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@watup110875

5 ай бұрын

MAN I WISHED SOMEONE WOULD DO DYNO ON JENSEN JXP720 2 CHANNEL

I had this exact amp on two 12 Punch DVC's back in the day, and it knocked all the rust off on my old Accord

Love RF, never had a problem with any equipment ive owned. Sound great and feels great. Only downside is price but you get what you pay for. Another awesome video🤘😑🤘

You don't know how long I've waited to see this particular model tested D......no wonder we used to beat so hard with these amps.... Had us thinking it was 400 watts lol ....fooled the hell outta me lmao😅😅😅😅

Great piece of history. I got big into car audio around 91, so these were really hot amps at the time.

Another EPIC OLD SCHOOL review sir thank you. The amp guts of this amp is Beautiful

Fosgate is one of the few brands that have consistently been very reliable with clean power for the entire life of the brand. When I was in high school in the early 90’s, if you had Fosgate, you got instant respect because people knew how good it was. In todays day and age, Fosgate is not held in the same regard, primarily because there are so many brands out there where you can pay 1/2 the price of Fosgate and get double the power. That does not diminish their quality though. Hopefully they never sell out. Great video Big D!!!

@Thumper68

5 ай бұрын

I think you could say the same of kicker, JL, alpine

@91CavGT5

5 ай бұрын

@@Thumper68 that’s why I said one of the few.

@Thumper68

5 ай бұрын

@@91CavGT5 for sure I was agreeing and just saying all four always have been solid and to this day anyone who’s been around knows you can’t really go wrong with any of them cause their bad products still step up from most.

@carolsmaple4763

21 күн бұрын

Still rocking with an Alpine 3525, and a Taramps MD8000.1 powering my Skar Audio EVL 18’s mounted isobaric.

My 4080 DSM is one of the best sounding amps I've ever owned. John Pleitz is a genius.

Thank you big D! I love seeing these old school tests, they always take me back ro my youth when I was obsessed with car audio.

My brother had the same amp back in the day got a power 1000 when it came out. He is still running 2 punch 240s for mids and highs from the 90s . He still has the punch 200 and power 1000 but for whatever reason he is running a different bass amp . He is still running a JL w6 that he has had repaired several times it sounds so good he bought the w6 when it first came out .

Impressive, to say the least!!! These old school monsters are amazing to see on the Dyno. I'd love to see a Zapco z300c2-slx, Z400C4-SL or z600c2-sl if ones can ever be found. It would be sweet to see how those compared to similarly spec'd Rockford on the dyno and for SQ comparisons.

This reminds me of my RF Punch 125s. Berth sheets said 478@ 2 ohm mono. I was pushing two RF DVC Punch 12s to each 125 @1 ohm and even tried all four 12s at .5 ohm. They were beast. I had to put push/pull fans on them just to be safe. I pushed a 151.7 with them in a DB Drag.

Have 2 Of these Old school Fosgates in my 90 S10 Blazer, 360.6 & the 500m Which powers a 10" Fosgate Sub in a matching factory Fosgate box. Sub is just as old as the amps & it still thumps Great for what it is. Everyone always thinks there is 2 10's or 12's in there. Sound Quality is still top notch from both amps.

Awesome. I still run a 20 year old 4 channel rockford amp. Never let me down

I remember seeing a lot of installs back then using that punch link. I always knew those amps were good, but wow, that was impressive.

Been waiting for this test for 10 years.

I ran an original Punch 75 on two M&M 15s before I went to work at a local audio shop and started competing. That old Punch 75 never gave me a single issue and never went into protect no matter how hard I pushed it.

Keep it going BigD! I competed in the 0-99Watt class back in the 90s. I worked at a car audio shop in Tucson and we were very proud of the electronics made in USA up the road in PHX. Your videos are great and fun to rewind catching little things from the past.

I always got these early rockford amps without the end caps lol 😆

@volvo09

5 ай бұрын

Yep, have seen so many with the caps missing. My first fosgate amp was used from a friend and he lost the end caps 😂

I love RF.❤ i own their punch 8inch subs and that pair sounded awsome.😊 i miss those subs. Someone stole them. I had them fir 3 years only.😢

Oof...I ran mine at one ohm bridged back in the day. You could fry bacon on those things.

Here in Brazil it's very rare and expensive to buy these Fosgate's EUA amplifiers. More than 15 years ago I bought them second hand. I bought them painted with car paint. I don't use them anymore, but I love them... I don't think I'll ever sell them. I've tried to post some pictures here but I think someone deleted my previews comment... These tests make me want to put them back in my car again. Congrats on your channel, BigDWiz!

Been waiting for this video!!! Love it !! Still have all of my old RF amplifier with end caps! (2)200DSM,(2)200ix,(2)100ix,4080DSM and punch 250M2 All in excellent condition!All from 1994/1995 Thank you for the great Video!❤

I'd had this amp paired to two Orion 15's back in the day in a S-10 Blazer. Makes sense after seeing these numbers why it pushed them so hard. It was a great system for its day.

