@@1andonlyjoeyb534 No actually they are not. They are not a rebadged SI amp. Big D and HI Fi Vega both did separate reviews of those amps. They were cheap knock offs that looked pretty. However the components inside were not the high grade we have just seen here. They came know where close to rated power and sound quality was poor. It was a pretty enlightening episode on both UA-cam channels.
That's one of the nicest looking amps I've seen in a long time, and I've seen a lot. Reminds me of my old "ear candy" Linear Power amps I had when I was a kid. But prettier. It would be even cooler if they used the metal case componants on the power supply also, it would be even longer.
Who else had the thought of “that box could be used as a feeding spot for Beardie”? Anyone? Anyone? Just me? Fine I’m goin home then! Excellent work as always Wheelie
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Beautiful amp. I do love the SQ stuff. It does cost a lot, but compare it to a similarly powered home amplifier, and the price is not too bad for an amp capable of 4x150w in 8 ohms (certified), or 500w x2 in 8 ohms bridged.
Love my SIQ amps. Just nice clean power houses that look great! Great testing Dereck, love seeing what she actually does. I was only able to review their sound and not true power.
That’s really sweet looking insides I must say. Real good efficiency for Class A/B. Comes in a whoop ass case. It better sound good for that price! Go BigD! Stay safe mates!😊👍🏻😷
Why get a Krell, when you can get this! LOL! That amp is so well laid out and is some very pretty work indeed. As far as cost? $1200 is a DEAL! Getting those parts alone would cost you that much! I wonder if they make a Black Label version that has Esoteric parts in it? From what I can tell? This seems to be a great investment and a LONG term winner. Amps back in the day cost way more. This seems to be Budget if you ask me from what S.Q. amps use to cost to own. I like the fact they did not bother with crap in the signal path that need not be there. I have to admit, I would like to see a Crystal or Quartz Glass or Automotive rated glass cover for a Signature model of this amp in the future. Maybe in a future statement release? What amazes me is that the price of a S.Q. Amp is a Con at this point? You just can't get this level of parts quality at this price so I don't see how the price is con! Its a FANTASTIC VALUE! Thanks for showcasing this Amp Big D!
Gotta love SI gear. I'm slowly building a complete SI build. So far I have a single SQL-15 and real soon their M25 tweeters. Wanting to get 2 of their amps.
Post what the overall system sounds like. I'm heavily considering them. Either 1 15 or 2 12s. Not a ton of power but they are very efficient. More sq with a little L. Sub(s) amps and possibly their components. Good luck on the build.
@@marckendrick3163 I would. Unfortunately the area I live in has seen a huge increase in crime and the city literally not doing anything about it at all. So I've decided to move my SI project from the car to home audio. Since this post, I've acquired the new TM65 mkIV's and the new M3 Carbons. But once I start that project and finish it. I will post my build. May just post a video of my build.
Damn. Sounds like areas of my city. Luckily I moved out to a more rural area but crime seems to happen if you run into a store for 20 minutes. I'm doing my research on them but everything looks like they have quality in craftsmanship. Hopefully the city cracks down on it. Florida is growing so fast here municipalities can't or won't keep up. Good luck to you and thanks for the update 👍
Have you thought about hitting up SI to see if they'd send you the other amps to test? They seem pretty straight forward with everything and I'm betting they'd try to fix/update anything that wasn't up to par for the masses. I'm saving pennies for a build with their parts, I can't wait to get ahold of all of it.
