Just a bit of warning, I had this amp for a set of tweeters and it lasted 1 week. I contacted Taramps and they told me contact the closest US distributor, in my case North Carolina. What I found out is, for warranty repairs you are responsible for covering the cost of shipping to and from taramps. So i'd have to spend $60 for shipping for repair... I chose to spend my money elsewhere.

@leroycolejr6626

8 ай бұрын

I had a taramp 800.4 to catch fire. I try to warn people about those amps

@groundshakersociety6637

8 ай бұрын

Had mine running tweeters and a set of 6.5 with zero issues. How much signal did you send to it?

@_NegusFreeman

8 ай бұрын

My 800x4 from Amazon been workin strong for a few years now..

@scottouimet2865

8 ай бұрын

Yea I've had an 800.4 running 2 3.5" tweets and 6.5" midranges since 2020 and it's getting around 3-4v signal

@theprimepeter3460

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like user error

One of the 1st times I've seen the Taramps not make or exceed the rated power, but still did well for a small Amp with the low price 👍

I think most people have issues with amps, when they just don't know what they are doing. They mosy likely run them with low voltage because they didnt upgrade their electrical, or clip the hell out them.

I got the Taramps 400 bass you and Parker recommended for a small setup and it hits 2 PB svc 12’s really well. thanks for the review, I would had overlooked it if not for you guys.👍

That would be a very nice little board for custom home projects, such as a simple 2.1 PC setup etc.

I have one of these in my workshop hooked to my tv , powered by a computer power supply and running 4 bookshelf speakers and one cerwin vega 12 .

I have been running this little amp for about two years and love it! running one 12'' kicker and two in ceiling/wall bose house speakers! and two small compact bookshelves in my sprinter van. What's crazy is I have it wired to a 12v cigarette line which was just to test but didnt pop any fuses or get hot so I never ran any dedicated wiring lol

@angelvip2474

8 ай бұрын

That just means power you are getting very low wattage from the amp. Your current consumption is limited by what can be supplied by the cigarette lighter. But if I t plays well enough for your needs then it's a win.

I have this amp in my Mercedes slk230, which has two 5.25 subs behind the seats and 2 tweeters andb2b6.5bin the doors.bthe tweeters and subs arebfactory the 6.5 are kicker 2way. The deck is a jvc. My system sounds great for what i have in it. And being so simple. I love this amp. Have owned it for around 4 years. No priblems what soever. Glad you did this dyno. I was wondering how many watts it actually pushes. Thanks for your great work. Inever thought the amp was doing its rated power. But its great for my 2 seater.

I have this amp on a set of MB Quart Discus 5X7's and an Alpine SBR-S8-4. Does a respectable job for the price and size/efficiency of the amp.

Ive been running several of these the past 2 or 3 years without any failures. They are perfect for offroad setups because i can place them in water/dust proof containers and run 4 speakers and a sub off of them and not worry about the heat so much. They take a lickin and keep on kickin.

@briandonovan5434

8 ай бұрын

I used to do that for my Suzuki samurai years ago, def for water and mud. Use a few grommets with silicone and they’ll go under water for at least two days until you could get the tractor running and get it unstuck!

I also have had one of these amps die within a few months of buying but I also have another one that I bought the same time that still works so it's the toss of a coin if you get a good one .. second one is still going strong and I've had it for over a year and a half

I literally installed this amp Friday. I had a bass 3k on no gain overpowering a scar sub. Put this in and was shocked at how much power it puts out. And in case your wondering I have it on 1 ohm and it’s holding strong. I wasn’t worried because it’s my third taramps amp and they always handle low ohm. Definitely a lot of amp in a super small package.

@abacusmaxx1804

8 ай бұрын

👍 yup! Two 6x9s + Rockville 12" tube🎉

I have this amp powering some alpine 6.5's, been working great. It actually replaced that cheap massive blaupunkt 4ch amp that died lol. Best part is, this amp can be mounted anywhere in tight spaces so it saves a-lot of room.

