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I love these old school tests also, I do however have to disagree. Early 90’s I had 12 15’s on 4 crunch 600’s. 16 yellow top interstate batteries. 3 240 amp alts. Demo monster for those days. 1 12 on 200 watts has never cut it for me. Lol.
I started in car audio at that time, a little after, but it was astonishing. I'm assuming the merge of woofer to subwoofer changed the power parameter, but rembering 2 12"kicker comps on a punch 150 felt like it was kicking sweet off your face in a ext cab ranger . 300 to 500 watts was slapping especially when them 4th order bandpass boxes emerged .. I still have a load of jl audio equipment from then. needless to say, I'm blessed to have witnessed that generation
@@Van1018s That is one helluva system you had there!. I was more stating for the teenager on a budget to get a little bass to cruise the streets with your friends. 200 watts and a sub and you were jamming. Of course competition or extreme builds required more cone area and power. The same teenager on a budget today will have over 1K in watts and more cone area with way more xmax subs.
@@clittle1559 I know what you mean, I heard a system with a Punch 150 on 2 15s in a hatch system that put my single sub to shame. Back then as a teenager a Punch 150 and 2 subs was not in my budget.
@@clittle1559 car audio has changed dramatically. I’ve been very into it since 1991. 1991 till about 2000 was car audio to me. Hell now I spend 3 times on my electrical what I spend on amps and speakers. 8 runs of 1/0 power and ground. Quad 370 alts. 210ah cmax. Give me a 700 watt amp and a piece of 4 gauge. Lol.
Love the old-school content. My first build was a lifted 1980 Toyota SR5 using a Concord HPL-515 Dolby B/C HU, one of if not the first Cerwin-Vega 6x9's with the phenolic dome tweeters mounted into the heavy duty metal mesh grills. Big magnets, cast aluminum frames, pretty impressive for the day (back when CV was a respectable name). I powered them with a Linear Power HPM100. It was the bomb! Love for you to get a hold of that amp am and test it. Rocked the streets with it back in the day!
My first non junk amp was a Sony XM series, it was a XM-502X with 50w rms x2 at 4ohms and young me back in 98 loved it ha ha. I actually still have it sitting in a cupboard where its been for years, im running a lot more power these days :)
Nice amp! Back in the day that was a perfectly capable amp for a couple of door or dash speakers. Back in then most head units only put out 2-5 watts per channel so having 20x2 was a nice step up. I had a Jensen made unit back around 93-94 that put out 20x2 and it did a good job of pushing a set of 6x9's pretty hard.
@@envisionelectronics Only thing this amp(let) has going for it, compared to 15Wx4 headunit built in amp chip, is cooling. Which might make a difference.
I once had a XM-3020S for the highs of a fully analog 3 way setup. It was very cheap, used and old back then already. But it did a great job for its rating. Not quite the same age, but it reminded me of this. Nice video ❤
Fond memories of Sony gear from that period. There was an amp even smaller than that one (xm-2025 maybe?) and I had some ES amps and head units with the copper chassis and screws.
I have had a few of the XM-2025 amps. At the time, they were the smallest 2 channel amp that was bridgeable. Had one on an 8” Lanzar sub mounted behind the center console in my car along with a set up Cerwin Vega components, a Sony external crossover, and a Sony deck that had both pre-amp inputs and outputs! So the pre-amp outputs went to the crossover, then had mid range and tweeter signals going back into the deck. 2 channels of the deck ran the 5 1/4” mids and the other 2 channels ran the tweeters. It was a VERY clean, be it low power, setup. I love those old school Sony XM amps, even if they don’t make rated power!
7.5 amp fuse... Big Dummy Math = 75 Watts RMS. Before watching the video. I did have a Sony 4 channel back in the early 90s it was actually reconditioned. 45 W RMS x 4 used it for my internal door speakers.
When I got my first car in 85 I bought a Craig Power play 60 watt amp for my door speakers. Not the cleanest but a ton better than the 3 Watts per channel than the head unit put out. Later moved up to a Zapco 150. Still was impressed with the Craig at the time. Lol Back to the subject, Sony always made solid products but we're more lower middle grade compared to JBL, Alpine, Kenwood and Rockford.