This speaker shop where I live has a bunch of old school amps and speakers. Fulton, sentrek, Pyle when they were made in USA, Blaupunkt, MTX, Audiobahn. They are a legit shop if you want me to give you info to Google them
@@RAW_Reality those numbers are completely irrelevant, there is no reference. What's why I said I waned to see the measurement results, not 2 irrelevant specs
@@minus3dbintheteens60 You do realize that the nature of your argument is literally amounting to paranoid delusions, right? What, do you think companies just claim things with there being no backlash if found to be inaccurate? I understand that marketing can be misleading at times, but you could learn to understand that with variances in technologies, testing methodologies, setup fluctuations, and everything that could be a variable that literally having a standard that actually says what it should be in most cases doesn't make it "completely irrelevant" because some walking doorknob with a YT channel says "it's 1% different than what they claim", for your singular and likely skewed "reference"... 😒
So would you put this amplifier in the same category as Mosconi AS / Zapco Z-AP amplifiers regarding it's SQ? I'm just getting into the SQ side and I feel like a dog chasing it's tail trying to even figure out where different class A/B amplifiers stack-rank, which processors are ideal etc etc. Thanks for another awesome video Big D!
Watching as my kids were falling asleep n suddenly dad exclaims with "holy shit that's massive!" Oops. That is a gorgeous amp n I've never seen 10k mf caps before. That's bannanas! Along with the efficiency that's an awesome amp fo sho! Thanks for buying to share with us folks.
As I mentioned before class A is 0.000001% THD and class B 0.003% THD from what I can remember in the 1980's, I have not seen 1 car amplifier that is lower than 0.01%THD. Where they get there classification from is anyone's guess. It is a class D amp at 0.03% THD. I have a LANZAR Heritage HTG668GBT that has lower THD, 0.01%. THD is the first choice for pure quality, then comes frequency response. The greater the lower and upper frequencies the more representation between.
The TO-3 Cased transistors are certainly an oddity for an audio amplifier but there are quite a few N channel Mosfets that utilize that design but I kinda dig it because it's old school.
They were used in pro audio applications for many years, Peavey and QSC used them into the 90’s before phasing them out in their switch overs to Class H and then to class D. T-03 was super common in instrument amplifiers for the power stage. Very durable and it’s sad they were phased out.
@BigD: We know that you're into that killah bass. We all love that. Using bookshelf speakers along with a gigantic sub, shows that you're interested in home speakers too. So, try this out for us, if you would: make some (3 or 5 pair) of speakers with various sizes of exciters mounted to matching scale-sized foamboard. Then, team those with a powered home sub. Test the frequency responses to see what combination from the various pairs is best. With exciters, do they benefit from bigger panels? Seems like higher power exciters would be able to "drive" bigger panels or reproduce lower tones, but I could be wrong. These components are super cheap, but we (your viewers) don't have any testing equipment to try to measure the frequency responses. If what you're powering doesn't make a flat response curve, it won't sound right. If that curves varies much (up and down the measurement scale), it won't sound right. Now I realize this is a bit off your typical testing regimen, but even if you measure subjectively at the clarity added by introducing a 2nd, 3rd, etc. pair of exciters to the show, it would be pretty cool. Since you like to mess with boxes, and the like, this might be interesting to you. Dayton Audio (and a few other companies) make a couple styles of exciter that utilize various power amounts as their intended input peak. From the styles I've seen, ribbons and pucks seem like the two most common technologies. Sometimes the pucks have feet that extend off them, but then you have multiple points of contact you have to adhere to the foam board, but whatever, if it works. Anyways, this might be a rabbit hole that you would get a kick out of, and have some great speakers when you're done. You can mount exciters to nearly any surface, but the foam board lets the voice coil in the exciter actuate the foam and vibrate it; similar to how a "cone" in a traditional speaker works. There have been some significant tests performed to see what surface works best, and the foam boards are cheap and very functional. I've actually bought a handful of bluetooth speakers that use this technology, and it's pretty amazing. Even tiny exciters can make hard surfaces bump.
@BigDWiz if you freeze the video at 11:31 you can see that some of the mosfets arent soldered correctly might give you troubles in the future might wanna double check on the soldering.
The Price Isn't To Bad At All, For Being A Class A/B Amp With The Output It Has, Considering It's Quality All The Way Around, From It's Car Show Appearance, Sound Quality And About The Perfect Overall Measurements...
