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I actually bought one of these amplifiers right on Sunset Boulevard in 1994 when I was down there with my band. It was a lot bigger than this but it actually sounded pretty damn good. Who knows what guts were in it and what size the fuse was.
I have a Jbc equalizer / line driver. Puts out 9 V and I've never had to turn my gains up on any of my amplifiers. It would have been an excellent Trooper which I've been able to tune to any song and make it sound good. It has to be close to 20 years old by now. Still works great. At the time they were making an excellent line driver.
I was a tech at a small mom & pop stereo shop from ‘95 to ‘97. I saw a lot of this stuff. We had JBC, Rockwood, and Kenford brands and some others I can’t remember right now. The heavy gauge bottom cover and even steel weights inside the case were common.
Thump was the main one I seen around, a knock off Kenwood can't remember the name looked very close. And there were legit amps like Optimus that looked similar to other more well known amps. I actually had an Optimus it wasn't super strong but it did the job. I also had many boss amps, not really a knock off but it was in it's own class of flea marketedness. All the boss amps I ever had were not that bad. I was really into mobile audio around 92- actually now but that's when my addiction started. Small Town I was in all we could hope for was a boss amps and some 2nd or 4th hand subs held together with tape and screws. But we made do.
I had this junk come into the shop I ran all the time. We had all of your favorite classic traveling trade show, flea market junk come in. My favorite was the “Kennwood” amp That came in as it was in a black shell very similar to the previous years “Kenwood” amps. Had similar font and had two fuse sockets that put it in the 30 amp range. Opened it up and it was close to the board you showed here and the one “15 amp” fuse was not even connected to power and it all ran through the second 15 amp fuse. Showed the customer that no power was crossing the one socket and they agreed to allow us to open it and that’s when they saw the horror show and that they lost $130 on junk. It got to a point where I had two amps on display with there belly’s opened (kicker and a entry level brand majestic we sold to compete) with a plexiglass cover so people could see what real amps had inside. I would then ask if I could open their JBC or Whatever flea market amp so they could see the difference. I ended up collecting a few off brands and put them on display as well with a sign that said what not to buy.
Cant tell you how many customers I had back in the day that thought they had a JBL am when it was a JBC. I preferred the Pyramid amps of the day more. lol
The only good flea market amp I ever had was a Legacy. It powered a couple free air 12 inch Kickers pretty good. Most of those flea market amps had less power than 7 band eq. 😂😂
You have to love the late 80s PMPO ratings which were initially about 10x the actual output, later on some manufacturers started using 100x the actual output. I remember seeing a 1500w pmpo boombox back in the day yet the power input was only about 20W which makes for incredible efficiency.
PMPO was Peak Measured Power Output and was about 4 times actual power and IMPP was Instantaneous Peak Power Output and was about 10 times actual power.
These were a strictly Fleamarket brand, that Nikki, one of the owners of Audio America owned a distributor called Florida Sound Distributors. Cost for them were about $16. An IC amp most likely came from China. Went to Cali, and distributed.
Big D, your videos are great. When amps make good power it's interesting but when you get stuff like this it is 100% gold. I nearly spit my drink out when you opened it up, thanks for sharing that suspense with us. haha Take care man.
The amp chips are internally bridged. So u can not bridge them anymore but u can atleast put them in parallel and run a 2ohm or 1ohm sub as u have 2x current capability. 15w sounds like cd6283cs chip which is a really popular flea market chip and were immensely popular back in the 90s in 3rd world countries where expensive amp chips were out of reach for the bottom end..
@@bassblaster505 these days u can have tda7498e class d chip for few bucks and a simple push pull powersupply in this box will make an immensely powerful 100w+100w class d. Tpa3255 ic can make an immensely powerful amplifier in a tiny package. 3 of them will easily fit in this enclosure and make 300w/4 + 600w sub channel. Making the 50v powersupply in this would be more difficult than slapping 3 chips following the schematics on datasheet.
@@KuntalGhosh oh yeah you aint telling me anything i dont already know lol. Last summer i was going to build a stereo subwoofer amp for my bedroom from some dev Tpa3255 boards but decided not to because 2ohm home subwoofers are hard to find and 4 ohm NOT 10%THD was only like 200W or so. By the time i get some 48-56V 350W+ PSU's and a case id be cheaper to buy a Dayton Audio 500W plate amp
Back when I installed in japan (95-2006) everyone was looking for house brands to sell. I picked up some of this JBC hot mess to test. 1000w amp was almost 2 1/2 foot long and had a 6 inch board in it. It couldn’t even light a light bulb. The subs were all off center and either stuck or grinding, and the components crossovers popped the caps at 35 watts. Iirc the shipping was more than the junk.