AWESOME. Love watching you show off these vintage amps and what they can do. I am still hoping sometime you can Dyno some Hollywood Sound Labs or Audio Gods by Hollywood. Thanks Old School Stereo .

Oh yes. I had a 100 and a 200 but it was in 92. Had the 100 running 12 mids and tweets and the 200 running 4 10inch series ones. I blew them and switched to orion reds. The soundstage was crazy good. Could he it 4 to 5 blocks away.👍🤟

I own half a dozen or so RF amps. I started with a P45 in the mid to late 90s and now run a P1000.1bd. This brand is worth every penny they charge for them and you always get well over rated power. People that have known car audio for a long time respect this brand look at Steve Meade's Tahoe. He runs eight Power 2500.1 BDCP on his 18s. Tony D. And the other engineers at RF were ahead of their time and always over built these amps. I've never had one quit on me and some are pushing 30 years old. Thanks for the vid Big D

THOSE AMPS WERE MONSTERS

The reason our systems bumped so hard back then is we ran amps like these at 1 ohm, sometimes unknowingly, ha-ha. Sticking to specs wasn't in the books! We just cranked that gain until the neighbors' kitchen windows rattled from 500 feet away.😅

Awesome video was a dealer for Rockford back in the day for over 19 years ….did you know they built home audio equipment under the name Hafler…and some of them came in a kit you got to build.

My very first setup as a junior in high school in 1997 was 4 Rockford Fosgate Punch 10s on two punch 40s that looked just like these. Sealed enclosure inside of an 88 Toyota extended cab mini truck. ❤

Awesome video, I can't wait to hear the differences explained

Wow! I’m still trying to absorb the dynamic burst power. That is insane. Like the 1100a2 test.

Oh yeah! They are so stout I am actually thinking of reproducing these old school RF output stages. Once my cheapo class AB amp craps itself I'll be putting in work!

I had a punch 200ix on 4 Rockford fosgate audiophile 12s back in 94. It sounded really good but i upgraded to a power 650 & 4 12s Rockford power series subs in 95.

That's the one we connected 42 speakers to (all we had in the display board) back in the 90's at the car audio store i worked, took a few hours to figure out ohm load and wire it, just to prove that thing was almost bullet proof, and it played most of the day before thermal protection shut it down, the good old days.

Shoot man, I REMEMBER when you tested an old skool pg Zpa, it was either the o.3, or 0.5👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I ran two of these to eight Power 10" woofers. In the under 500 watt category I was at 152.8db. 😂

I still have my punch 500m I just need to get it recapped and it will be good for another 30 years

I had the Punch 100ix on a JL 12w6 in 1994 😎

@Mr-Neven

5 ай бұрын

I had a Punch 200ix and 2 JL10W3s back in 97. Killer set ups

Awesome Big D! Crazy power! Can't wait for the next video. I wonderrr what the 500m can do if that 200 is doing 1500 watts. I bet the 500m can do over 2k! Thanks for the video 👍 👍

Grew up with this amp love it and still own it

Love 90's equipment

I had the 200ix pushing 2 RF 15’s. I don’t remember which subs they were but they had the 3D RF logo on the dust cap. If I remember correctly, I had them in a pretty big sealed enclosure in the trunk of my car in high school. It destroyed my car! Lol

Rock solid amps!

@volvo09

5 ай бұрын

I remember getting my first Rockford amp. It was only 90 or 120 w or something but it DESTROYED the "1000w" flea market amp I was running before. I was so happy.

Wish I still had my Power 500m great amps

I love these amps i have 200 dsm and a 4080dsm love them for lows and a soundstream old ref 500 up top

RF also made the link pieces that would join two amps to look like one big amp . Others did the same as well , and , they are harder to find these days then the end caps . It was fun watching the power arms race play out along with the technological innovations . From straight ahead gain stages with no terminals and a couple bundles of wires , or , din plugs you had to splice in to . This grew to adding simple bass boost and rudimentary filtering with pots or pluggable daughter boards / cards , then , they started adding full range outputs and crossover capabilities , remote bass adjustment , sub sonic filtering , selectable slopes , phase shift , etc .. Everyone was trying to " out Swiss Army Knife " everyone else and making flexibility a big selling point . Now you have full DSP with time alignment available as a common thing , and , straight ahead no frills , just gain and no feature amps are an exception rather than the rule . And these old dinosaurs will still roar !

I still have four of these babies along with the link caps and end caps . I never sold my cars that I had them in . I think they will be in my casket when I die

I had an old Rockford 4 channel with the crossover chips back in college that my uncle gave me. That amp got loud and sounded so good. Wish I never sold it....

Another great oldschool Video!! It’s always great to watch your early to mid 90s related videos - thanks 😃😊 In terms of repairing the earlier DSM series had leaked out silver SMD caps 10uF 16V after years. That’s what I experienced. It’s similar to the older HD series. These got better in the mid 90s from ix model up. Yesterday i had a 96 Power 250X2 for testing and dyno which also sound great - love these amps 👌

@JasonWW2000

5 ай бұрын

Are you the guest coming on the show next week?