@@wal Indeed it is..! Pretty darn sexy lol..! I use to run US Acoustic back in the early 90s then switched over to PPI art series line of amps & to be honest I think my US Acoustic amps had a much warmer sound...
I dont nor will I ever understand the "do it bump do" section of the vids. We almost always hear the exact same thing since our sound quality all depends on what were listening to the vids on. Mostly phones I'd guess. Which will not let us know anything at all about them other than they do play. Lol. Love the rest of the content though. As always. Thanks for another great test vid.
Thanks. There is no way to portray sound quality across a YT video, but I still put it in the video. Because if I don’t, people complain about not having a sound segment. I can’t win 😎
@@wal your dead on brother. I wasnt saying the first part to you. That was to the people who whine for it. The second part about loving the content was to you. Lol. Thanks for another great vid.
Scrolling scrolling then this comment mentioned power acoustik farenheit , then I remembered i had a power acoustik farenheit subwoofer back in 2004 , i think i was about 16 around that time
@@therealdealtech8460 yeah they were the big thing around then, that and those neon lit ones. I still have one of those Class X Fahrenheit amps new in box. I think I’ve still got a few other amps of that era sitting in my basement but nothing quite as fancy.
I would like to see a side by sid comparison with th Chinese amp you did a few months ago in a video. Just to show the difference between high end components and the knockoffs. Just an idea for a future video. They both look great but who care if they don't bump do
that amp does look good ..... yeah i think it worth the money ..... you paid what you get ..... i'm glad the sound quality is great .... and i'm glad your honest ..... cause i'm into quality
Im just finishing up my truck(2dr Ford f150 2010) build with all the old stuff I had. Rockford t2 6.5 and t1 5.25 in the doors running off old alpine mrv-f300 which i need to replace, these are 4 channels im looking at. Just ordered damore e.700X4 sale ($250) audio control d800x4($500) stereo integrity s1q 125.4($479) the looks are killer d4s jp34 ($249) I seeing some good deals on those. Any thoughts would be great. goal is just loud but with sq
I like your tests / watch them often ... Do you know if the "Amp Dyno AD-1" can still be purchased ? I asked "D'Amore Engineering" several times via email but got no answer ...
Nice power and a beautiful looking amp and love the size. It would hurt my feelings if someone had this sloppy just hooked up in a trunk instead of car show quality installed
I want a stereo integrity SIQ 200x4 for my front midbasses and subwoofer, and SIQ 75x4 for my wideband drivers and rear mini coaxials in my SQ system. As well as a Helix 6 in 8 out DSP for my SQ needs.
About the oversized speaker terminals. I assume. Imagine running your front stage with this amp. And its allll the way in the back of a station wagon, or some other long chassis vehicle. Which i think Stereo integrity acttualy did for one of its demo cars. Big gage speaker wire plus looong runs. No voltage loss or signal loss. 👍
For my PC I use a Bowers & Wilkens 300 watt powered 8" sub. An ancient pioneer 1000watt home stereo, with a pair of 3" Aiwa speakers, and a Sony center channel speaker with 2x3" drivers. That all receives input from the headphone jack of the tv. The TV is fed an HDMI signal from my pc, which includes the 2-channel stereo signal. My pioneer uses dolby technology to let me hear voices through the center, and music through the right/left main speakers. I live in an apartment, so I can't shake the walls much. When I watch sci-fi movies it does shake the floor. Since I have the free back-channel on the amp for another pair of speakers, I'm curious what exciters would sound like hung from the ceiling..
Hook it up to some really good home speakers that will either shine, or reveille subtle flaws. I use either some Yamaha ns1000s, or JBL Summit. I compare everything to my Krell ksa 250 or a very old Russian tubed tube amp.
Thank you for the awesome video, beautiful amp you got there. How would you compare this amp to the Boston Acoustics Gt2300 in sound quality and efficiency? I know you tested the Boston Acoustics several years back and was wondering if you remember the sound quality of the Boston Acoustics as it was made by Mosconi back then.