Comeon bro. I have a legit old school rf amp x2 with original box and manual in absolutely mint condition I keep asking you to bench. Then you got this POS . Lol, always much love Big-d! Fully support regardless brother.
Lol.. guts look like an L.A. Sound amp from Fingerhut catalog I ordered back in the day. JBC I remember seeing ads of these, Rockwood, Targa, Kenford, Thump in magazines like AS&S, CA&E & CSR. I look back now at those ads and it seems the mags kind of went downhill after seeing all these low budget brands throughout. Still great memories of course having the mags still is great 👍 missing quite a few still though. There is budget bangers and budget hangers good to see you telling what is trash and what is decent.
@@BG-ti9hb A few years ago I tested a Hott Setup 2.50 and put the video on my site. I also tested an Orion 250SX. The boards are almost exactly alike. The filter caps and the rail caps are different. The Hot Setup used two axial lead 3300mfd rail caps(for a total of 6600mfd) lying flat on the board, while the 250SX used four radial lead 2200mfd rail caps (for a total of 8800 mfd) stood on end. If I remember correctly the power output was almost identical. The only other difference I could see is the Orion 250SX had the "Phantom Power" plug to power an outboard equalizer and the Hott Setup 2.50 did not. I found these to be the easiest amps to work on because of their symmetrical boards. I wish Bernie Boland was still designing amps. I liked his amps best.
You can tell a lot about an amp by the fuse(s) installed. I learned this the hard way back in the day when I first started in car audio. I found a (new in the box) no name amp that was listed as 1k watts (max) at my local flee market. Now I honestly knew it wasn't gonna be 1,000 watts but I hoped it was gonna be at least 500 watts. Bought it for like 30 bucks (major red flag right there). Brought it home and took it out of the box and found a 5 amp fuse. I had a Jensen amp that was listed as 300 watts that had a 25 amp fuse in my car already. Needless to say that was when I started insisting on seeing the fuse rating on any amp I was considering buying. Btw, the 1k amp for 30 bucks was complete junk. I had a Sony boombox that was as loud as that 🐂💩 amp. Hey, you live and you learn.
I’ve seen some of these with extra fuses not connected to anything inside. So you can’t always go by fuse, but if there’s only a 5A fuse, then you prob know it’s head unit power
@@wal2 🤔 i hadn't come across a fake fuse scam back then so that never really crossed my mind. I guess it could be possible to even find something with an over rated fuse installed or listed in the specs. Either way I lucked out the majority of the time on what I bought back then. Got what I paid for and I was cool with that. Just had to use your best judgement and past experiences.
I was waiting for the shot of the 340Watts written on the amp, with Dick Riculous saying..... "Are they just plain lyin' to ya? Lyin' to ya? Lyin' to ya?"
Do an amp dyno on that old Sherwood 240… and that pyramid gold series that had the angled heat sinks. I’d love to know what those things put out back in the day.
i remember a girl i dated in high school had a head unit in her camaro that said "Alphine" on the tape slot door. looked just like the alpine font too. twin post cassette deck. this amp would be a nice match for it.
Desperately looking for a decent 6 ch amp about 70 75 watts a channel to run for highs . Since you test all these amps I figured you would no. Can you recommend anything . That is true to what the amp claims it has !? Thank you ..
Ive got what I think is a rebadge of this somewhere. I got them from those traveling electronic sale deals that used to go town to town. Some if the amps they carried were actually pretty good but a lot were like this. I did find some of those KONAKI dd clones at one before those got popular online. TBH I miss living in an area with swap meets.
Damn the wudi amp had better power lol! Also the mini d amp has higher numbers ! Also I have it in my studio and love it to test coax and mids for sound and see who is best
When I get my new amp, I have a flea market amp to send you, A Preformance technique ICBM Giant supposedly rated for 2500+2500W its a two channel digit monoblock class D
I didn't have that exact model. But I never did open it up either. I want to say it had more power than 16 watts. Since I had two 12in kicker comps on it. Maybe 50 watts on a good cold day. I bet whoever broke into my car and stole it was pissed later. Lol
@@wal2 well this was my first stereo. I then overloaded my usaccustics zed built one of the smaller ones no less. But honestly when I was in high school and doing this no one had over 1k in one amp. Some times not even in total. Price per watt was expensive. That's why when I did finally get a ppi art series used a300.2 I had no problems using that as my subwoofer amp and running under 2 ohms. Probably power wires as thick as dental floss too. I had so many horrible installs until it finally happened and I blew an amp. It couldnt be any of the cheap used amps buy an infinity kappa 255a 5 channel I saved up for and bought for around $1k from crutchfield. I felt stupid and sick to my stomach lol.