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I love these old school tests!! Sony made some amps that put out some clean power. I had a few XM-2025 amps in the ‘90s because it was the smallest bridgable amp you could buy at the time. Thanks Big D for taking us back down memory lane!!
Being a 46 year old man ....i love to see these test on the old school stuff ...being a teenager in the 90s ....the car audio sceen back then it cost some bank to get true 500watts ..but if you saved yo dough and bought quality like rockford or orion you could get pleanty loud ... i had a kenwood amp i picked up at a pawn shop that was a preformance standard 100A i believe it was and i never knew how much power it put out but i ran a jl audio 15 in a subzone slot ported box in the early 2000s in an extended cab s10 and bridged it got down ....was always curious what power it made ......but i have never saw one since i let the one i had go....with the truck ....
I have a Sony magazine from 1996 and I’ve always been intrigued to know how these amplifiers actually perform especially being Sony. Sad it did not do rated. I expected it to do little more than rated especially for the price for good headroom. 🤷🏻♂️
@@soundsofnature7015 Even with the little voltage he had it’s just 20 watts. It’s not like it’s pulling 1000 watts or anything like that. It still should have done rated regardless. I’ve seen amplifiers with less volts and still maintain a good headroom.
Love these old school amp dynos , and these older XM series Sony's. They weren't really powerhouses compared to the other competition amps of their time but they had a great range , sound , and super clean power. For their price range I think you had an amp that competed with Audio Art ( I know , I know..). My first set up was a Sony xr5790r tape deck to this model XM250 playing in TriMode to 6.5" Sony 3 ways and a JBL gt120 sub. Sounded great.
I used to really like Sony, used to have older Sony models when I was a teen, before I even had a car. Still have an Xplod 222w (ran that on 3 mismatched 10s in highschool, nobody believed what I had until I showed them). Also had an Xplod 444w (traded that, wish I kept it), and an Xplod EQX-404 (still have it, but no longer works).
In comparison, I had the XM -250 (50 x 2), and I've never seen flat-pack capacitors used, especially ones that were 10,000mfd at 35v. eBay listing in reply for example. The 250 had them, and they packed them in that hump in the middle of the heatsink.
That would have been on display right next to Coustic and JBL at Circuit City back in the day. All that is missing is a JVC CD Player that has Graham Nash speaking every time you press a button.
Sony was using ic chips in their home audio back then too lmao the STK ICS, they were used in PA gear too in their defence but yeah certainly wasn't high end stuff was an all in one unit of the lbt series
Have the previous series from 93 its 60x2 with 25 amp fuse after about 6 months on my "RF S1" 12s slid a 30 amp fuse ran it for years until I went in the Service... Still have the amp, working 💪 just fine. 25 amp fuse now... lol back in the day you didn't need battery banks and the amps in general were solid as long as you stayed away from Pyramid and most Pyle's 🤷 my take on the cake I was able to eat in my youth 🙂
I had a couple Sony blue 250 watt amps from Walmart clearance back in the '90's. I had two hooked up to 2 12" pyramid subwoofers. I built a custom box, and put it a 1989 mustang hatchback. That bass 🔊 was hitting hard as f**k,and sounded really good for it being a budget build. If you happen to run across one, I would like to know if it does rated power.
Hey Big D have you ever dynoed any old school Sherwood amps from the late 80s or early 90s? I have an SCP-1002 that drives a no name 3 way speaker box in the back seat of my Firebird for the past 30+ years. I think it’s rated 120X2 bridged. Would you think it would do anything close to that?
