp Dyno videos. Could you possibly do a Dyno run on an Earthquake Sound Mini d2500.1 v2. I'm a huge fan of Earthquake but can't find much in its actual power rating. Your help would be much appreciated.
Earthquake is still manufactured here in the Bay Area in Hayward. One shop in San Mateo is owned by a guy who is 70 years old and he pretty much only sells Earthquake.
I’m still trying to dig out my oldschool Lanzar 500 and 240. These had the old Hollywood 30’s style dont. These were built I think in the same factory down near Chatsworth where autotek and HiFonics were made. I’d like to see how they do if I can find them. I saved them cause they were in great condition and had the original boxes.
The original Lanzar were made by Zed Audio (yes, same as the old Rodek, Hifonics, ESX, Autotek, Crunch 50, etc. etc.). They should make close to rated power, they will not make more "dynamic" power and they won't benefit from high voltage in since they are regulated power supply. Also the Zed amps typically do not like running below rated impedance. Some years ago you could actually buy refurbs off the Lanzar website for super cheap and I had a bunch of them at one point. The good ones say "Made in USA" on them, later versions were far east manufactured but the same design, later Lanzar has been very hit or miss with mostly junk and a few good ones.
Hey Big D i got an old Mtx Thunder series 942 i bought new it just smoked the other day i wont name drop but it was a lansare quality sub could u tell me where u have ur amps sent off for repair possibly?
@Dave Micolichek amp is really sentimental to me does d have u fix em or do u have a page or something so i can check ur work no offense i just dont want to get ripped off the stuff in the water these days be making people do crazy s#$@!
That’s beefy for an older amp. I still miss the days where subs all pretty much looked alike amps look alike and most ran sealed enclosure or BANDPASSES so you couldn’t hear the distortion right before you blew the subs or Woofers I should say by comparison to what’s out now. But we appreciated what we had and we were happy. Been a while since I heard a sub in a sealed box about a year ago with my AP 3000.1 and a pair of Kove Armageddon U2 18’s a pair. Makes me want to go sealed with my solo X subs but I like when I hit that 18-28 Hz note.
I'm still up for offering my repair services dude, seeing as how everything has gone postal now! Haha... And of course, you'd get it back! I got sooooo close to winning an old American amp with needle type VU meters just because of you! xD I did get a surprisingly good Sony (of all companies, i mostly hate Sony!) amp that has LED VU meters though, it was running on my living room wall driving my monitor speakers for a couple of weeks! That always gets funny looks lol just finished repairing a few home amps i acquired cheap (Rotel RA-820BX and RA-840B! Plus an RA-611 i had lying around for a while, finally got to fixing the preamp and setting the idling currents for all of 'em!)
Would have loved to do the repair for you though! Thing is "upgrading" the value of caps isn't always a good idea.. In this case it'll likely help as that thing is designed to be overloaded, it seems! Reminds me of Rotel, everything is usually under-rated and understated lol they are very good at doing "wire with gain" amps.. I believe Rotel/Roland/Rank is also Boss Audio, explains why i like a couple of amps of theirs i have and repaired!
When that amp came out, it literally shredded speakers , and fast. We only sold ground zero nuclear subs just to handle that kind of power when running 2 zubs.
Hey BIG D, the Orion Blue Book showed this amp rated 1300X1 and on your dyno at 2ohms it was 1378, so my guess is someone that was in charge of the advertising screwed up on the specs or something. OBB had it rite and the magazine had it rite. So weird rite LoL Anyways, keep up the good work brother. Love the videos
Me too i have two of them (maybe an older revision judging from the look of amps) and the unfortunate thing is, they have significant difference in power :/
Nice , probably made 30 % more on a 16 volt system which would charge at 18 volts or more , this is how we use to make power , high voltage and load the amp down !!!
My cousin worked at a stereo shop and gave me a killer deal on 2 of these when they first came out. I put one in my 88 Hyundai Excel and it stopped working and I ended throwing the other one in to replace it. My cousin had told me it had probably blown the internal fuse so I held on to it and was going to check and switch it out. Well it ended up in storage and I just found it and decided to open it up and see if the fuse blew and the 30amp blade fuse is still good but I notice one of the same caps in the middle is loose one of the wires popped. Where could I send this to get re-capped and what would it cost me roughly?