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I like that they named it based on the 4 ohm rating. I think all 4 channels should be like that
With the current price of lumber that box may be more expensive than the amp.
LOL! Almost true!!
I'm fat
My wall build is almost to a halt!😑
@@MrViper7121 I'm fat and bald
No kidding!
SO cool. Glad someone is still making amps that perform and look like this
They look like my Helix amps that you can still buy today
And the high-end helixes are all made in Germany and the very affordable for what you get
Actually these amps are on ALIBBA. SI just puts the badge on em and markets them.
@@1andonlyjoeyb534 how do you find them on ali? what did you search?
@@1andonlyjoeyb534
No actually they are not.
They are not a rebadged SI amp.
Big D and HI Fi Vega both did separate reviews of those amps.
They were cheap knock offs that looked pretty.
However the components inside were not the high grade we have just seen here.
They came know where close to rated power and sound quality was poor.
It was a pretty enlightening episode on both UA-cam channels.
That's one of the nicest looking amps I've seen in a long time, and I've seen a lot. Reminds me of my old "ear candy" Linear Power amps I had when I was a kid. But prettier. It would be even cooler if they used the metal case componants on the power supply also, it would be even longer.
Who else had the thought of “that box could be used as a feeding spot for Beardie”? Anyone? Anyone? Just me? Fine I’m goin home then!
Excellent work as always Wheelie
👌🤣👍
That was NOT my first thought 🤣
Nick has got a winner there! 😎👍🏻
Thanks BigD for grabbing one and sharing the results 😁👍🏻
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You are 100% with the class AB and Grey Poupon analogy.
Beautiful amp. I do love the SQ stuff.
It does cost a lot, but compare it to a similarly powered home amplifier, and the price is not too bad for an amp capable of 4x150w in 8 ohms (certified), or 500w x2 in 8 ohms bridged.
This is SO true!
It's on sale for 799 now...crazy prices for beautiful equipment on their site, right now
Love my SIQ amps. Just nice clean power houses that look great! Great testing Dereck, love seeing what she actually does. I was only able to review their sound and not true power.
Reminds me of old-school amps from back in the day; Tru, Phoenix Gold, Audio Art, Linear Power, etc. Very pretty amp with some nice-looking internals!
And Brax
Damn Linear amps we're definitely popular. RIP 1990's
I wouldn't group TRU in with the old school.
That’s really sweet looking insides I must say. Real good efficiency for Class A/B. Comes in a whoop ass case. It better sound good for that price! Go BigD! Stay safe mates!😊👍🏻😷
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Why get a Krell, when you can get this! LOL! That amp is so well laid out and is some very pretty work indeed. As far as cost? $1200 is a DEAL! Getting those parts alone would cost you that much! I wonder if they make a Black Label version that has Esoteric parts in it?
From what I can tell? This seems to be a great investment and a LONG term winner. Amps back in the day cost way more. This seems to be Budget if you ask me from what S.Q. amps use to cost to own.
I like the fact they did not bother with crap in the signal path that need not be there. I have to admit, I would like to see a Crystal or Quartz Glass or Automotive rated glass cover for a Signature model of this amp in the future. Maybe in a future statement release?
What amazes me is that the price of a S.Q. Amp is a Con at this point? You just can't get this level of parts quality at this price so I don't see how the price is con! Its a FANTASTIC VALUE!
Thanks for showcasing this Amp Big D!
Just got the 125.4. These are on sale @ SI now and are quite the deal.
Gotta love SI gear. I'm slowly building a complete SI build. So far I have a single SQL-15 and real soon their M25 tweeters. Wanting to get 2 of their amps.
Post what the overall system sounds like. I'm heavily considering them. Either 1 15 or 2 12s. Not a ton of power but they are very efficient. More sq with a little L. Sub(s) amps and possibly their components. Good luck on the build.
@@marckendrick3163 I would. Unfortunately the area I live in has seen a huge increase in crime and the city literally not doing anything about it at all. So I've decided to move my SI project from the car to home audio. Since this post, I've acquired the new TM65 mkIV's and the new M3 Carbons. But once I start that project and finish it. I will post my build. May just post a video of my build.