My first system consisted of 2 15in kicker comp in a box that was made 4 4 15's( never cut the other 2) the box was so big it couldn't stand up in a 86 jeep Cherokee on 2 kenwood kac 921 ( I still have one) and a BP 240 sherwood ( could not find a 240, but I have a 180 BP)on the Mtx terminator box with 2 15's 2 5in midrange and 2 horn tweeters. We didn't have a lot of affordable power back then, but we made up for it in box size, thanks to kicker in around 94 with their 1st gen Solo-Barics that claimed you didn't need a lot of space for big bass, it didn't impress me, I bought a 10in solo baric in a q logic box and clipped the shit out of on the first day, took it back to Barics stero trading post in maple shade Nj and traded that for a 1988 jl audio dual 12w5's dual 8ohm in a non carpet box made to specs, it was so big it took up the whole trunk in a 1990 cougar. Now I have a 12in triple stack of punches, but they still don't get as low as my W5's did. What we didn't have in power, we made up 4 in ingenuity
Sony products have always been alright. But that little amp does seem to bump a bit but not to the extreme by a long stretch of the imagination. RCA’s are on point though! Love the vid!
I always wondered what output these era Sony Amps put out I've had a few, bit different Too these and was always disappointed lol, as always your videos never disappoint 👌
Listen to that clean class ab or probably with heavier bias on A even damn the first track was clean, nice speakers too. I still have a clarion massive purple 150w rms (I think VNET amp) I'd send it in if it didn't cost so much from Australia lol but it kills even my jl hd series for top end clarity and smoothness sounds gorgeous. And jl know how to make a class d amp
I have a very similar amp but it's a darker gray almost a gun metal. I think it's the same model number? But might be mistaken. I also have the black and red 150w in my collection😊.
Hey Big D. When you talk about THD, at what point could a person even notice distortion? Would be an interesting test to see at what level of THD people start to actually hear the distortion. Also, would be interesting to see what frequency range an amp can actually handle. IF an amp says it does 20-20k, does it really? Just a thought, love the videos!
I remember someone was selling a Sony XM-7020 for $40 bucks back in the 90's. I ran home to grab $40 bucks but it was gone before I even got home I bet.
A Stereo shop that no longer exists anymore since the early 2k's, when you bought a pair of speakers like 6.5in for ya vehicle, you were given that amp for free.
I still believe the quality of watts back in the day were way different then now. Don't get me wrong there are quality amps today, In my opinion amps were built with more heart and soul then
Sony amplifiers were never known to heave a lot headroom or power I owned a car audio store .We sold Sony ,mainly CD players The amplifiers there was no demand For them . As far as high powered Decks go .Back then they started making higher powered decks . Sparkomatic made 1 good deck and it was high powered.Concord had the HPL-550 .That came out in 1985 . It had 15 wpc RMS 25 watts max They all had High power decks What was a game changer was the Pioneer MOSFET decks . Those things actually sounded like a small amplifier When it came to Walkmans,CD players VHS/Beta and headphones Sony was a leader Speakers and amplifiers Nope
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Your old-school content is awesome. It's fun when the new stuff does like 10k watts but the old stuff has character!
New stuff 😎 bluffs too😂 ....ol stuff pays trick's on em😂
Had this amp with a 'pull out' deck in a pull out bag. Powered by a small 30 Ah 12 volt battery pushing 6x9's.
@@houseofpain3580 your pull out game was strong!!!lolz
Love the old school dynos and showcases. Oh how far we have come. A Punch 45 on one sub was good enough in the early 90s.
I love these old school tests also, I do however have to disagree. Early 90’s I had 12 15’s on 4 crunch 600’s. 16 yellow top interstate batteries. 3 240 amp alts. Demo monster for those days. 1 12 on 200 watts has never cut it for me. Lol.
I started in car audio at that time, a little after, but it was astonishing. I'm assuming the merge of woofer to subwoofer changed the power parameter, but rembering 2 12"kicker comps on a punch 150 felt like it was kicking sweet off your face in a ext cab ranger .
300 to 500 watts was slapping especially when them 4th order bandpass boxes emerged .. I still have a load of jl audio equipment from then. needless to say, I'm blessed to have witnessed that generation
@@Van1018s That is one helluva system you had there!. I was more stating for the teenager on a budget to get a little bass to cruise the streets with your friends. 200 watts and a sub and you were jamming. Of course competition or extreme builds required more cone area and power. The same teenager on a budget today will have over 1K in watts and more cone area with way more xmax subs.