I had a jbc 1000 watt amp my mom bought for me from a swap meet in the 90s and I opened it up all of it would fit in that case and probably have room I kinda wish I kept it so u could test it 😆
That orange fuse is 40amp. Sounds like maybe something isn't working inside properly or maybe some dial pots need tuning. That power is barely more than a factory stereo.
I remember seeing adverts for JBC (mainly for their speakers) in Car Stereo Review, never owned any. I remember a set of their component sets being reviewed and the reviewer commenting that it was odd that they came with a active crossover (as in before the amplifiers.) This amp is so bad, I almost wonder if it's a knock off given what I read on their other stuff. However, I've always heard to avoid brands with names that sound like other brands, (such as Rockville or Techwood.) JBC gets double the points as they sound like both JBL and JVC. I also just realized that I was not subbed to the extras channel, time to fix that!
Man I’d love to send you this Lanzar HTG888 I’m using in a fun build some day. I have 8 6.5 Pyle subs I’m going to isobaric for s and g’s. It would be a fortune… it’s a half surfboard. Probably cheaper to Amazon you one haha
Sad to say that the 5A fuse was still overrated. I feel sorry for anyone that got ripped off by buying one of those. Makes a modern-day Boss or Blaupunkt amp look viable, which is sad.
I sold this exact model amp on Ebay couple years ago for $5 at auction. It originally had a 10a fuse so I knew the 340w was bs lol. Typical korean made low budget 90s amp
I was waiting for it big d I've ran a cross amp like this and as soon as the bottom plate comes off I see wire's it just junk and even some of the names make you cringe
I remember this crap in the Car Audio Magazine ads. JBC Just Be Cool. RockWood, a word mix between Kenwood and Rockford. I’m surprised there wasn’t an Alfine or Clarioff.
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I actually bought one of these amplifiers right on Sunset Boulevard in 1994 when I was down there with my band. It was a lot bigger than this but it actually sounded pretty damn good. Who knows what guts were in it and what size the fuse was.
Let's not overlook how amazingly consistent it is🥸
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@@wal2 🤣🤣🤣
Looks like they added the "0" at the end of 340 to Just Be Cool
Agreed!!
Or they conveniently dropped the decimal point...
3, 2, 1 this was one of the best videos ever, the shock value was enormous.
I seriously did not look until I showed it. The reaction was legit
Yes, I agree I got a chuckle out of this one. Keep up the good work Dereck.
I have a Jbc equalizer / line driver. Puts out 9 V and I've never had to turn my gains up on any of my amplifiers. It would have been an excellent Trooper which I've been able to tune to any song and make it sound good. It has to be close to 20 years old by now. Still works great. At the time they were making an excellent line driver.
Does it look like other brands? It's probably just a common rebrand lol. That happens a lot.
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This is something you say to that friend you know doesn’t go over well with parents… “Just be cool bro”
Now we know "We pity the Just Be Cool" 🤣
No lie
I was a tech at a small mom & pop stereo shop from ‘95 to ‘97. I saw a lot of this stuff. We had JBC, Rockwood, and Kenford brands and some others I can’t remember right now. The heavy gauge bottom cover and even steel weights inside the case were common.
We were getting scammed!
"Kenford"..hillarious...no Crockford Phosmate? or" Moundstream" or "Recision Power""?
@@wal2 Absolutely. I appreciate you man. Stay safe out there.
@@raymo6795 I laughed out loud the first time I saw a Kenford. Thump! is in there too.
The lengths these manufacturers went to NOT produce an actual amplifier is amazing
I've seen a lot of knock offs and flea market amps, but I've never heard of JBC!
A new one for me.
Thanks for the video D
Thanks for watching and commenting!
My friend had a 4ch JBC amp pushing 4 pioneer impp 12's in the early 90's. And boy did that that thing kick in that cutlass.