@audiokeller1975

5 ай бұрын

@@JasonWW2000 no, my plane from Germany is in the repair shop 😃🤷‍♂️👍

@JasonWW2000

5 ай бұрын

@@audiokeller1975 Okay. I assume he'll have an online guest, not in person.

@audiokeller1975

5 ай бұрын

@@JasonWW2000 ah ok 😃 no, I’m too new to all this and way too unknown 😅

Esos anplificadores son unas verdaderas joyas 💎

You made my "Throwback Thursday" a reality. Love what you do, D

LOL @ the British narration. I always wondered how close the DSM & IX were power-wise (apparently really close). I'm very curious about the x2 series because of the drastic design change. Also, are those the original caps in there?

@wal2

5 ай бұрын

Yes, original caps! Crazy, right?

Always wanted a full set of these. I had the punch amps from 2000 but sold them off. What a regret that was.

@ericlloyd7981

Ай бұрын

Regrets? Its only stuff that you don't use or need to live, stuff that just collects dust please believe I have my share.

I had a Punch 200 until a couple years ago. That's one amp I truly regret selling. I love the updated video on this amp! Keep up the great work!

I use to run those old Rockfords, and they would give off that Rockford smell because they were made like a George Forman grill. Still have a punch 200, with the end caps, but people dont know that 500 watts of a/b is so much cleaner than 1k of class D

Definitely very underrated. Rf was good bang for the buck.

That was just awesome. I knew they had the power back then, but I was still an Alpine fan boy. Then I got married.🤣

Another great one Big D. Love old school Rockford amps……

Cool old school

Analog amp. So good. Thanks.

I had a Fosgate amp in late 90's that had the Xcard just like that one. My factory birth certificate tested at 727 watts. I don't remember which one I had though.

The DSM series this has down my favorite of all RF amps.

Big D with the ol school amps for the win

i have 2 punch 200ix's all tho one blew this past summer, but i still have it. i even have all the caps for them. that extra wide spade connector for th remote wire sucks to find a spade for that matches the remote wire.

I have a 100, and a 60 WITH endcaps!.. unfortunately, both met a horrible demise. I’ve been storing them for years, to have the right person to fix them.

@JasonWW2000

5 ай бұрын

These are pretty easy amps to work on. There's no MESHA boards so the fets are easy to swap with an iron. They are pretty bullet proof unless used on subs, then you might blow the output fets. Lots of folks work on them in the US.

Love og Rockford ! Beast amps! Had that 6.5 slapping! Hey big d what’s the specs or maker of that box? I’m ordering a 6.5 from them from your link and I want it to slap like that !!!!!??!!🎉

Lol voice sounds familiar. What's up buddy didn't know you had another channel. I just found an old fosgate 1200 punch 401S for 30 bones..should I grab it up. Outside looks really rough though

Would love to see you test the Rockford Fosgate Type RF X4 😊

They just don’t make audio equipment like this anymore. I had an ALPINE deck that I purchased around 2000, or 2002. It had the BBE sound processing built into it. That thing was nasty! It had 3 adjustable levels on it for highs, mids, & bass. It was like having a loud button with sound quality.

I think guys back in the day used to push these with 16 Volt battery setups and drive even more watts.

There’s no dsm’s that have failed to wow me in your tests. They have really put some of their vintage peers in their place. I’ve noticed you haven’t tested a ton of old school mtx amps (which is what I ran for a while back in the day).

Real OG

Ai explanation was great. If you get an Austrian accent.....run

Best amps by far

Please do a test on 4080DSM. I’ve always wanted to know.

Best amp ever made!!!!!!!

I had a 800a4 hooked up to 2 Sony 1200 watt explodes 12" . Wow band pass box with center air flow believe it or not I hade people come out and tripping on me

💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

never had good luck with the trans anna cards over the raw dsm

I actually wish the rem connection was a spade just like this. Total overkill the way it's included between 12V/GND, plus makes the wire look extra puny.

Do you have these 3 amps still

1500 watts wow nice

I really miss the days when analog was king and non of this crappy dig and cassettes ruled as well

do a sony xplod xm-2002gtr or 2002gtw

@poopool_Q

5 ай бұрын

I had both of those as a youngster! And a 1252gtr I believe. They did just fine for the price too. Xplod got a lot of hate but kept me in the game just fine. Jensen too. My brother in law had an older Sony 1ohm stable amp with a switch on the bottom. I wanted that amp so bad after hearing his set up. Good times

THAT SIGNAL TO NOISE SPEAKS A LOT, HIGHER THAT NUMBER THE BETTER, NOT OPINION JUST FACT, SAME WITH SUBS/WOOFERS/MID/HIGHS

@JasonWW2000

5 ай бұрын

This is actually a meaningless number - unless it's done at 1 watt. If it doesn't say at 1 watt then it's probably greatly exaggerated and should be ignored.

Am I insane or didn’t people run these at .5 ohm in the 90s? I don’t remember any of these going poof at .5ohm loads. Or am I thinking of a different cheater amp?

@JasonWW2000

5 ай бұрын

If the person had enough impedance rise, then it's possible.

Should use a female British voice so it’s sexy and fancy 😂