@@clittle1559 I know what you mean, I heard a system with a Punch 150 on 2 15s in a hatch system that put my single sub to shame. Back then as a teenager a Punch 150 and 2 subs was not in my budget.
@@clittle1559 car audio has changed dramatically. I’ve been very into it since 1991. 1991 till about 2000 was car audio to me. Hell now I spend 3 times on my electrical what I spend on amps and speakers. 8 runs of 1/0 power and ground. Quad 370 alts. 210ah cmax. Give me a 700 watt amp and a piece of 4 gauge. Lol.
All the xm series were really good. The signal to noise ratio on them were fantastic
@crawfishbuffett665 Awe still upset your Realistic booster wasn't all it was supposed to be back in your firebird.
I would have been happy to get this back in the 90s. I would have connected two 6X9s to it.
Really enjoyed the way you rolled into the smooth jazz shooting around the amp. Well timed, awesome little amp for the time
Love the old-school content. My first build was a lifted 1980 Toyota SR5 using a Concord HPL-515 Dolby B/C HU, one of if not the first Cerwin-Vega 6x9's with the phenolic dome tweeters mounted into the heavy duty metal mesh grills. Big magnets, cast aluminum frames, pretty impressive for the day (back when CV was a respectable name). I powered them with a Linear Power HPM100. It was the bomb! Love for you to get a hold of that amp am and test it. Rocked the streets with it back in the day!
My first non junk amp was a Sony XM series, it was a XM-502X with 50w rms x2 at 4ohms and young me back in 98 loved it ha ha. I actually still have it sitting in a cupboard where its been for years, im running a lot more power these days :)
Nice amp! Back in the day that was a perfectly capable amp for a couple of door or dash speakers. Back in then most head units only put out 2-5 watts per channel so having 20x2 was a nice step up. I had a Jensen made unit back around 93-94 that put out 20x2 and it did a good job of pushing a set of 6x9's pretty hard.
Noooo. This amp came out in 1995 and headunits were 12-15W x 4 then. Same as now.
@@envisionelectronics Only thing this amp(let) has going for it, compared to 15Wx4 headunit built in amp chip, is cooling. Which might make a difference.
Simple clean and reliable for the long run. New gear is good but old school is so cool
I once had a XM-3020S for the highs of a fully analog 3 way setup. It was very cheap, used and old back then already. But it did a great job for its rating. Not quite the same age, but it reminded me of this.
Nice video ❤
Cheers, all I have the xm235 right now and getting ready to use it for my fronts and the fuse is a 15amp on the one I have that's what it calls for
Ps is there a way to send a few amps to get tested thanks again
I dig the old sony stuff. It sounded great.
Fond memories of Sony gear from that period. There was an amp even smaller than that one (xm-2025 maybe?) and I had some ES amps and head units with the copper chassis and screws.
I have had a few of the XM-2025 amps. At the time, they were the smallest 2 channel amp that was bridgeable. Had one on an 8” Lanzar sub mounted behind the center console in my car along with a set up Cerwin Vega components, a Sony external crossover, and a Sony deck that had both pre-amp inputs and outputs! So the pre-amp outputs went to the crossover, then had mid range and tweeter signals going back into the deck. 2 channels of the deck ran the 5 1/4” mids and the other 2 channels ran the tweeters. It was a VERY clean, be it low power, setup. I love those old school Sony XM amps, even if they don’t make rated power!
Those old Sony amps were really nice back in the day! I had a couple powering 2 pairs of components. Sound quality was very good!
This brings back memories. A Sony XM-6020 was my first high quality amplifier. Thanks Big D!
7.5 amp fuse... Big Dummy Math = 75 Watts RMS. Before watching the video. I did have a Sony 4 channel back in the early 90s it was actually reconditioned. 45 W RMS x 4 used it for my internal door speakers.
I always love the old school stuff.