Damn. Sounds like areas of my city. Luckily I moved out to a more rural area but crime seems to happen if you run into a store for 20 minutes.
I'm doing my research on them but everything looks like they have quality in craftsmanship. Hopefully the city cracks down on it. Florida is growing so fast here municipalities can't or won't keep up. Good luck to you and thanks for the update 👍
@@marckendrick3163 of course. And u are welcome. I live in Portland, Or. Enough said.....lol
That efficiency was good - comparable to a Dclass amp 😳
Cool how it’s two boards inside but not strapped 👍🏻
It’s good because it’s only two channels. That’s only half the amp.
@@ryanb8736 Uhhh, no. It's two amps in one chassis. If you use both sides, each side is going to be equally efficient.
That thing is GAWW-JUSS!!!!!
I think you just showed me my new favorite brand.
I have the 125 x 4 version of this amp. It’s very good! I love class A / AB amps for home and car!
What's the class a / b thing?
@@vincenthofer287 hi, it’s power supply design.
Thank you haris Javed.
@@vincenthofer287 anytime! You are welcome!
This is one of my favorite in your collection. Beautiful amp. I bet it sounds good!!🤛🤛
Have you thought about hitting up SI to see if they'd send you the other amps to test? They seem pretty straight forward with everything and I'm betting they'd try to fix/update anything that wasn't up to par for the masses. I'm saving pennies for a build with their parts, I can't wait to get ahold of all of it.
Big D deserves some focal K2s for the sq test
Beautiful amplifier
Probably the prettiest amp I’ve ever seen . Too pretty for any of my vehicles 😂😂
Beautiful amp, great numbers, nice efficiency👍🏼👍🏼
Agreed
That is some serious eye candy!
Just needs some VU meters and it would be near perfection 😝
@@wal mcintosh for the win
This speaker shop where I live has a bunch of old school amps and speakers. Fulton, sentrek, Pyle when they were made in USA, Blaupunkt, MTX, Audiobahn. They are a legit shop if you want me to give you info to Google them
That dude is a monsta!
Shole ilz!
I'd love to see the noise and distortion measurements results for this bad boy.
Yeah......might not be so good
@@justkiddin1980 what??? Are you cray cray? It’s no class D big dummy……
It's not like they have a website where you could go to find these numbers out or anything... 🙄
THD: 0.03%
S/N ratio: 91 dB
@@RAW_Reality those numbers are completely irrelevant, there is no reference. What's why I said I waned to see the measurement results, not 2 irrelevant specs
@@minus3dbintheteens60
You do realize that the nature of your argument is literally amounting to paranoid delusions, right? What, do you think companies just claim things with there being no backlash if found to be inaccurate? I understand that marketing can be misleading at times, but you could learn to understand that with variances in technologies, testing methodologies, setup fluctuations, and everything that could be a variable that literally having a standard that actually says what it should be in most cases doesn't make it "completely irrelevant" because some walking doorknob with a YT channel says "it's 1% different than what they claim", for your singular and likely skewed "reference"... 😒
😱😱😱😱
The mule is getting an upgrade!
Fido, Give me a noise ...
Nah wouldn’t go for this...not for that price
It doesn’t matter what you did Doug! 😉💀
This amp is so pretty😍
Some class A stuff finally.
You're the best doe
This is the most beautiful amp I can think you have shown Big D. How would you compare the sound to any other amp you've used??
So would you put this amplifier in the same category as Mosconi AS / Zapco Z-AP amplifiers regarding it's SQ? I'm just getting into the SQ side and I feel like a dog chasing it's tail trying to even figure out where different class A/B amplifiers stack-rank, which processors are ideal etc etc. Thanks for another awesome video Big D!
The ultimate Midbass amp. Bridged down to two channels.
