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<blockquote data-quote="akheathen" data-source="post: 7261904" data-attributes="member: 629234"><p>and, some boss amps were total crap........ this is too hard of a question for anyone to sit down and answer. aside from the big list, many amp names are up and down in quality/performance. knock your "1"s down to a 2, and put the bad-azz ones at one. for instance, McIntosh and X-tant amps are a timeless 1, but are the cream of the crop tangible "exotics", in the sence, that you can pony up a good amout of cash to own one, they are pretty much the highest quality, but not many are willing to buy them, due to the cost/output ratio. then there are the 2 types of "name-riders" type 1, would be rockford, for example. they mass produce mundane amps that just work as rated in the best case scenario, but also, they regularly throw the bad-azz "cheaters" or underrates in the mix to keep the hub-bub floating around about the freind's friend, who had one that put out 3x rated rms. then. there is the other type of name-rider, like pioneer, sony, soudstream, and i hate to say- kicker and directed. they have an awesome reputation for building some of the baddest amps in the mass-market, yet, current products are nothing more than average, at best, and usually made cheap. then you have the high tech average&gt; bult, like jbl, jl, and some models of others, such as phoenix gold, rf, and so on. if you take that high tech out of the equasion, then there really isn't anything worth writing home about with them. you get the pic.... it comes down to what you are looking for in the amp. we can pick out the complete crap, but i'm not sure that will help that much, lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="akheathen, post: 7261904, member: 629234"] and, some boss amps were total crap........ this is too hard of a question for anyone to sit down and answer. aside from the big list, many amp names are up and down in quality/performance. knock your "1"s down to a 2, and put the bad-azz ones at one. for instance, McIntosh and X-tant amps are a timeless 1, but are the cream of the crop tangible "exotics", in the sence, that you can pony up a good amout of cash to own one, they are pretty much the highest quality, but not many are willing to buy them, due to the cost/output ratio. then there are the 2 types of "name-riders" type 1, would be rockford, for example. they mass produce mundane amps that just work as rated in the best case scenario, but also, they regularly throw the bad-azz "cheaters" or underrates in the mix to keep the hub-bub floating around about the freind's friend, who had one that put out 3x rated rms. then. there is the other type of name-rider, like pioneer, sony, soudstream, and i hate to say- kicker and directed. they have an awesome reputation for building some of the baddest amps in the mass-market, yet, current products are nothing more than average, at best, and usually made cheap. then you have the high tech average> bult, like jbl, jl, and some models of others, such as phoenix gold, rf, and so on. if you take that high tech out of the equasion, then there really isn't anything worth writing home about with them. you get the pic.... it comes down to what you are looking for in the amp. we can pick out the complete crap, but i'm not sure that will help that much, lol [/QUOTE]
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