I remember jbc.. kenford, hotshots/thump
Thump was the main one I seen around, a knock off Kenwood can't remember the name looked very close.
And there were legit amps like Optimus that looked similar to other more well known amps.
I actually had an Optimus it wasn't super strong but it did the job.
I also had many boss amps, not really a knock off but it was in it's own class of flea marketedness.
All the boss amps I ever had were not that bad.
I was really into mobile audio around 92- actually now but that's when my addiction started.
Small Town I was in all we could hope for was a boss amps and some 2nd or 4th hand subs held together with tape and screws.
But we made do.
Thx for the entertainment D! I have a cool old Blue anodized G&S Competition amp I can send you.
Those are legit
I had this junk come into the shop I ran all the time. We had all of your favorite classic traveling trade show, flea market junk come in.
My favorite was the “Kennwood” amp
That came in as it was in a black shell very similar to the previous years “Kenwood” amps. Had similar font and had two fuse sockets that put it in the 30 amp range. Opened it up and it was close to the board you showed here and the one “15 amp” fuse was not even connected to power and it all ran through the second 15 amp fuse. Showed the customer that no power was crossing the one socket and they agreed to allow us to open it and that’s when they saw the horror show and that they lost $130 on junk.
It got to a point where I had two amps on display with there belly’s opened (kicker and a entry level brand majestic we sold to compete) with a plexiglass cover so people could see what real amps had inside. I would then ask if I could open their JBC or Whatever flea market amp so they could see the difference. I ended up collecting a few off brands and put them on display as well with a sign that said what not to buy.
Great way to show people before the Internet
Fun fact , in 2002 this amp won an award for " best paper weight " . It also inspired the design for current boss amp , i mean boss paper weights
Love the way it looks! I have a boss zed circuit board I repaired but no heatsink for it. This jbc heatsink would be perfect for it.
Cant tell you how many customers I had back in the day that thought they had a JBL am when it was a JBC. I preferred the Pyramid amps of the day more. lol
Wow they Just Been Conned!
@@wal2 Exactly what I was thinking.
The only good flea market amp I ever had was a Legacy. It powered a couple free air 12 inch Kickers pretty good. Most of those flea market amps had less power than 7 band eq. 😂😂
You have to love the late 80s PMPO ratings which were initially about 10x the actual output, later on some manufacturers started using 100x the actual output. I remember seeing a 1500w pmpo boombox back in the day yet the power input was only about 20W which makes for incredible efficiency.
PMPO was Peak Measured Power Output and was about 4 times actual power and IMPP was Instantaneous Peak Power Output and was about 10 times actual power.
WLS = when lightening strikes I think is the rating most of these used
This is the best thing I've seen all week
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These were a strictly Fleamarket brand, that Nikki, one of the owners of Audio America owned a distributor called Florida Sound Distributors. Cost for them were about $16. An IC amp most likely came from China. Went to Cali, and distributed.
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That price makes sense, back then amps were about $1 / 1 watt.
Big D, your videos are great. When amps make good power it's interesting but when you get stuff like this it is 100% gold. I nearly spit my drink out when you opened it up, thanks for sharing that suspense with us. haha Take care man.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wow, it's an early Mitzu MPA-3000RD!
The moment I saw how poor the text was done on the ends I had a good idea of how well this was going to do.
Best reveal ever.😄
No spoilers.
Watch the video.
And I didn’t peep early either so the reveal was an authentic reaction
Had a subwoofer crossover made by them back in 95 from the flea market also remember there subs that use to come in bandpass boxes
Regardless of quality, that is a sweet looking amp.
Yeah they Goteem with the color
Very old flea market amp..takes me back to the Rockwood detonator amps...
Opened a 600 “so called” watt BOSS amp back in 94 that was the same way.
Put some respect on the Boss name. Was my first and second amp 😂
At least Boss is still around. JBC =Just Be Closed
@@wal2 So true. Boss will always be a decent starter amp although the Brazilian amps are really cost effective
I like all your videos man, from cheap amps like this one to the quad 4 15” kicker box. Good stuff all of it
Actually I like watching the cheap flea market amp videos more than the good ones.
The amp chips are internally bridged. So u can not bridge them anymore but u can atleast put them in parallel and run a 2ohm or 1ohm sub as u have 2x current capability.
15w sounds like cd6283cs chip which is a really popular flea market chip and were immensely popular back in the 90s in 3rd world countries where expensive amp chips were out of reach for the bottom end..