Hey Wiz, Back in 2000 or so Shaq had a SUV tricked out with an Earthquake system. I want to think it was featured in Car Audio Mag. The install had like 9 15” Magma subs in a big hexagon enclosure, if memory serves me right I believe they were powered by bunch of the PHD2 amps. The truck was Superman themed? Someone chime in if I got this half way right. I’m getting old! 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤪🥊
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That power house logo and lettering resembles Rockford fosgate
I was thinking the same thing
Shoot I thought the same thing!
I think they did that to troll Fosgate
Now days that would be a lawsuit
Thats what I was thinking too !
I ran 4 of these with 12 Atomic Thunder "Aftershock" 15" svc and achieved a 167.7 certified spl. We were running them at 16v with 3- 3ohm voice coils per amplifier in an extreme 1985 gmc safari. The Mark I 200dhc and the Nexus Lion were identical. Bob upgraded the mark ii (output fets I believe) and changed some thing small for the phd2 (Shredder). Power output was nearly identical for all 4 amplifiers leading me to believe that all upgrades were to mitigate failure from low voltage. Great power from a relitively small footprint in a time when 2400 watt amplifiers were taking up seriously real estate.
These are the amps I drooled over back in high school in the early 2000’s.
Thanks to big d wiz for the great videos.
And also thanks Jason Neal that gave you this amp to test.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
There is also a switch on the board that disables the subsonic filter and allows lower frequency notes, may want to test with that enabled and disabled, for comparison.
Love the old Earthquake stuff it takes me back to my 20’s....thank you
Sweet!
I helped run the dB Drags in South Florida that year (Circuit City was a sponsor/host). I vaguely remember the car running an Earthquake amp (same car was at a few of the dates), because our only dealer in WPB at the time was an indoor flea market shop. He sent us a lot of his customers for installs.
Dang! 2500 watts from that thing @ 1 ohm! I wasn't expecting that after the rest of the tests. Thanks for the video Big D. I enjoyed it, as always. Looking forward to the next one!
Earthquake has great stuff, not too much on their amps of today, but their subs are top notch and have more xmax than any sub in their price range. 2 dbxi 12s with around 1500 watts will meet or beat your expectations on what 2 12s should sound like.
I used one of those to take 4th at idbl finals in 2001. Last second loaner amp, and it came through big time. Thanks for the memories
Love the old school! Keep up the great work Big D!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Oh Dereck man, poppin caps. That joke cracked me up. Thanks man. You made my day.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I loved my PHD2! I wish I had kept all my old setups. I had this on a pair of PPI Pro piston 12s.
Bro I've had the shredder in the black sink and the all grey sink....I loved these amps! I'm so happy that you are testing this out!
Alot of power in 2001. Like this video....
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@@wal If I remember correctly, the distortion levels were absolutely crazy on these amps.
I have a pair of Earthquake home audio bookshelf speakers and matching center channel. Branded Saturn 1511 monitors, they sound amazing
That’s cool 😎
Always loves seeing car audio from my youth.
love all the old school amps and subs content...really do appreciate the videos with amp dynos and reults...
Thanks for watching and commenting!
A friend of mine had an earthquake setup in a mustang back around 1991 and it was amazing, it was the loudest I had heard at the time. I didn't hear louder until another friend put 4 15" Savard Rap running off a (Zed) Crunch 250 in little Mazda B2200 truck in 1994.
I ended up with the amp but I gave it to my brother who got me into car audio, he still has it and it's the jewel of his collection.
Dude that's the best looking 20 year old amp I've ever seen ... thank you hot guy!
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Thanks BigD for providing the metric measurements for the size of these amps, nice touch for folks outside the US of A. :)
I have always wanted one of them back in the day
I have an old 400tx supposedly made in 1996. I bought it as a parts and repair for like $60 and I did recap it but the issue was the TL594 which caused it to go into protect, the fets were all fine I did upgrade the power supply fets to a little better ones. I also didn't have a 594 to replace it with but after looking at the datasheets for it and the tl494 I used one of those because I had quite a few extras. It is also like 10 lbs earthquake didn't skip on the high-quality aluminum in those days!
Those were the last good earthquake amplifiers made.
I had one of these on 4 JL 12's running 1 ohm all day. Had them in a ext cab ranger, it banged hard back in the day.
Don't have an amp but running an earthquake Sub-Zero 10 powered an Orion XTR 1500.1( watching an amp Dyno on it sold me 👍) @2OHMS and it slams for a 10 has very clean sound and seems very well built for its age, people always question the earthquake brand until they hear it. 😁
sonic electronix has the best demo of this sub. do you have it in a sealed box or ported?