@nearchd504

8 ай бұрын

I have a blaupunkt two channel amp, which gives 110w at bridged, from the 2010 . And it's powering a 8 inch very soft suspension 150w subwoofer in a sealed enclosure.

I have two liquid cooled 15-inch excrusion on 20,000 watt taramps and it sounds great

Add bt to this and with a relatively cheap 400w 12v supply you could cobble together a heck of a rocking garage system.

great way to start a sunday!

had the 800/3 for a while it got loud and hit bass notes plenty deep and hard no issue good amps

Hey Willie thanks for the great content, can you teat the Sonos AMP 2019 version? I have 2 of them , but i dont have an amp dyno.

I am new to your channel, outstanding content sir. I am looking into all the newer micro footprint amps for my Harley. Could you PLEASE review the new DS18 ION mini 1600.4 ? There is NO reviews out there yet & it claims to be BIG POWER,little print. I hope to see something soon, & keep up the great work.

Hello. Loving this review. They make a 2.1 amplifier by drok that is a class a b amplifier. It is rated at 80 w * 2 and 120 watts * 1 for the subwoofer. It is only $25 and I am using it for my subwoofer alone currently and I am liking it quite a bit for the money. I think it would be a great review for you to try. At 25 dollars I think you would bring much interest and be worth your while. Thank you for all the awesome videos

Used this on a power supply for a little home audio setup and it was pretty loud

pretty smart to use a 4 channel amplifier chip, two channels in single mode, two channels in BTL mode, pretty perfect for a lot of applications.

I have ordered 3 teramps so far (800x4) on my door speakers and (hd3000) on my subwoofer no issues went and bought a md5000 and after 10-15 min of play time i heard sparks coming from it and straight into protect i sent it back to amazon its always hit or miss sometimes they could be mishandled during transport or idk

What a neat little amp! Perfect for those who have a car that has a factory deck with Bluetooth but wanna little more output w/o going crazy.

I run a Stetsom 400.1 on my motorcycle. Love it

This would be great Reann all Mono, tweeters and sub didn’t get a four channel for direction would be an amazing amplifier

Seems like it would be a good amp for a compact standard cab pickup.

Would this be a good solution for Bi-amping a coaxial center channel and powering a single 8”?

I know most of the amps you test are car amps, but have you ever tested or checked out the Fosgate Audionics FAA 1000.5 5-channel amplifier? I have one and it is one of the cleanest amps I have ever owned. The design is kind of unique having 5 separate amp board modules you can remove. If you have nothing to do check one out and add it in to one of your videos.

One thing to be aware of with these IC Class D amps is the upper end frequency response. They're supposed to have some form of LRC filter on the output to remove the switching spikes. This leads to a preferred matching for speaker impedance. A mismatch, say 8 ohms vs 2, can roll off the upper end above 15 kHz.

@OxBlitzkriegxO

8 ай бұрын

while i mostly understand what you mean, can you clarify a bit more regarding impedance? if its rated at 4 ohms, are you sating running it lower would change the frequency response?

@brianmack6285

8 ай бұрын

@@OxBlitzkriegxO In a word, yes. The difference between a 2 ohm speaker and a 4 ohm one may not be much if the output filter was designed for 4 ohms but if it was designed for 8 ohms, as is common in home speakers, then the difference might be noteworthy. Unfortunately there's no way to tell short of the vendor giving you that info (or somebody tests results). Now it maybe your source material doesn't have much content that high or you're over 40 and your ears no longer hear those harmonics. Then it's a don't care.

i like the drywall screws used to screw that sundown into the box, the ducttape of screws😂. cool little amp, better power then the other micro amps the can run 36volt

@greenbassboosts8872

8 ай бұрын

I hate drywall screws. Teks brand have been my favorite so far

Derek I have been asking for a while now to see if you can get your hands on a Soundstream Rubicon Nano RN1.5000D (quoted 5000 watt amp) that I can say is somewhat 1 ohm stable, but I have been running two Sundown Audio SA12-D2 subs on this amp for quite a while in my BMW now and it pounded them well for quite a while, but I'm fairly sure I fried it the other day. I once had four of these Sundown subs, but two of them blew. I just wired in my Orion HCCA SPLX 3k watt amp on VERY low gain and no boost tonight. It's the amp that blew the other two newer Sundowns on practically no power (as they're rated at 500 watts RMS each) and I was running all four at one ohm.

