Use with amps? Does anyone have any experience using this stereo with amps?
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We use ours with Wakeboard tower speakers, and are going to add an amp (but haven't yet). Anyone have any comments on the skip factor over large waves??
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This system does require an amp/receiver. Mine is a 200W Yamaha. I use mine solely for rear surround.
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I running a 700 watt Arc audio amp into a sealed enclosure of 1.5 SQF And it sounds great. Has as much SLP as my old Alpine R12 ported, maybe even more? Now I am thinking about getting the NS V3 12' 2500 watt Sundown sub! After enjoying the SA 12 I need to hear the V3 and maybe scare some old people while I'm at it! Lol
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I haven't personally tried pairing it with a headphone amp, but the one built in can be boosted to I think 300mA, and it also has 2 separate line outs, one which is stereo 1/8" and the other is digital/coax, both are totally uncolored and should work really well with any sort of amp. I pair it with my SE846 in ears and it sounds amazing.
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I have a pioneer vsx-1121K and have the A9's Bi-Amped, hitting these with 220W per channel. Even hitting these speakers with this amount of power they still aren't working hard. I'm looking into getting either a different receiver or a seperate amp to make these guys really shine...
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Fellow aftermarket Pioneer stereo user here, they work fine just plugging straight into it. Havent had to bust out a spare amp yet.
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Hi, I can't say for sure if an amp would help or not. But I can tell you I was less than impressed with the bass when used with my stereo (no ext. amp). I read a lot of good reviews about the sound for the price and they were correct about the price but the sound was very disappointing. I will upgrade when I can, you get what you pay for. Hope that helps
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No additional amp, just the 16 watt per channel amp in the stock stereo I bought. The sub-woofer output of the stereo would not work with speakers this small, so if that is your intent, you'll want much bigger speakers.
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I have not tried this but from the manual it describes utilizing both the A and B speaker sets. If this is similar to the stereo receivers of the 70s-80s, you would not want to use 4 ohm rated speakers as what normally happens is the speakers get paralleled and the resistance/impedance drops to 2 ohms and that the amp would never be able to handle without shutting down. If I remember, I will test this and comment further but everything I have read says this should work with 8 ohm rated speakers.
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I have not try that yet. But since you brought it up, I will test it. How the unit has to work with an amp.
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I would NOT recomend this amp for a Sub Amp, at most it would be useful for small door speakers X2 , it would only push out about 25 - 35 RMS clean watts, That's equal to a powerful head unit.
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I've had many amps powering different kinds of subs , to b honest I've had everything from jl to alphasonic and all preformed same to me and I love lot of bass in system. Just make sure you match amps output to sub's . I have a sound stream powering all my full range speakers and alphasonic mono on sub's now ...hits hard
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I would recommend wiring for 2ohm setup. @ 1ohm it might be pushing the speakers to the limit. Power acoustic amps are inexpensive because they have a lot of distortion so don't Max them out. I'm running 3 @ 2.6 ohms on a hifonics 1500w and they bang!
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I connected mine to a stereo amp and fed everything through it. the sound is great !!
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Right now I have this running to my sub amp. I use the radio for my mains. Just have to adjust the levels to make it sound right.
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In my opinion that amp is not stable at that impedance. I have 3 of those amps in 1.33ohm config and 1.5 ohm config.I would either invest in a different amp or buy 2 one for each sub.
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I wouldn't hook up an inferior amp to a sub like this... I would go either JL audio or sundown brand max 2000 Watts mono block.. I personally use an SAZ1000 and it works perfectly