HiFonics Pluto VII from 1989 Amp Dyno Tested
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1989 HiFonics Pluto VII Amplifier by Zed Audio
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I think a lot of us wish 1989 was only _25_ years ago!
I was thinking the same thing! Big D's slippin😂
35 years ago! Ugh!!
It was more like 15 years ago ,I stopped growing up around then
Yes we do. Those were the good ol' days. Lol
I remember when i knew guys born in 1989 and were 20yo 😂
These are the best videos. Especially if you are from the late 80’s era of car audio.
I'm 50 this year and been in the Car Audio business since I was 16. When I hear the costs of these products from back then compared to today it amazes me. Not only did we spend crazy money on these products, alot of switched things out all the time when the new best things came out. Seemed like money was growing on trees back then for me. Great times!
Yeah things were so expensive, I saved for months to buy stuff. I sure did my research to keep from wasting $$
Literally still have this amp running a 10" in my work vehicle.
I bought it new, in the 80s. Cost a FKTON of money for a kid.
Amortizing it over the years of use I got from it, and the low watt sound Q contests I won with it, I think I got a good deal.
OMG!! Zed audio HiFonics amps were what I drooled over and wanted so bad when I was in high school. Eventually, I ended up with two Cupids(one series 7 and one series 8) and a Zeus. Those amps were workhorses, and were clean as well. I always kick myself for getting rid of them.
Thanks Big D!! You’ve been hitting it out of the park lately!!!
same here had amp in video , Icarus a Cupid wish I still had them
Damn. Me too. Clean and unveiled. All Zed audio stuff was on another level of hifi
2:35 they used red back then because the blue led as we know it now, wasn’t invented until the mid nineties and not widely adopted until the later.
Thanks for another awesome amp dyno video, sir!❤
And the green LEDs in 1989 were basically yellow…and expensive compared to red. 1989 folks were used to red power LEDs.
always liked hifonics....
I started driving in 1991. By the time I was ready to get my license, I had already purchased a car and installed a system in it. I lusted for these old school Hifonics, Phoenix Gold, Soundstream, and Alpine amps. My first system consisted of the very first CD Changer by Sony with an attached controller/headunit (looked like a white tackle box) feeding 2 amps; a Majestic 100x100 running in 2ohm load to Boston Acoustics 506 plates in the doors and 4" Pyle closed-back in the rear (at the time, I had no idea what a front-stage meant). For the subs, I had a Coustic 380 powering 2 Blaupunkt 8's in a dual chambered ported enclosure tuned to 38hz. That system was my pride and joy until I heard a car burglary gang was targeting my car, so I uninstalled everything and sold it off. That system is what hooked me, and now at nearly 49, I'm still in the game, though my current system is waaaay more advanced and robust. I'll never forget those first few years in car audio, though. I learned so much by experimenting and reading as many magazines as possible, going to car audio events, and hounding my local audio shops for tips and pointers.
First time i ever even heard of HiFonics amp was a guy around Everett WA running a Hifonics Colossus Zeus connected to Peavy 24" Black Widows in the bed of a green Chevy El Camino. Loudest thing I ever heard in my life.
Big D, thanks for the HiFonics love! I had an Olympus VIII and a Cupid VIII back in the day. Sure wish i had thought about using a barrier strip back then. Those molex plugs were such a pain!
Imagine running 2 pairs of 6x9's off this Pluto amp back in the day, that would jam !!
I used to sell and install HiFonics VII and VIII ! They were always rated for less than their true abilities. Plus, the design made it so even clipping sounded better than other amps. The waveform would be rounded off somewhat at clipping, so it wasn't quite as harsh. Great amps and great review!
I still have my Pluto rated for 70 watts. I initially had it to run door speakers with a Cyclops running the subs. Once I became a family man I kept things simpler and smaller and have been running the Pluto on a single 8. Still sounds great to this day.
Mine is currently running a 10".
Represent! Lol.
The Zed built “Cyclops” 100x1 mono amp was the first ever mono with built in crossover that I payed a fortune for and hands down the best amp I EVER owned for 2 decades! Mine was stolen and I still dream about it!#ZedMemories#80’sBestofTimes#🔊❤️@DGM218
Had this same amp once . For 2 years, there were no problems in 1990. Hook up in a ford escort on my mids. Loved it an sold it to my buddy an bought more car audio. Also had his big brother thor. Nothing but clean loud tunes. Thanks, big d wiz for the review
Blue LEDs were hard to produce and very expensive back in the day.
They are still the hardest and most expensive to produce.
Zed audio was great stuff back in the day. I ran 3 autotek 66’s on 12 12” kicker subs and 2 of the 44’s on mids and highs. It was a great system back then.
Did a large system with all of those back in 89. I still have the 50w / ch version. Great sound quality. Excellent made in USA amps!
I had a pair of the Ulysses 50w cheater amps and they put out some really good power bridged.
My dad had a setup in a truck years ago with a Cyclops VIII and Pluto VII. These amps are great and they would probably fire back up after all these years. I also still have those and an Odin VIII lying around. Would love to see more HiFonics!