Watching as my kids were falling asleep n suddenly dad exclaims with "holy shit that's massive!" Oops. That is a gorgeous amp n I've never seen 10k mf caps before. That's bannanas! Along with the efficiency that's an awesome amp fo sho! Thanks for buying to share with us folks.
It's a beast!
As I mentioned before class A is 0.000001% THD and class B 0.003% THD from what I can remember in the 1980's, I have not seen 1 car amplifier that is lower than 0.01%THD. Where they get there classification from is anyone's guess. It is a class D amp at 0.03% THD. I have a LANZAR Heritage HTG668GBT that has lower THD, 0.01%. THD is the first choice for pure quality, then comes frequency response. The greater the lower and upper frequencies the more representation between.
The TO-3 Cased transistors are certainly an oddity for an audio amplifier but there are quite a few N channel Mosfets that utilize that design but I kinda dig it because it's old school.
They were used in pro audio applications for many years, Peavey and QSC used them into the 90’s before phasing them out in their switch overs to Class H and then to class D. T-03 was super common in instrument amplifiers for the power stage. Very durable and it’s sad they were phased out.
I have the SI 75.4 and 125.4 amps. Getting ready to power them. They are heavy.
Me too! Love them!
Have u hooked them up yet ? What are you running the amps to ? Just ordered the 125.4
@@Josh2024Garcia They'll be powered in a day or two. My front stage is SI m25 tweeters, SI M3 midrange and SI tm65 in front/rear doors.
Hey, I have the same speaker setup as you. What are you running 75x4 and 125x4 too specifically?
Absolutely amazingly breathtakingly stunningly beautiful
Never expected 1:50 to be so satisfying lol
@BigD: We know that you're into that killah bass. We all love that. Using bookshelf speakers along with a gigantic sub, shows that you're interested in home speakers too. So, try this out for us, if you would: make some (3 or 5 pair) of speakers with various sizes of exciters mounted to matching scale-sized foamboard. Then, team those with a powered home sub. Test the frequency responses to see what combination from the various pairs is best. With exciters, do they benefit from bigger panels? Seems like higher power exciters would be able to "drive" bigger panels or reproduce lower tones, but I could be wrong. These components are super cheap, but we (your viewers) don't have any testing equipment to try to measure the frequency responses.
If what you're powering doesn't make a flat response curve, it won't sound right. If that curves varies much (up and down the measurement scale), it won't sound right. Now I realize this is a bit off your typical testing regimen, but even if you measure subjectively at the clarity added by introducing a 2nd, 3rd, etc. pair of exciters to the show, it would be pretty cool. Since you like to mess with boxes, and the like, this might be interesting to you.
Dayton Audio (and a few other companies) make a couple styles of exciter that utilize various power amounts as their intended input peak. From the styles I've seen, ribbons and pucks seem like the two most common technologies. Sometimes the pucks have feet that extend off them, but then you have multiple points of contact you have to adhere to the foam board, but whatever, if it works.
Anyways, this might be a rabbit hole that you would get a kick out of, and have some great speakers when you're done. You can mount exciters to nearly any surface, but the foam board lets the voice coil in the exciter actuate the foam and vibrate it; similar to how a "cone" in a traditional speaker works. There have been some significant tests performed to see what surface works best, and the foam boards are cheap and very functional.
I've actually bought a handful of bluetooth speakers that use this technology, and it's pretty amazing. Even tiny exciters can make hard surfaces bump.
You gotta put this thing head to head vs. a Tru Billet v2 4 Channel.
The bulk caps are all Rubycon even though it states Stereo Integrity. The Transistors used are Onsemi.
Onsemi is good stuff
@BigDWiz if you freeze the video at 11:31 you can see that some of the mosfets arent soldered correctly might give you troubles in the future might wanna double check on the soldering.
Those are through-soldered from the other side - where they likely appear shiny and well flowed.
Awesomeness, absolutely love it. Ill be working on acquiring the 3k and this 4 channel along with the 75x4.