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I love chips amps just not when shoved into a huge heatsink lol
@@bassblaster505 these days u can have tda7498e class d chip for few bucks and a simple push pull powersupply in this box will make an immensely powerful 100w+100w class d. Tpa3255 ic can make an immensely powerful amplifier in a tiny package. 3 of them will easily fit in this enclosure and make 300w/4 + 600w sub channel. Making the 50v powersupply in this would be more difficult than slapping 3 chips following the schematics on datasheet.
@@KuntalGhosh oh yeah you aint telling me anything i dont already know lol. Last summer i was going to build a stereo subwoofer amp for my bedroom from some dev Tpa3255 boards but decided not to because 2ohm home subwoofers are hard to find and 4 ohm NOT 10%THD was only like 200W or so. By the time i get some 48-56V 350W+ PSU's and a case id be cheaper to buy a Dayton Audio 500W plate amp
Back when I installed in japan (95-2006) everyone was looking for house brands to sell. I picked up some of this JBC hot mess to test. 1000w amp was almost 2 1/2 foot long and had a 6 inch board in it. It couldn’t even light a light bulb. The subs were all off center and either stuck or grinding, and the components crossovers popped the caps at 35 watts. Iirc the shipping was more than the junk.
Lotsa room inside for other stuff 🧐
We had one of these in a display cabinet to show the difference between them and an Orion.
Great use of the amp!
Glad it was well packaged there, looks mint...
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Talk about 90s styling. Sometimes I miss it ... was way more interesting than the current trend of boring, plain, and "reserved."
Comeon bro. I have a legit old school rf amp x2 with original box and manual in absolutely mint condition I keep asking you to bench. Then you got this POS . Lol, always much love Big-d! Fully support regardless brother.
I do amps like this completely out of curiosity.
Lol.. guts look like an L.A. Sound amp from Fingerhut catalog I ordered back in the day. JBC I remember seeing ads of these, Rockwood, Targa, Kenford, Thump in magazines like AS&S, CA&E & CSR. I look back now at those ads and it seems the mags kind of went downhill after seeing all these low budget brands throughout. Still great memories of course having the mags still is great 👍 missing quite a few still though. There is budget bangers and budget hangers good to see you telling what is trash and what is decent.
I’m hoping LA Sound is better
We need a video of the worst or biggest let down amps. That would be cool 😎
Thanks for the suggestion
This has to be one of the best tests I've seen you do. 30 watts?! Lmao!
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I’d love to see some Hott Setup amp tests. That was my first “good” amp back in the day. Thanks for the videos!
I think Hott Setup was an Orion rebranded for Circuit City. Good Amp! If any one knows, be free to correct me.
@@BG-ti9hb A few years ago I tested a Hott Setup 2.50 and put the video on my site. I also tested an Orion 250SX. The boards are almost exactly alike. The filter caps and the rail caps are different. The Hot Setup used two axial lead 3300mfd rail caps(for a total of 6600mfd) lying flat on the board, while the 250SX used four radial lead 2200mfd rail caps (for a total of 8800 mfd) stood on end. If I remember correctly the power output was almost identical. The only other difference I could see is the Orion 250SX had the "Phantom Power" plug to power an outboard equalizer and the Hott Setup 2.50 did not. I found these to be the easiest amps to work on because of their symmetrical boards. I wish Bernie Boland was still designing amps. I liked his amps best.
Yeah they were decent amps
Big D, can you tell us the numbers off the IC's? Curious as it looks like there were two of them, one for each channel?
I remember those amps in the flea market back in the 90s. They were pretty light in weighting remember correct. Anyways, great video Big D👍👍
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wow all the power of a factory radio! For a lot more 🤑
You can tell a lot about an amp by the fuse(s) installed. I learned this the hard way back in the day when I first started in car audio. I found a (new in the box) no name amp that was listed as 1k watts (max) at my local flee market. Now I honestly knew it wasn't gonna be 1,000 watts but I hoped it was gonna be at least 500 watts. Bought it for like 30 bucks (major red flag right there). Brought it home and took it out of the box and found a 5 amp fuse. I had a Jensen amp that was listed as 300 watts that had a 25 amp fuse in my car already. Needless to say that was when I started insisting on seeing the fuse rating on any amp I was considering buying. Btw, the 1k amp for 30 bucks was complete junk. I had a Sony boombox that was as loud as that 🐂💩 amp. Hey, you live and you learn.