@@rowboyto156 ported pre fab probably not perfect but it's within earthquakes specs
I learned a lot about car audio! I appreciate what you are doing!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Always wondered about the history and lineage of Earthquake. Seems they were all over the place with different designs and tech.
Yeah that’s a bit of a mystery to me as well
@@wal They made really good stuff when they were in san Mateo. They sold the company and moved to Hayward and the quality went way down hill. This amp in the video was known to make a lot of power but they weren't very reliable.
@@wal They are/where ass holes. They kept entering "company" show cars in competitions as "consumers". I had a picture. But it is gone now.
@@wal Want to sell that amp? :)
To be honest I've always seen them as a Speaker company (mainly subs) that just put there name on some amps.
Dude that’s the best intro to a video ever lmao!!! Great intro . Love ya big d wizzzzzzzzz
Props to Ali J, check her full vid in the pinned comment and video description
2k out of the earthquake, wow! I ran the earlier models and they had a lill grunt. But when they went to that series I stopped as I thought they didnt sound as clean. Glad to see it survive the 1ohm certified test. Thanks D.
Always cool to watch! Thanks Big D!
That Rockford font though!
Errybody likes Dracula
Big D, another awesome amp test.
Love your videos. Look forward to seeing them in my alerts..
Did anyone else notice how similar the Power House colors & logo are almost exact to Rockford Fosgate's logo at the time?
Peace.
MAN! I remember Earthquake. But it was a little bit later after my high school days.
I ran (3) PH-D5000 at 1 ohm for several years in my hearse on (12) Memphis 15" HPO subs. Earthquake support highly recommended that I run them at 1 ohm saying that is the impedance that they really performed best at. No lie there. Never had an issue during the 7 year run with them.
I had a pa2300 . Couple actually on jl audio subs. Loved them
Never been a big fan of EarthQuakes amps (usually kind of unimpressive) but there subs have always been where they shone. The HoLee S line and Subzero lines where and still are made in the states (sub zero using some foreign parts) and the low profile front hung SWS line are some real preformers. Even there cheaper on lines aren't half bad for what they are.
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Love your channel
I have the phd3 and it still sounds great
Sweet 👍
@@wal what's your email address so I can get your information to send it to you for oldschool testing
Look at you dropping a video so early in the day.
Awe jeah! Rollin dem out!
Williston Audio Labs yeah.........boy!!!!!!!!!
Love the old school Kicker sub! Those Earthquake amps blew subs back in the day...
Good stuff Big D, more old school stuff please!
I had that amplifier I was running it at .5 ohms to a pair of Kove Armageddon 15's I still have the Kove's in the back of my Hearse.
Did you live in Florida around the Tampa area?
I ran two Kove 10s in my Nissan hard body ported into the cab.
@@jasonneal I do, is there a scene here? I'm from Denver.
@@jasonneal I lived in Cincinnati Ohio area
Awesome video Big D. Love the old Ice Cube snippets
Used to have one. Even got the upgrade in person at there location. Wish I’d kept it, but wife and kids 🤷🏼♂️. Stick with the audio pit and save tons $$$
Yeah man priorities change and we grow up...some of us continue to play in the sandbox though!
Love the intro and the up skirt shot of the nichicons! Nice work saving another piece 👍👍
If you can get your hands on a Cadence A7HC, would love to see what that tests at. I had one of those 20 years ago and it was amazing for the price.
Looks like someone got a quad box, or am I imagining things?
No, you are not! Noice!
It said SD1 ????
Yup I can't imagine what else would come in a box like that!
That’s what I was thinking too.
This takes me back lot of people used it for spl comps. 2000 watts I hooked another of them. power terminal will strip out watch it
Man it’s been ages since I seen that amp 1999 to be exact in high school lol
Need more of the old school amps tested
I will try to do 2 vids per week with one being old skool
I ran two of the Earthquake PHD2 amps on four Earthquake Magma 12's back in the day. I still have the amps and picked up two more for an Old School Build.
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I still have a 12in Magma in a 2.5 ported box. I've been using for over 20 years. Never had any problems with it, and it still gets stupid loud! It's the original version that Earthquake made, with duel 3ohm voice coils. And even 20 years later it's stiil a beast.
Back in 2008 I had a PH5000 D2 green amp and it was 2ohm stable 3kRMS 99% efficiency and Made in the USA 🇺🇸
But it would keep beating the block up while other amps would be heating up! Mine stayed cool that I thought my fan was broken lol
It might just be me, but man, that 1 ohm test, over 450 amps... through 4 AWG inputs... Man, surprised they didn't go up in flames back in the day.