The Price Isn't To Bad At All, For Being A Class A/B Amp With The Output It Has, Considering It's Quality All The Way Around, From It's Car Show Appearance, Sound Quality And About The Perfect Overall Measurements...
Always enjoyed class AB topologys... Pretty warm sound..!
Yeah man and this amp is gorgeous
@@wal Indeed it is..! Pretty darn sexy lol..! I use to run US Acoustic back in the early 90s then switched over to PPI art series line of amps & to be honest I think my US Acoustic amps had a much warmer sound...
I dont nor will I ever understand the "do it bump do" section of the vids. We almost always hear the exact same thing since our sound quality all depends on what were listening to the vids on. Mostly phones I'd guess. Which will not let us know anything at all about them other than they do play. Lol. Love the rest of the content though. As always. Thanks for another great test vid.
Thanks. There is no way to portray sound quality across a YT video, but I still put it in the video. Because if I don’t, people complain about not having a sound segment. I can’t win 😎
@@wal your dead on brother. I wasnt saying the first part to you. That was to the people who whine for it. The second part about loving the content was to you. Lol. Thanks for another great vid.
That looks amazing and it is still a better value than some of the other flagship sound quality amplifiers like The audison thesis
Great video. Big D you are one RAD dude!!!
Beautiful amp design reminds me of the old school power acoustik 1 ohm and Fahrenheit class X amps
Scrolling scrolling then this comment mentioned power acoustik farenheit , then I remembered i had a power acoustik farenheit subwoofer back in 2004 , i think i was about 16 around that time
@@therealdealtech8460 yeah they were the big thing around then, that and those neon lit ones. I still have one of those Class X Fahrenheit amps new in box. I think I’ve still got a few other amps of that era sitting in my basement but nothing quite as fancy.
I have to get 1 for my collection! Indeed
Whats up BIG D!! Man I would love to see you test one of the SoundQubed U1 series amps. Love you're videos. Keep up the good work old school!
This Jethro is on this like ticks on a June bug in July.
I would like to see a side by sid comparison with th Chinese amp you did a few months ago in a video. Just to show the difference between high end components and the knockoffs. Just an idea for a future video. They both look great but who care if they don't bump do
That Pullin that protective tape off the glass was soooooooo satisfying to watch.. BEST PART OF THE VIDEO!! IMHO.. thank you Derek... 😊
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Can you please do an amp dyno and Review of the Alpine KTP-445U power pack 4-channel amplifier? I believe it does more than it says.
When you where pulling the plastic off of the amp, I felt like I was watching Rhianna dancing
I guess that's a good thing...
Cutting into that Honda powered Ford money with this one Big D! 🤣
A good class A amp, really high quality output and input stage, glass epoxy circuit board, high quality parts , proper heat decipation beats Class D
1:48-2:00 The most satisfying ASMR I've experienced ever.
Even if you could play different music it's still coming to UA-cam and being heard on whatever0 device you're using.
It do look nice doe!
that amp does look good ..... yeah i think it worth the money ..... you paid what you get ..... i'm glad the sound quality is great .... and i'm glad your honest ..... cause i'm into quality
Lmk when you have a yard sale, I'd open the piggy bank ☺☺☺☺
Im just finishing up my truck(2dr Ford f150 2010) build with all the old stuff I had. Rockford t2 6.5 and t1 5.25 in the doors running off old alpine mrv-f300 which i need to replace,
these are 4 channels im looking at.
Just ordered damore e.700X4 sale ($250)
audio control d800x4($500)
stereo integrity s1q 125.4($479) the looks are killer
d4s jp34 ($249)
I seeing some good deals on those. Any thoughts would be great. goal is just loud but with sq
She's big and nice looking. Btw still waiting on the do it bump doe shirt.
Pretty amp, and pretty cheap for a class A/B amp. D'Amore Engineering and Sinfoni amps are $8k-13k.
I like your tests / watch them often ...
Do you know if the "Amp Dyno AD-1" can still be purchased ?
I asked "D'Amore Engineering" several times via email but got no answer ...
I like that blue.