I’ve seen some of these with extra fuses not connected to anything inside. So you can’t always go by fuse, but if there’s only a 5A fuse, then you prob know it’s head unit power
@@wal2 🤔 i hadn't come across a fake fuse scam back then so that never really crossed my mind. I guess it could be possible to even find something with an over rated fuse installed or listed in the specs. Either way I lucked out the majority of the time on what I bought back then. Got what I paid for and I was cool with that. Just had to use your best judgement and past experiences.
Most of the time the fuse rating times 10 gets you in the ball park. I never heard of a fake fuse scam, but I would not put it past these crooks.
@@wal2 Those were "spare" fuses. They just "forgot" to mention that.
@@OneRoomShed Boy, you give the customer a "spare" fuse and they think you are trying to pull one something over on them.
I was waiting for the shot of the 340Watts written on the amp, with Dick Riculous saying.....
"Are they just plain lyin' to ya? Lyin' to ya? Lyin' to ya?"
😂👍
Do an amp dyno on that old Sherwood 240… and that pyramid gold series that had the angled heat sinks. I’d love to know what those things put out back in the day.
I’m sure I’ll test one eventually
i remember a girl i dated in high school had a head unit in her camaro that said "Alphine" on the tape slot door. looked just like the alpine font too. twin post cassette deck. this amp would be a nice match for it.
I have one of their amps new in the box! Will show it in future episode
@@wal2 no way. an Alphine amp? nos? ive never seen that name before or since. that would be amazing. ill be watching for it
Wow! Those were some serious flea market numbers!! Lol. And a 5 amp fuse?!? Ready to bump hardcore 😂😂🤣
I’m getting old and could not see that
Desperately looking for a decent 6 ch amp about 70 75 watts a channel to run for highs . Since you test all these amps I figured you would no. Can you recommend anything . That is true to what the amp claims it has !? Thank you ..
Awesome video brother.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
once I saw that 5amp fuse I knew this was going to be good LOL
Flea market special for sure!
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Ive got what I think is a rebadge of this somewhere. I got them from those traveling electronic sale deals that used to go town to town. Some if the amps they carried were actually pretty good but a lot were like this. I did find some of those KONAKI dd clones at one before those got popular online.
TBH I miss living in an area with swap meets.
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My first amp was in 94, it was a purple blue anozided jbc 150×2 that ran 2 mtx blue thunder 12s! 😂 But it banged!!!
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Damn the wudi amp had better power lol! Also the mini d amp has higher numbers ! Also I have it in my studio and love it to test coax and mids for sound and see who is best
When I get my new amp, I have a flea market amp to send you, A Preformance technique ICBM Giant supposedly rated for 2500+2500W its a two channel digit monoblock class D
Oh man that’s a beast for sure
Sadly I had a jbc, always shut off due to being too hot. What's even more sad is this amp was way better than my other swap meet amp jdl.
That's crazy it had like a 20 to one heat sink to circuit board ratio. It should never get hot
I didn't have that exact model. But I never did open it up either. I want to say it had more power than 16 watts. Since I had two 12in kicker comps on it. Maybe 50 watts on a good cold day. I bet whoever broke into my car and stole it was pissed later. Lol
I remember a guy in high school powering (2) 8’s with a Punch 30. We now know it was only 16w/ch. Sounded decent back then
@@wal2 well this was my first stereo. I then overloaded my usaccustics zed built one of the smaller ones no less. But honestly when I was in high school and doing this no one had over 1k in one amp. Some times not even in total. Price per watt was expensive. That's why when I did finally get a ppi art series used a300.2 I had no problems using that as my subwoofer amp and running under 2 ohms. Probably power wires as thick as dental floss too. I had so many horrible installs until it finally happened and I blew an amp. It couldnt be any of the cheap used amps buy an infinity kappa 255a 5 channel I saved up for and bought for around $1k from crutchfield. I felt stupid and sick to my stomach lol.
I had a jbc 1000 watt amp my mom bought for me from a swap meet in the 90s and I opened it up all of it would fit in that case and probably have room I kinda wish I kept it so u could test it 😆
That’s why it’s so interesting to see these still around. You’d think most people would’ve tossed them
Ya that's a ways off the 340 watts , where's the beef indeed. Makes jVc look good!
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It sounded good to me, I put it up on my surround sound and my tweeters were happy.
It actually didn’t sound bad at all
Need to find some of the old Hot Shots flea market maps and test them
Fo sho!
that's perfect for my tweeters
Might be cool for a case to install a better amp into......?
