- Jul 6, 2014
- 9,267
Good morning fellas. I'm in the market for my third amp for the truck. Let me give you the low down. I originally ran the door speakers off the headunit until I added the sub. The headunit did an alright job but couldn't really keep up. So I added the first amp which was a blaupunkt unit. Severely underrated that unit put out a clean 85 watts rms according to a few o-scopes. That lasted 3 years and finally started going into protect mode but holy crap did it have clean power. I replaced that with a JBL unit that never sounded as good and ran roughly 70 watts rms cleanly. That made it less than a year before it went into some random state where the output would drop and get all distorted at a normal volume that happens to be a listening level when you're on the highway and is getting progressively worse to the point where I can't even enjoy it anymore.
So now we're here. I would like to know what you reccomend as far as a 4 channel amp that I can fit under the drivers seat that pushes around 60-80 watts rms. I would prefer class A/B only because having the mini amp in the envoy I could hear the difference between that and class D but... I would imagine that a good class D sounds fine. I also don't want anything crazy expensive either. Under 400 or so. I was looking at Rockford, focal and MTX on their more entry level stuff but I overall wasn't extremely impressed spec wise... I know it isn't the be all end all but it's a decent way to go when you can't listen to them all.
Any input is much appreciated.
So now we're here. I would like to know what you reccomend as far as a 4 channel amp that I can fit under the drivers seat that pushes around 60-80 watts rms. I would prefer class A/B only because having the mini amp in the envoy I could hear the difference between that and class D but... I would imagine that a good class D sounds fine. I also don't want anything crazy expensive either. Under 400 or so. I was looking at Rockford, focal and MTX on their more entry level stuff but I overall wasn't extremely impressed spec wise... I know it isn't the be all end all but it's a decent way to go when you can't listen to them all.
Any input is much appreciated.