Is that the QuadBox from Kicker being delivered??? I saw SDI on the side...🤔
Gots to be
Yep! Deric loves Kicker. dido
We were swapping one of these around our team to get better numbers in the lanes in our individual vehicles in '00.
I always wanted to try these but never had a chance. I did use the older class AB ones. Good test.
I was just about to say the lousy results may have been due to leaky/bad caps but you already covered that! So it's just an amp that doesn't do rated output and what it does output is kinda dirty. That's a shame. Thanks for the test!!!
But killed it at 1 ohm
Never had one but saw them in the mags. Great vid!!
Thanks brother
@@wal if I ever come into $$$ W.A.L. for sure will have some funding for upgrades. Thanks for helping the audio community general grow. ❤❤
Can’t wait for the reviewing the new 4 kicker set up
Review will be delayed for a few weeks, but yeah it will be cool!
I had that amp in 2002 I think...
It sounded good on 4. 12 RF He2 or on 4 12 Sony Explode subs
But it was in a Hyundai excel hatchback....lol
I liked the he2
If your feeling up to it, try a dynamic test at .8 I have mine in my daily driver running at 1ohm and hasn’t got hot.
760 watts at 4ohms was still slamming. The rush for 1000 back then was a big deal
Very surprised to see it’s 1ohm power! That’s a substantial increase over the other tests
I remember these being high end "ILS" amplifiers .
i had a similar looking Earthquake 2 ch amp. i think rated at 700w rms bridged. had it on 3 jl 10w3v1 and it sounded awesome.i don't know about output numbers but it was a good sounding , dynamic amp!
Thumbs up, right from the start... just because of your funny intro! haha
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do i test at .8 ohms bro. please add under 1 ohm tests to all the amps in the future.
BIG D. Please dyno Earthquake PH5000WD & PH10000WD/2 . Thank you so much
I have that amp in some of my vids and yea that thing has some serious power 👍🔥🔥
Powa!!
I was once using 2007 yr model alpine 500 watt mono amp with a 10” earthquake sub duel voice coil in 2 ohms load never had a problem with it. Still have it but now I’m using the newer alpine R series duel coil sub with mono block Alpine amp 900 watts RMS. Good enough for me. YA BOI
Hey wiz, where do you send the amps to get repaired? I have an old school alphasonik pma2500 class ab with tiffany rca does over 1600rms at 4 ohms and has the hour meter on it. It was wired to wrong ohms by my brother and stopped working. I'm willing to repair it or even just donate it to you if you would make a video on it. Thanks. I uploaded the guts of it many years ago on the smd forum and it's still there to see if you want to.
Hey man love watching your Amp Dyno videos. Could you possibly do a Dyno run on an Earthquake Sound Mini d2500.1 v2. I'm a huge fan of Earthquake but can't find much in its actual power rating. Your help would be much appreciated.
Earthquake is still manufactured here in the Bay Area in Hayward. One shop in San Mateo is owned by a guy who is 70 years old and he pretty much only sells Earthquake.
Manufactured? In Cali? Maybe the high end home stuff
Absolutely love your videos keep up the good work...Where can I get a rockford fosgate power amp repaired?
TheAmpLab.net
Always love seeing the older amps tested👍
🤔At the end, maby kickers quad prefab in the near future?
Or could be Boss Octo box nobody knows about 🤪
I’m still trying to dig out my oldschool Lanzar 500 and 240. These had the old Hollywood 30’s style dont. These were built I think in the same factory down near Chatsworth where autotek and HiFonics were made. I’d like to see how they do if I can find them. I saved them cause they were in great condition and had the original boxes.
The original Lanzar were made by Zed Audio (yes, same as the old Rodek, Hifonics, ESX, Autotek, Crunch 50, etc. etc.). They should make close to rated power, they will not make more "dynamic" power and they won't benefit from high voltage in since they are regulated power supply. Also the Zed amps typically do not like running below rated impedance. Some years ago you could actually buy refurbs off the Lanzar website for super cheap and I had a bunch of them at one point.
The good ones say "Made in USA" on them, later versions were far east manufactured but the same design, later Lanzar has been very hit or miss with mostly junk and a few good ones.
I was hoping to see you test it below 1ohm
The Earthquake amps were decent sounding amps in their day.
Hey Big D i got an old Mtx Thunder series 942 i bought new it just smoked the other day i wont name drop but it was a lansare quality sub could u tell me where u have ur amps sent off for repair possibly?