Hey man, I really enjoy your channels and was wondering if I could send you an amp to test? It’s a mtx road thunder 4ch
Not at this time, thanks tho
JCB-“Just Been Conned” 🤣
Good one!
It's the Price Is Right music that gets me.😂
I wish I could find some cheapo amps like this to test. Don't need too big of a power supply or resistors to do them.
Hey Big D did I miss the test on the Audiobahn?
Not repaired yet
Thats hilarious. I remember someone had one of those 12s back in the 90s junk for sure
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Nice video my friend
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Looks like the pyramid shadow amp inside
Smaller version of small junk!
That orange fuse is 40amp. Sounds like maybe something isn't working inside properly or maybe some dial pots need tuning. That power is barely more than a factory stereo.
That was a 5 amp fuse. You could see it clearly at the end of the video
The color got me too. It’s a 5A
I remember seeing adverts for JBC (mainly for their speakers) in Car Stereo Review, never owned any. I remember a set of their component sets being reviewed and the reviewer commenting that it was odd that they came with a active crossover (as in before the amplifiers.) This amp is so bad, I almost wonder if it's a knock off given what I read on their other stuff. However, I've always heard to avoid brands with names that sound like other brands, (such as Rockville or Techwood.) JBC gets double the points as they sound like both JBL and JVC. I also just realized that I was not subbed to the extras channel, time to fix that!
I was just about to watch stranger things but figured I'd refresh RUclips one more time
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I think this unit wins the contest of the biggest scam amp I've seen on this channel.
I've seen JDL and Kingwood, JBC is a first. Let's see how it goes!
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Man I’d love to send you this Lanzar HTG888 I’m using in a fun build some day. I have 8 6.5 Pyle subs I’m going to isobaric for s and g’s. It would be a fortune… it’s a half surfboard. Probably cheaper to Amazon you one haha
J B C. Just be cool... My ears popped from the vacuum of opening the cover
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You should have put a bigger fuse in it so we could watch the magic smoke come out.
Try test amp Bluetooth 2.1 please
The amps at the end look like Alphasonik FA series??? Maybe??
Good guess but nope
I had some JBC speakers back in 1997 lol
Hooked up to a panafonix?
Man, I guess those guys were nice. They were nice to get people's money at the time.
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Sad to say that the 5A fuse was still overrated. I feel sorry for anyone that got ripped off by buying one of those. Makes a modern-day Boss or Blaupunkt amp look viable, which is sad.
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Can't believe JBL would make an amp like that!
Oh wait...
That's a TRUE flea market amp!
Just be Curious
That power would be golden if that were a tube amplifier 😂
I sold this exact model amp on Ebay couple years ago for $5 at auction. It originally had a 10a fuse so I knew the 340w was bs lol. Typical korean made low budget 90s amp
“Just be cool” That what you say to your friends when the cops pull you over
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was that a 5amp fuse?
Thats what I thought, but orange is 40amp supposedly.
Yes you can clearly see it later in the video after the Dyno runs
@@wal2 I posted my comment before I finished the video. Keep up the awesome work.
I was waiting for it big d I've ran a cross amp like this and as soon as the bottom plate comes off I see wire's it just junk and even some of the names make you cringe
Would be hilarious if he opened up the amp and it had some old mediocre head unit in there! Basically, it was but just a circuit board.
18 times 17 is 306 and that is 90% of 340. Not bad for an old amp, stop hating on it.
Let's just call it a sound quality amp
Just Be Cool when you realize you got played
Ok Big D when you play smoke jacket blues you need to get into character and make yourself look like a certain peanuts character playing a piano
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WT Heck?.. look inside of that damn amp 😂😂
amplifier IC's inside is my guess
JBP- just be Pissed
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I remember this crap in the Car Audio Magazine ads. JBC Just Be Cool. RockWood, a word mix between Kenwood and Rockford. I’m surprised there wasn’t an Alfine or Clarioff.
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JBC stands for Just Been Conned.
It should be named "JGS" Just Get Screwed.
JBC stands for Just Big Case.
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J-UST
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C-HEAP
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Thats all i wanted back in the day, just for it to be cheap. haha.
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Ah yes...JBC. The black sheep of the family of JBL and JVC.
Baaaaad 😝
Looks like blown/leaky caps to boot. Not expecting any better performance with a recap tho
Maybe anudda wattaroo!