Nice power and a beautiful looking amp and love the size. It would hurt my feelings if someone had this sloppy just hooked up in a trunk instead of car show quality installed
That's a beautiful piece, for open show.. and. SQ systems.
Has the T03 transistors like Tru Technology , Mmats, and Linear Power.
TO3 is just the casing, not the transistor itself. I was corrected before, just sharing the info love 😎
I want a stereo integrity SIQ 200x4 for my front midbasses and subwoofer, and SIQ 75x4 for my wideband drivers and rear mini coaxials in my SQ system. As well as a Helix 6 in 8 out DSP for my SQ needs.
About the oversized speaker terminals. I assume.
Imagine running your front stage with this amp. And its allll the way in the back of a station wagon, or some other long chassis vehicle. Which i think Stereo integrity acttualy did for one of its demo cars. Big gage speaker wire plus looong runs. No voltage loss or signal loss. 👍
Ive been wanting this amp and do a blow thru box with the stereo integrity 21in subwoofer in my f150
For my PC I use a Bowers & Wilkens 300 watt powered 8" sub. An ancient pioneer 1000watt home stereo, with a pair of 3" Aiwa speakers, and a Sony center channel speaker with 2x3" drivers. That all receives input from the headphone jack of the tv. The TV is fed an HDMI signal from my pc, which includes the 2-channel stereo signal. My pioneer uses dolby technology to let me hear voices through the center, and music through the right/left main speakers. I live in an apartment, so I can't shake the walls much. When I watch sci-fi movies it does shake the floor. Since I have the free back-channel on the amp for another pair of speakers, I'm curious what exciters would sound like hung from the ceiling..
A 1000 watt home stereo? To cool, myself and others I'm sure would dig more info on your pioneer, share more,. Thank you
Go Derek
Is there a capacitor needed if i use the 1500 watt amp with the sql 15 woofer on my audi a4 b8 without a 2nd battery ?
If you tested both sides it would have given some insight into quality control and maybe component matching.
Stereo integrity won't be a company to worry about with that.
Beauty of an amp, hope you get your hands on teh 1500.1 or 3000.1 at some point when they start shipping.
Best amp I've ever seen...
This amp is great for a processor or component speakers NO Xover!
What a gorgeous amplifier. Reminds me of expensive audiobaughn. Looks a little like my TRU amps. 👍👍
The plastic peal 🐬
Excellent video
Pretty amp but price is insane. Thanks for bringing us another amp Big D.
Y’all done spent up dat Stimmy?
Wondering why they dropped thenprice to 700?
Did he say $1299...whoosh! 🤔 Looks amazing
Absolutely amazing amplifier
Super, Greetings from Poland.
This seems too beautiful to even go into a car.
It is a work of art
288 x 4 to the midrange whewww!
Hook it up to some really good home speakers that will either shine, or reveille subtle flaws. I use either some Yamaha ns1000s, or JBL Summit. I compare everything to my Krell ksa 250 or a very old Russian tubed tube amp.
You should try out a Rockville db16 and see how it does 👍
Holy crap that's beautiful!
Would love to see a sampling of the eventual uses for that pine box. I know what I’d use it for.
What is your opinion on the Mosconi AS 200.4 also 200 watt rms @ 4ohm vs this amp, but priced even higher at a staggering $1550.00
It's $779 now.. a possible grab?
Interesting, unique amp. Thanks for sharing.
Look good but it's low powe for that high price.. y preferred a crossfire 720 ore crossfire vr 602 more power and sound quality as well
Thank you for the awesome video, beautiful amp you got there. How would you compare this amp to the Boston Acoustics Gt2300 in sound quality and efficiency? I know you tested the Boston Acoustics several years back and was wondering if you remember the sound quality of the Boston Acoustics as it was made by Mosconi back then.
I love that Boston amp too. I doubt you’d be able to tell a difference in SQ, honestly
Oooh so pretty 🤑🤑🤑🤑 Those shiny copper cap covers are nice looking