When I got my first car in 85 I bought a Craig Power play 60 watt amp for my door speakers. Not the cleanest but a ton better than the 3 Watts per channel than the head unit put out. Later moved up to a Zapco 150. Still was impressed with the Craig at the time. Lol
Back to the subject, Sony always made solid products but we're more lower middle grade compared to JBL, Alpine, Kenwood and Rockford.
Love this tests on oldschool amps, makes me remember good old days when i was 18, and had my car audio sound.... Please continue in OldSchool....
Very cool. I have a couple of the smaller version, the XM 2022
They have molex plug for power and speaker. Also chip amp as well.
I’ve owned the XM-2025 and for such a small amp, those little 20x2 amps were awesome at the time!
Sony No Baloney. But wait, there's more! Not only are we going to give you this high-powered Sony 20 watt x 2 amplifier but if you act now we will include the matching Sony 7 watt head unit pmpo.
I love these old school tests!! Sony made some amps that put out some clean power. I had a few XM-2025 amps in the ‘90s because it was the smallest bridgable amp you could buy at the time.
Thanks Big D for taking us back down memory lane!!
Being a 46 year old man ....i love to see these test on the old school stuff ...being a teenager in the 90s ....the car audio sceen back then it cost some bank to get true 500watts ..but if you saved yo dough and bought quality like rockford or orion you could get pleanty loud ... i had a kenwood amp i picked up at a pawn shop that was a preformance standard 100A i believe it was and i never knew how much power it put out but i ran a jl audio 15 in a subzone slot ported box in the early 2000s in an extended cab s10 and bridged it got down ....was always curious what power it made ......but i have never saw one since i let the one i had go....with the truck ....
I love the way that series amplifiers sounds
Taking me back to my childhood! This with a Sony discman Velcro’d to the center console with a dac cassette converter rocking the mall parking lot
Ran 3 of these on my fronts years ago. One on Peerless tweeters , one each on silver flute 6.5s. Wonderful sound
I have a Sony magazine from 1996 and I’ve always been intrigued to know how these amplifiers actually perform especially being Sony.
Sad it did not do rated. I expected it to do little more than rated especially for the price for good headroom. 🤷🏻♂️
If he had the proper voltage the amp would have easily done rated. He even said that.
@@soundsofnature7015
Even with the little voltage he had it’s just 20 watts. It’s not like it’s pulling 1000 watts or anything like that. It still should have done rated regardless. I’ve seen amplifiers with less volts and still maintain a good headroom.
@@Bassotronics these amps never where about power but more about clean sound.
Also, it's very old. Which doesn't make these things perform any better
Love these old school amp dynos , and these older XM series Sony's. They weren't really powerhouses compared to the other competition amps of their time but they had a great range , sound , and super clean power. For their price range I think you had an amp that competed with Audio Art ( I know , I know..). My first set up was a Sony xr5790r tape deck to this model XM250 playing in TriMode to 6.5" Sony 3 ways and a JBL gt120 sub. Sounded great.
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I had a few of those amps. They were great for tweeters in the ‘90s.
I used to really like Sony, used to have older Sony models when I was a teen, before I even had a car. Still have an Xplod 222w (ran that on 3 mismatched 10s in highschool, nobody believed what I had until I showed them). Also had an Xplod 444w (traded that, wish I kept it), and an Xplod EQX-404 (still have it, but no longer works).
Wow blast from the past!!! I had one of those for some 6X9's on the back deck of my 98 dodge neon lol.
Great video. Gotta love the classics👍🏼👍🏼
I've still got a re-ferb Sony EXM 302 still in use I bought around '94.
Hey, those amps were great for Tweeters, 3-1/2 dash", 4" speakers and those old Surface Mount Rear Deck speakers....
In comparison, I had the XM -250 (50 x 2), and I've never seen flat-pack capacitors used, especially ones that were 10,000mfd at 35v. eBay listing in reply for example.
The 250 had them, and they packed them in that hump in the middle of the heatsink.
Gorgeous little amp with a proper heatsink and color. I am warm seeing this massive 20wpc amp. I know, weird.