Hey Big D, I have an Infinity reference 7541a amp BNIB I would like to have dyno’d. How can we make this happen??

When a company makes such a small amplifier, it would be nice if it can do actually rated and then some.

I have a zapco old school amp like this and was curious why the previous owner didn’t have it connected? Do you still need one of these if you have dsps?

The bigger trio full bridge amps by taramps does make good power I think parker showed it off he has it.

Hi there,I watching your video's for long time and at this point I have a question : what's your opinion about taramps speakers/ subwoofers ? I'm from UK and never seen someone having or speaking about speakers I do have a smart bass 3k and ds400x4 both of them bought from from taramps and shipped to uk Thanks in advance for a minimal reply

I had an mtx just a little larger than that amp in size had it pushing three 12 JL audio and it bumped

damn... im a cone area guy cause i like me some basement lows, but this seems like a little dream team that you set up here D! -W

Bigdwiz You should put the new Timpano bass amps to the test. I really want to see what they do

Is it as good as an old Alpine 3522? Those things were tanks.

Great for Stock electrical usage.

Looking to build atv speaker with something similar with Bluetooth . What do you recomend ?

Not a bad little amp for the money. Would be great for powersports if you could keep it dry

Hi everyone off topic but no1 answers anymore do subwoofers lose impedance over time I have 4 dual 4 w6v3 subs final impedance 2 ohm quite old but still bang hard but I just reinstalled it all into another vehicle absolutely nothing different but when tuning played amazing turned it down 5 minutes later amp smoked but didn't smell disconnected it then connected it bk up played normal turned it down waited then smoke poured out again didn't smell left it then went in protection I tested subs I got a 1ohm reading should be 2 it's a 1ohm stable amp xfire 7.5k but I'm not using ghe 1ohm load speaker output just normal have good voltage 14.9 goes upto 16 volts any ideas cheers

I’m not sure if this is a dumb question I’m new to this but could I run a motorcycle amp ? They run very compact and push 1000 watts and also Marine subs is there really a difference between car motorcycle and marine vehicles? Hope you all have a great day

Precision Power TRAX1.3000D DYNO Been seeing this amp a lot jus curious

I'd like to see a dyno of the Smart 8 Bass.

I put sensitivity set at 1.2 or 200 volts is

Can i use 10 inches subwoofer to that amps?

Not a bad start out amp for someone. If someone did start out with this amp i would over spend the extra cash towards the wiring kit though. Try to run as low as you can afford with a fuse block in the rear somewhere. Then when you upgrade the lower gauge wire is already there for the more powerful amp. I always overkill on the wire in all my rides so i only have to do it once😂.

@MLProductions.1

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. You learn the hardway. Rewiring everything sucks..

@crisnmaryfam7344

8 ай бұрын

Oh its bad, for anyone.. look at all the comments. "I have had one of these amps die within a few months/Weeks/Days, company wants you to pay shipping both ways for warranty work"

@bbay1977

8 ай бұрын

@@crisnmaryfam7344 I will have to look at what the warranty is and covers. Depending on the warranty, depends on if it is worth buying though. As far as someone's going bad, that can be from a few reasons or just a bad amp. Some people assume they also know what they are doing and don't even adjust a amp the correct way, so I cant comment on why it would go bad.