I will buy them. Seriously... I'm working on a project car from that era and I'd love to have those in there.
I have a (hold on, threw up a lil in my mouth) Skar audio as a place holder right now.
Lol, j/k Skar isn't bad, but definitely not ideal for the quality level build I am going for.
ZED for the win!
These guys were good performers but I liked the look of the next series with the white heatsinks and new lettering the best overall.
That was the series 8.
Damn. I've got one. Was going to use it for highs, Odin for mids, and a Thor or 2 for lows. That's unbelievable.
In 1995 I bought a HiFonics Zeus amp from The Stereo Shop in Pomona (it was out of their demo Datsun 510). That amp bumped hard, but then like a year later I discovered that I wasn't even running it in bridged mode. After that is nearly cracked my windshield with 2X JL W0 12's. Amazingly, I happened across a matching 4-channel HiFonics Olympus amp at a pawn shop. I put that to a set of Boston Acoustic 3-way components and a big EQ with 2 caps. Damn that system was clean.
Damn, u rich bro. ;)
OMG had this amp on 2 jlw0 in early 90s it got HOT!! never stopped playing
35 years old. love your videos
Very Nice. Does exactly what you want it to do . Love the old stuff. THANKS for another great video.
My Zed built HiFonics “Cyclops” 100x1w was the BEST amp I’ve ever owned to date! I think I got mine in 89’/90’ from Stereo Concepts in Gautier,Ms. and it was such a Beast on two Kicker 10” subs in custom boxes. It was one of the first mono amps with a built-in cross over that I noticed. I still think of this U.S. made amp and the quality back then with a huge price tag but worth every penny!#ZedBuilt#HiFonics#Cyclops#🔊
Excellent amp in 89 👍
250 watts @ 2ohm mono... Legendary micro amp with monster power output. Installed a few of these back in the daze... BDBD/2024
Dang, throwback. I still have my Hifonics Aphrodite of this vintage back in the closet collecting dust :)
I've got 2 series viii Pluto's running the front sound stage in my car and love them. Old school for the win
I’m loving the Thursday videos! Thanks Big D!
What a little beast
I had a hifonics falcon running 2 tens that thing rocked hard
I would say that the headroom on this amp is impressive... a lot of space for dynamic response even when you have it cranked. Compare that with the current amps that do say 100watts at 1% and 101 dynamic... joy.
Loved the series 7! Had a few Zeus amps. These were superb sounding and they only went into protect if you were really doing something stupid!
A FEW? How rich were you?
I think the world needs a ZED audio history lesson. I mean how many different Amp brands did they produce? I've always wondered.
I have owned several older Clarion amps that to my understanding were a ZED design.
That amp case design was always my favorite; Zeus and Isis I used quite a bit. I had the red on black Lanzar 240 & 500 but the aesthetics from HiFonics always looked so much better!
I still have a few of the Pluto VII, they will run at 2 ohms mono, but man the get really hot, really fast. Great video!!!
That was almost my first stereo setup. Pluto bridged on 2 low power 12s and the alpine 3522 on a pair of Jensen triaxles
ZED Audio was top notch
Big D the blue LED was first presented in 1992 and was the last piece in the LED history in order to produce all colors. That’s why old school electronics before that only came with GREEN OR RED LED COLORS!!
Yeah I've heard that too but it was available before then. My 84 VW had a blue LED for the high-beam indicator. It was quite dim, however.
Maybe wasn’t LED
35 year old amp sounds and performs great
Awesome little amp!
This is right around when I got into car audio, when I was 12 in 1989. They sold Motorola Pagers at my local audio store so I got one lol. I had a full system before I even had a car. Couple 12" Pyle Drivers on a Zapco with a Alpine head unit. Went into a Honda Accord my grandparents sold me for cheap.
Great old school 🏫 audio information 👍😎 you missed a decade... 30yrs since High School 🏫 graduation 🎓 😉 lol
It's probably the most channel matched amp I have seen on your channel.
I'm impressed myself. I had one like that and it sounded really good!
Very nice Derek... one of the best SQ amps of the era, surprisingly loud too. The best of late 80s Zed audio. I had a europa 30x4 and an Odin 75x2.
TL594 on the power supply...fancy! That old HiFonics logo definitely better than what happened to them nowadays. As do the amps, no cookie cutter units. And yes, the power LED got to be green...but red is cheaper so there that goes...
Still sounds solid!
Sweet demo Big D! Thanks for sharing and have a great rest of your week 😃👍👍🤙
We ran this amp 2ohm mono .... it was great. Greg
I had a couple of the old school HiFonics amps back in the day. Great amps, but expensive.
I remember Zed HiFonics amps were the first with built in crossovers and that was huge for the time and definitely worth the money! I got years out of my “Cyclops” 100x1w amp before my 90’ Nissan 300z was stolen in N.O. at a 92’ Gn’R concert! I still think about that car and amp!🔊❤️@joboy77
You're amazing Big "D"! Keep rockin' my friend!!! 😊🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶
I love the flea market hash tag
I love the old school tests, but I do wish Big D was able to test some of the high end modern equipment with the same test format.