I remember those. Crutchfield sold them. I have a an older version of that amplifier, the XM2020 I believe.
We sold these in the mid 90's when I worked at Walmart in high school. Most people bought the cheaper Jensen though and the Bazooka 8" sub.
I was always a fan of Sony amps. They produced great products during that time period.
well it's good to know that these old Songs of this era put out what they say. And since their power specs are true. their thd and S,/N is true too.
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That would have been on display right next to Coustic and JBL at Circuit City back in the day. All that is missing is a JVC CD Player that has Graham Nash speaking every time you press a button.
Nice to remember where we can from, as far as car audio goes.
Man. Shoulda done the xm3040. I ran a 3 way front stage and 2 12" kicker comps off one in my samurai and it was awesome.
Sony was using ic chips in their home audio back then too lmao the STK ICS, they were used in PA gear too in their defence but yeah certainly wasn't high end stuff was an all in one unit of the lbt series
I'm kicking it with a Sony XM-N502 from 2016. Tight little amp. I have it to a single 12 alpine bassline. Just a small exo-boom. 😊.
I had afew of those back in the late 90s!!!
Per request, do some of that old Wally World amp called: Road Gear, looking foward to it.
Some super clean sounding amps. THD was so low. Modern amps in that price range are far away from that.
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I,m really digging the D4S's are they really detailed Like focal or morel
I would like some enclosures like that for my dash. not sure cosmetic. but easier movable and installed when I need to change vehicles.
Have the previous series from 93 its 60x2 with 25 amp fuse after about 6 months on my "RF S1" 12s slid a 30 amp fuse ran it for years until I went in the Service... Still have the amp, working 💪 just fine. 25 amp fuse now... lol back in the day you didn't need battery banks and the amps in general were solid as long as you stayed away from Pyramid and most Pyle's 🤷 my take on the cake I was able to eat in my youth 🙂
i fund a m3 in my stash of amp.. nice to see some spec on that amp =) its werd built inside.. look handmade lots of wire and stuff
Seems like it's doing a great job pushing those speakers. Bet it sounds great in person
I had a couple Sony blue 250 watt amps from Walmart clearance back in the '90's. I had two hooked up to 2 12" pyramid subwoofers. I built a custom box, and put it a 1989 mustang hatchback. That bass 🔊 was hitting hard as f**k,and sounded really good for it being a budget build. If you happen to run across one, I would like to know if it does rated power.
I'd love to see you test an old Sony mobile es xm-7557 my favorite amp ever and one of the few things in life I regret selling.
im running 2 bridged 4040's on my front stage, a/d/s/ 320/is & S6's
Seenbthe Sound Barrier 300x2 amp on the list after the Sony . I've always got good clean power from Gold or Sliver Sony and Kenwood.
Hey Big D have you ever dynoed any old school Sherwood amps from the late 80s or early 90s? I have an SCP-1002 that drives a no name 3 way speaker box in the back seat of my Firebird for the past 30+ years. I think it’s rated 120X2 bridged. Would you think it would do anything close to that?
My first system consisted of 2 15in kicker comp in a box that was made 4 4 15's( never cut the other 2) the box was so big it couldn't stand up in a 86 jeep Cherokee on 2 kenwood kac 921 ( I still have one) and a BP 240 sherwood ( could not find a 240, but I have a 180 BP)on the Mtx terminator box with 2 15's 2 5in midrange and 2 horn tweeters. We didn't have a lot of affordable power back then, but we made up for it in box size, thanks to kicker in around 94 with their 1st gen Solo-Barics that claimed you didn't need a lot of space for big bass, it didn't impress me, I bought a 10in solo baric in a q logic box and clipped the shit out of on the first day, took it back to Barics stero trading post in maple shade Nj and traded that for a 1988 jl audio dual 12w5's dual 8ohm in a non carpet box made to specs, it was so big it took up the whole trunk in a 1990 cougar. Now I have a 12in triple stack of punches, but they still don't get as low as my W5's did. What we didn't have in power, we made up 4 in ingenuity
Would be fun to see some GAS audio amp dyno test :)
The struggle was real, but I sure miss it.