@bbay1977

8 ай бұрын

​@@crisnmaryfam7344I did see where shipping to them for repair is on the buyer. That is normal with most purchases online though. Now if it bought at a audio store that might be waived by the installer though. It didn't say anything about the cost to return the amp back to the buyer though. Might want to check on that though. 😂 Im not saying this is a Great deal for everyone to go out and buy one either. I just said if someone was looking for a budget amp and was starting out. To me the watts for a sub isn't enough for me to ever buy this😂. This would be great for a young teen or adult thats starting out in audio and not looking for a lot of bass😅. This would give a little thump in thr back and make a good set of mid and highs sound goos till they upgrade. That was also the reason I said to put that extra cash in wiring😂. The bigger the amp, the bigger the wire😅. Or they would be replacing the wire for a second time.

@MLProductions.1

8 ай бұрын

@@crisnmaryfam7344 all audio equipment I've had fails. I had a JL amp blow right out of warranty. Take both my subs with it. (Made them thump by the time I was able to pull over and shut car off they were seized) I contacted JL pissed they apologized. Paid $60 to ship. They shipped it back quick and the amp didn't work. I've had alpines blow. Memphis blow. I've ran a Taramps for 3 years now with 0 issues. I bought it to just test it out because there so cheap and I never took it out. They aren't the cleanest power though I'll tell you that. Just put in a MD1200 in my tundra with 0 issues for the last 6 months

Instead of ice and fire how about some vanilla ice 😊

I would love to have several of these running a complete 3way active system with subs! You could even come back with one for center and rears. They need to offer a model with NO internal crossovers as well as adding RCA inputs for each outputs channels. Then I believe you'd have some really nice versatile offerings!

@v12alpine

8 ай бұрын

Exactly, I already posted something similar. It would be PERFECT for a portable 3-way active speaker if it had defeatable crossovers and a 3rd input. Would be even cheaper for them to make because I don't need the filters. I'd buy them by the truck load.

@lllllllllllllllllllll1lll1

8 ай бұрын

Lmao, same thing came to mind. Crossover defeat is a no-brainer, bummer that they failed to implement it. Couple of these and DSP, you'd have a solid 3-way front stage.

@tassioribeirodesouzaribeir5202

8 ай бұрын

Taramps TS 400x4 Taramps DS 440x4

Would be cool to put it to the Kicker QuadBox see what it does

We need to see some Temu amps! Just for fun!

So by the chip spec your voltage feeding it is not even half of its requirement for its power rating.

Please test kicker 4 channel marine amplifier

When are we going to see some Temu amps?

I use these in my battery powered beach set ups.

Can we get taramps big boss 3 please

Looks like its worth it

Had that baby sub jumping

Damn, if that thing had three inputs and defeatable crossovers it would be PERFECT for one of my projects where I'd buy tons of them. Any others out there?

@lllllllllllllllllllll1lll1

8 ай бұрын

Not that I know of. I've got a tri-amped active (DSP) 3-way floorstander in the works, utilizing 3x Fosi Audio V3s for amp duties. It isn't portable, sadly. Could be portable, technically speaking, you'd just need 32-48V DC at 15-20A and a small supply for the DSP board. Much more complex than a couple of these amps and a lithium car battery, though.

Am I missing where the gain is located

I have mine set up for home use❤❤

Sorry go for the kenwood kac-m1814 Its about 70/100 euro

do the big boss 3 they just released please. same smart technology but for 1-2-4 ohm loads. im thinking of getting one and trying them out but a dyno would be nice to see if ut really does rated or over on all ohm loads

@wal

8 ай бұрын

I have one here to try out so it will be shown in a few weeks. Have some other brands coming first 👌

The chip inside that mini amp could do double the power that is putting out RMS and still be ok

I would be VERY curious to see what power it would put out at higher voltages. Would the caps be the limiting factor or is there a different component inside amps that delegate what the maximum voltage is?

Thanks

@bayramoglumurathan925

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

I never realized Taramps had so many tiny amps.

Well damn you could buy two and really double up on the subs and cover all your doors at the same time.

I'd bet the original design was for a 4 channel then they decided to internally bridge the thing to a 3 channel. Thats why only 4ohms on the sub.

@Bassotronics

8 ай бұрын

And even so, I bet if I play anything lower than 30hz, ittle blow up.