@Dave Micolichek amp is really sentimental to me does d have u fix em or do u have a page or something so i can check ur work no offense i just dont want to get ripped off the stuff in the water these days be making people do crazy s#$@!
opening video was hilarious :D
Fo sho 🤘
Where are you sending your amps for repairs?
That’s beefy for an older amp. I still miss the days where subs all pretty much looked alike amps look alike and most ran sealed enclosure or BANDPASSES so you couldn’t hear the distortion right before you blew the subs or Woofers I should say by comparison to what’s out now. But we appreciated what we had and we were happy. Been a while since I heard a sub in a sealed box about a year ago with my AP 3000.1 and a pair of Kove Armageddon U2 18’s a pair. Makes me want to go sealed with my solo X subs but I like when I hit that 18-28 Hz note.
I'm still up for offering my repair services dude, seeing as how everything has gone postal now! Haha... And of course, you'd get it back! I got sooooo close to winning an old American amp with needle type VU meters just because of you! xD I did get a surprisingly good Sony (of all companies, i mostly hate Sony!) amp that has LED VU meters though, it was running on my living room wall driving my monitor speakers for a couple of weeks! That always gets funny looks lol just finished repairing a few home amps i acquired cheap (Rotel RA-820BX and RA-840B! Plus an RA-611 i had lying around for a while, finally got to fixing the preamp and setting the idling currents for all of 'em!)
Would have loved to do the repair for you though! Thing is "upgrading" the value of caps isn't always a good idea.. In this case it'll likely help as that thing is designed to be overloaded, it seems! Reminds me of Rotel, everything is usually under-rated and understated lol they are very good at doing "wire with gain" amps.. I believe Rotel/Roland/Rank is also Boss Audio, explains why i like a couple of amps of theirs i have and repaired!
When that amp came out, it literally shredded speakers , and fast. We only sold ground zero nuclear subs just to handle that kind of power when running 2 zubs.
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Hey BIG D, the Orion Blue Book showed this amp rated 1300X1 and on your dyno at 2ohms it was 1378, so my guess is someone that was in charge of the advertising screwed up on the specs or something. OBB had it rite and the magazine had it rite. So weird rite LoL
Anyways, keep up the good work brother. Love the videos
Finally had 3 in my truck got 2 of them sitting in a box
Most stereo competitors ran 16 volts to this amp.... Try it again at 16 volts and you probably will get better results 😁😁
The Nichicon is a good brand but the Nippon Chemi-con capacitors that were used are also a good brand of capacitors.
Big D please do some audio bank and digital sound star to!
I believe you set the bench mark in Dyno! 🥂
Already did Audiobank a few vids ago
I have one of these. I was wondering what the actual power was.
I want to know what my US Amps USA-100 will do
Me too i have two of them (maybe an older revision judging from the look of amps) and the unfortunate thing is, they have significant difference in power :/
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Nice , probably made 30 % more on a 16 volt system which would charge at 18 volts or more , this is how we use to make power , high voltage and load the amp down !!!
Strange they mimicked the rockford fosgate font for the Power House logo. Do you recon they were trying to poke fun, extract urine? Xx
My cousin worked at a stereo shop and gave me a killer deal on 2 of these when they first came out. I put one in my 88 Hyundai Excel and it stopped working and I ended throwing the other one in to replace it. My cousin had told me it had probably blown the internal fuse so I held on to it and was going to check and switch it out. Well it ended up in storage and I just found it and decided to open it up and see if the fuse blew and the 30amp blade fuse is still good but I notice one of the same caps in the middle is loose one of the wires popped. Where could I send this to get re-capped and what would it cost me roughly?
Not bad for when it was built.
Hitz Hawd!!
Ohh wee dyno time. I get giddy. 🤗
Awe yeah!
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Hey Wiz, Back in 2000 or so Shaq had a SUV tricked out with an Earthquake system. I want to think it was featured in Car Audio Mag. The install had like 9 15” Magma subs in a big hexagon enclosure, if memory serves me right I believe they were powered by bunch of the PHD2 amps. The truck was Superman themed? Someone chime in if I got this half way right. I’m getting old! 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤪🥊
I do remember that and have the magazine here somewhere
Actually pretty badass at 1 ohm. If you were using it burping. for what it is
Had 2 of the next gen D2's on 3 JBL GTi 15"s. Ended up selling one and ran it at 1 ohm. Didn't if have an unregulated power supply?
Is it just me? or the guy on the picture is 🔥super hot !!!🔥
It’s just you 😬
Please! for a future video can you review the TORO R3 1500 Max 750RMS.. i need to see guts please. can't find much online.