Nice little tweeter amp from Japan
It’s a uPC2506 made by NEC and rated for “40W”. So obsolete that datasheets are hard to find.
Sony products have always been alright. But that little amp does seem to bump a bit but not to the extreme by a long stretch of the imagination. RCA’s are on point though! Love the vid!
I always wondered what output these era Sony Amps put out I've had a few, bit different Too these and was always disappointed lol, as always your videos never disappoint 👌
This is a RIOT I still have a few of these IN BOXES🤣😂
good top of the line head units in 1994 had 20 watts times 4.
Listen to that clean class ab or probably with heavier bias on A even damn the first track was clean, nice speakers too. I still have a clarion massive purple 150w rms (I think VNET amp) I'd send it in if it didn't cost so much from Australia lol but it kills even my jl hd series for top end clarity and smoothness sounds gorgeous. And jl know how to make a class d amp
Would be cool to see a parts Express home plate amp tested
Would you have the old Sony Xplod 222 amp to test? I'd like to see it on the dyno LOL!!
I have a very similar amp but it's a darker gray almost a gun metal. I think it's the same model number? But might be mistaken. I also have the black and red 150w in my collection😊.
D4S crossovers almost the same size as the Sony amp. There’s tons of nostalgia inside that Sony though.
I was waiting for the 1ohm test after the video
Compared to the 5 watts a head unit had back in the day this would have been a pretty sweet upgrade...
Hey Big D. When you talk about THD, at what point could a person even notice distortion? Would be an interesting test to see at what level of THD people start to actually hear the distortion. Also, would be interesting to see what frequency range an amp can actually handle. IF an amp says it does 20-20k, does it really? Just a thought, love the videos!
Noticeable distortion with pure tones is about 1% but 10% with music.
Half an hour at 5% is a splitting headache but you really won't hear it. You might puke though.
I remember someone was selling a Sony XM-7020 for $40 bucks back in the 90's. I ran home to grab $40 bucks but it was gone before I even got home I bet.
That’s all we had way back
Bro i have a 350w sony xm 552zr amp can it run the sony xs-nw1202s
Subwoofer
You need to test a Kraco EQ Booster. LOL
Bringing the head BigD!
I have a Sony EXM-502 that I'd love you to Dyno!!
Lol i one of those with a pioneer rear speakers type ts-1750.
In a Daihatsu applaus.
Lol bring back times.
My is blue .
Hello.. could you review new pioneer ts1675v3 speakers please?
I had a 2x30 model that was decent for running my 6x9 speakers.
A Stereo shop that no longer exists anymore since the early 2k's, when you bought a pair of speakers like 6.5in for ya vehicle, you were given that amp for free.
Cool video
I thought i better stick to this channel of yours..
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But..... D4S here too! 😢
Where would your fans go now😢
I had one of those, like 20 watts. it was 25 bucks at the Sony Outlet. Sounded good but not horribly powerful.
I still believe the quality of watts back in the day were way different then now. Don't get me wrong there are quality amps today, In my opinion amps were built with more heart and soul then
sounds great
I had one like this but blue fins
Had one of these in 98
At the beginning I thought 75a fuse 😳...then notice 7.5a 😂
Mbe or Bobby hook this man up with some new bookshelf boxes!!!👍🏿
I have that old Sony somewhere
Nice 👌
I couldn't afford something that fancy at that time. My budget was a firm $100 😂
Sony amplifiers were never known to heave a lot headroom or power
I owned a car audio store .We sold Sony ,mainly CD players
The amplifiers there was no demand
For them .
As far as high powered Decks go .Back then they started making higher powered decks .
Sparkomatic made 1 good deck and it was high powered.Concord had the HPL-550 .That came out in 1985 .
It had 15 wpc RMS 25 watts max
They all had High power decks
What was a game changer was the Pioneer MOSFET decks .
Those things actually sounded like a small amplifier
When it came to Walkmans,CD players VHS/Beta and headphones
Sony was a leader
Speakers and amplifiers Nope