Please tell me name of track (music)you all during teardown. At 7:25

@wal

8 ай бұрын

"Coast" which is in the KZread Music Library

That power chip that car amps is using at Texas instruments chip they're only using a third of its power

Awesome 😮

100.10 Compact Class A/B Car Audio 10-way Amplifier, Max10*2000W With Heat Dissipation Design, Simple And Elegant Design it supposed to be 116 db

Solid scientific proof that size doesnt matter😂😂

This is going to work for motorcycle systems or sideXside systems. Simple setup and just right.

@crisnmaryfam7344

8 ай бұрын

That is almost the only case I can see this being used. But from the comments it seems they are a fire hazard..

Efficient and powerful 💪😅. Got 2 of them and they are versatile

Sounds good to me.

What kind of skar 8 is that? N what size is that sealed box? I have one in the house for a home theater sub on an 100w plate amp it kicks ass!

@benblauvelt9034

8 ай бұрын

It's a 6.5" sundown audio sub

@vannloc7551

8 ай бұрын

@@benblauvelt9034 word. I thought it was an 8. I have the ix8 N I think it is pretty good honestly

@benblauvelt9034

8 ай бұрын

@@vannloc7551 I have 2 skar svr-8 in my daily driver and they are quite good!

Do yourself a favor and go buy the Recoil DI550.4 instead. For 20 bucks more, 10x more reliable and 3x as much power.

Thank goodness it wasn't another D4S JP blow me infomercial....😂😂 That 💩 was getting old....😬😬 I can appreciate JP, Big Jeff & all the entrepreneurs like yourself & HiFi Vega, DIY Audio Guy Justin, Parker the Basshead, Jacobviral ect ect... In todays inflation we all got keep a side job & keep hustling hustling hustling hustling Thanks for the great content video audio commentary demo editing as always Big D 🚗🔊💨T💨a💨r💨a💨mps 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

No bad, but personally I would save more $ and buy another amp. On a positive note, it might be good for a motorcycle system.

When I saw T1500 I was sure hoping to see a 1500 watt rms baby full bridge. Keep wishing I guess.

@NerdyBassHead

5 ай бұрын

Wish taramps would make more models of the series.. like a 1000 watt rms version 250 watt channels for mid and 500 for the sub

Headunits should just come with 40wrms @ 4 ohm x4, like my 2013 Sony

Just just just got it then I see this lol

Nice 1

Seems pricey for what you get and no real adjustments

👍👍

Hav maca cast aplipayar

I feel bad for hifi vega for buying that pos taramps head unit if u want to even call it that lol.

This amp is interesting. Does okay but honestly didn’t impress me. Reason I say it’s interesting is the sound is clean but power isn’t all there. But I will say for current price of $70 not bad.

Screw down terminals is a deal breaker.

What’s a Jiggawatt?

@bbay1977

8 ай бұрын

😂 I can tell either you are trolling or you are young by that question😂.

@scanman975

8 ай бұрын

Should actually be 'Gigawatt'.

@michaelhollon5332

8 ай бұрын

It was missed pronounced in back to the future. A Gigawatt is one billion watts.

Sure if you don't mind RF noise.. i purchased one, and the amp sucks..

I like Pringles chips

@BASSstarlet

8 ай бұрын

then you're an i d i o t

Sad that you cant believe what the companies advertise in their products anymore.... Specially in their spec sheets. Do they even dyno test their amps before sending them out for delivery? Or do they just simply slap everything together on a circuit board and say its rated this much?? Because I think the second question fits more than the first one. They slap everything together then judge the wattage without any dyno testing what so ever. I think that because almost all the amps on this Wilston's channel are dyno'd and the fact that most of them did not meet the rated advertised power?? Should be offered a complete refund and keep the amp because it was false advertisement prior to purchase as a consumer.

Its the same with engine displacement. Before if you had a 572 real cc they where called a 550cc but today if you have a 572 real cc, it would be called a 600cc. Wtf?