I had the original white one. Had it in the glovebox of my Chevy chevet 😊
Wow!
That small amp is on par with a punch 40 😊 Nice Video 👍👍👍
Awesome seeing 80s gear i cut my teeth on starting as a 12v tech.i ran 2 plutos on mids and highs,great SQ amps!!! How about a linear power review please?
Badass!!!
I had a pluto powering a pair of Yamaha plate speakers in my back deck of my tercel and a a Alphasonic MAS 1100 amp on a CV LE 15D4 sub infinate baffle in my 81 tercell.. lol
I got one of these on trade back in early 2000s think i still have it at my dad's house attic. Only thing is the 2.5v gain using it on my head unit it would distort before max volume. I was told it's because the head unit put out to much voltage for it.
I can't remember the name of the 50 W per channel one.But it was a monster,,, I remember I took that Amplifier And stacked it with a Majestic 250. Per channel. On 2 of the 12 inch blue thunders version one. And a 4 cubic foot box.
It was absolutely amazing back then anyways.
Thank you for that
Starting my hifonics 7 and 8 series now.... 25 years later 😅😅
Cool amp!!! I'm a fan of these " peanut" amps, like RFP 30! Rfp 45 hd!
I Love hifonics vii ,i actually still got my zeus,( 2 pluto,and a thor!!!
It would appear, given the presence of VX series Nichicon, that this has had a majority recap at the least halfway through its lifetime.
Thanks.
Made in the usa . I have a couple zed audio 2 channel on my shelf . One boss and a planet audio . Both still sound good
My dad had a alpine amp just like that under his seat in his 70 Chevelle and I remember after he got his music installed he took a 20 minute test drive with me and the guy who installed it and it went up in smoke he slammed on the brakes and ripped it out of his car and ripped all the wiring out in like 10!seconds.
These were all the competition with auto Tech and rodeck amplifiers
Ran this amp on my mids and highs and a vulcan on my 15"s
I have a old Power Acoustik 2 channel amp that looks similar to this. It sounds great though I don't know it's actual rms. I'm going to use it again on a Skar Audio 10 inch mid where the factory subwoofer was in my 98 Navigator.
Very cool! I have a carver pt1250 amp I would love to see you test, the only thing is I don't know if I want to part with it for that long, lol who knows..
Cool
Wish you could test the old Hifonics Ulysses Amp
I loved these, they didn't sound that great, definitely not a smooth sounding amp but they put out a good deal of power and drove subs well. In my area they were also constantly on sale making them one of the best value amps
Gah my 1st Car Audio mag buying guide is from 1992 or so, I do have a 1989 or so yr Home Stereo one with Car Audio prices instead which was a odd one.
Blue LED’s weren’t available back then. Green, I dunno when those came out.
Blue LED’s have a story behind them.
I recently came across a amp u might like it's a power acoustic with vu meters apache 980 I believe is model number they was popular before the area 51 power acoustic amps came out.
I want to see IR shots of the circuit board during bridged 2ohm operation!
I only did dynamic tests at 2 ohms mono
@@wal2 I know, but whatever way you do it to see how hot & what parts get hot.
these could go down to .5 ohms. competitors loved these in the low-power categories. the pluto could run eight 6" mids or tweets at 4 ohms each.
the issue was the massive amount of current these would draw... they were unbeatable.
knew a guy ran 4 15" subs off a single hi-fonics jupiter. with three amplifiers, he was unbeatable.
Wow I had a Zeus Boltar and Thor
Neato
Not bad for a 35-year-old amp. ;)
Have you dyno'd any Hifonic Gen X amps?? I have a genX Zeus and two Simpsons. It would be cool to see what they could do!!!😅😅
I have looked, but can't find where you have tested the odin series 7?
If I had to take a guess at which one of those three sounded the best it would be the Alpine.
#Question: You always show tests with the ELAC speakers. Have you ever considered GR Research?
ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2 Upgrade Kit to test. Maybe as a collaboration.
And your opinion on the difference in component quality, does it make a difference or not.? let's discuss
Great video thumbs up!
35 years 3:10
It was probably "properly" rated 2x 30W@0.01% and you get more because you're running it up to 1% and beginning to measure a clipped signal. 1% is quite clipped. Amp dyno lies. It's a cool novelty though.
I hated those amps with the power and ground wires coming directly out the amp
did that amp get recapped? Nichicons aren't common place generally
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im betting that Autotek in the teaser looks identical to this amp inside
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@@wal2The stereo shop I worked at back in the 90s was a Hifonics dealer. Its a lot of fun to see this old Zed stuff still alive and kickin. If you know, you know!
Man I abused the crap out of old hifonics always bridged class ab at 2 ohms ran em hot but they would never die it might thermal shut down but are tanks ! .
😮