I think so too

Any thoughts on the Pioneer DX871?

OCD Garage haven’t gotten to play with that model specifically, but I think it’s supposed to be a SQ version of this or the 8701 amp.

@@HifiVega Love mine! Works great altho my bass knob somehow melted together where you plug the cable into the knob. 1600 watts at 1ohm but have my gain dialed down as my sub is rated max for 1200.

It's been great for me too. Same guts as the fosgate 1200.1d for half the price.

Thanks man!

100% Agreed

Thanks for watching!

That amp actually made the list as well!

i just hooked everything up today it’s absolutely fucking amazing

Yep those days are pretty much gone

Thanks for watching homie!

Yeah it’s pretty much exactly the same internally as far as I can tell

@@HifiVega best of all I only paid 45$on offer up for it.lol

How does it do at 1ohm

@@greatmind3823 gets a lil warm after a while but no issues.i always run it at 1 omhs.

Yeah that’s a nice lil upgrade

Chief9-10 you know it!

I can’t do a dynamic test on my set up so that maybe the test you’re used to seeing bigger numbers on

True. 9601 really put out much sound than this 9701, but this model is more accurate. But the amps are amazing. The 9601 was sentive to power connection making it a bit fragile, but for 1200rms, they are burgain of the century.

Black and grind or transana amps 🤘🏼

@@HifiVega I have put the last version through hell. I was using one to drive a older ppi power class fifteen in a sealed box , I know I was not feeding it enough and I had it tuned pretty razor edged.....it over heated one time over the year it was doing daily duty( 45 min to hour and a half drives twice a day ) . Sold it to a kid in my neighborhood and and he's still farting away with it. They are very well built. The way I used it , it should have " poofed" long time ago. 😎

I know right! We were chumps lol maybe still are

@@HifiVega maybe so but I still like looking at a huge circuit board. This matter of fact most of the amps I've restored I've made custom bottoms so you can enjoy the engineering that went into them😊👍. The hardest ones were for the Soundstream because of a one-piece side plates. But they turned out beautiful, and I'm still working on audio art 100 UHC. That's been too long to finish

Thanks man!

Definitely a pain with these type of connectors

I think they were trying to make it harder for wires to come loose or out really, along with leaning the terminal for easier tool use.

Fo sho

Pioneer is trash. I bought their VSX-82TXS Elite AV receiver which when it released was $1,200 which is okay for the features and I/O it had but the dang thang don't work lol. No matter what input I get it's just straight distortion. I opened up the chassis to try and fix it and the soldering was absolute garbage for a $1,200 receiver. I wouldn't expect that type of soldering in a $300 receiver. Their head units are the only things I'd consider using as I have one and for the price sounds amazing, it's not on par with my Kenwood single DIN but I only paid about a fifth of the price 😁

That being said, this amp looks amazing. Haven't seen many better looking amps than this one lol

Jacob Webb did you buy it directly from them

Those were dope!

David Perry I wish they would as well... I run Triple tsw3004spl 12s... took almost 3 yrs to find 3, I do know who has a pair of the subs you want, but my dumb ass told him who's name the signature on the sub was, it was actually a pair out of the comp rig that set the record of 174.1ddbs... could have got the pair for $500.00 each, both worked perfectly...

Totally agree!

There you go man! Hey send me that address again I forgot to screen shot and it disappeared lol

Fo sho

@@HifiVega what do you think about pairing this to 1 kenwood excelon db+ 12"- 350rms 1200max dvc 4ohm?

Buddy of mine had the 9605 and he had a killer set up

@@HifiVega i count on it, people get amazed on my setup and think i have 2 amps running it

Hmmm could be, but I wonder why the manual says that...

hippo potamus that’s one of the most important considerations

Thanks!

Thanks

carlos bolano I think it would be worth it depending on the model. If it was a higher end model that is now more affordable because it’s used and older then you’d be doing well. If you’re goal is the most bang for the buck then you would probably be better served buying a new cheaper amp.

HifiVega Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it!

Hey Hifi! I bought the Rockford P10002 amp (new), from 2006, and it should arrive soon. I don't have a car to test it though, when I get it, but I do have a 35 amp Power Supply! Can I test this big amp (160 amp fuse), with this Power Supply (35 amps)? Or will I damage the Power Supply, and or, blow the amp? Thanks for your expert advice!

Lowest gain should be all the way to the left or 6v

@@HifiVega thank you for the speedy reply, do you mind letting me know why the 6v is minimum gain and the 0.2v is max gain? Seems to me like it would be the other way round. Thank you

@@AlexS-jo1bz it’s because that’s a reference to your input voltage not what the amp itself is putting out

@@HifiVega if im using speaker level input and the input voltage is more than 6.2v would i need something like a loc to reduce the voltage? Because right now the bass is way to loud even on the lowest gain.

The Skar amps seem to be pretty solid

J Holley I havent had the rp1200, but Ive had rp1500 and rp2000 theybhave poor sound quality, these pioneer amps have much cleaner power

If it wasn’t a bass boost knob I’d call it a gain knob 😉

@@HifiVega no i literally mean its just a bass boost at 45 or 50hz from 0 to + 18db look on the manual the old model had it too.

Haha of course that’s the first thing you’d notice 😂😂 classic Dudley!

Yeah man current prices are insane

Coming soon!

Yeah that’s the bad part about Amazon prices can fluctuate

@@HifiVega equipment tests on KZfaq being readily available is a double edged sword, in good side you find out what's junk and what's not then the down side stuff that has great reviews price jumps... But I'll take knowing if the equipment is junk or not. Seems Everytime I watch a review and I look it up it's either discontinued or the price has jumped alot, Wolfram amps is a good example. I'm always a day late or a dollar short, that's the story of my life. Seems Audiopipe is one of the last for awsome specs and decent prices, Toro Tech may be the next best kept secret getting out tho. I just bought there 500wrms 2 ohm A/B class "R2" and Skar IX10 for my pickups budget system, curious how it all works. And maby some day get ahold of NVX for a VCW15 recone for my caravan, it's been about impossible trying deal with them just need a simple recone so I can be bumping again!!!..why problems with NVX? covid19??? Beautiful weather Have great weekend bud!

pricing goes up on everything that's a Hi demand. You'll think that the prices will drop on a high demand item. It's all money hungry greed from these manufacturers

@@kelvinperkins5864 I've been wanting to see a dyno of the TORO Tech R6 it looks awesome 3200Wrms at 1 ohm 4k at .5 ohm stable for $399 but if it does it or even exceeds it Toro techs prices will prob start creeping up. There MR2 micro did killer exceeding the 500w rating but there RX4 fell slightly short. Even tho it's a "budget" subsidiary of Massive Audio if there prices creep up an people continue to buy there products the prices will still will continue creeping up, Wolfram Audio is a prime example they had killer performance at basement prices until budget gem went crazy fanboy over them there prices soared up damn near to Sundowns crazy prices being placed in with the other "premium" obsceanly overpriced and still korean and chinese made products. I have to hand it to Audiopipe for staying affordable even with several very nice products, I would take my AP APCLE 1800 over my Pioneer GM9701 any day. Not only that its $60 cheaper. It obviously has more power overall but imo has alot better SQ in general and at low listening volumes my subs are alot more lively and dynamic sounding they just sounded flat on the Pioneer at those listening levels and plus it has no subsonic filter. At $135 GM9701 is a super killer deal but at $285 its underperforming and waaay overpriced, in my opinion it's a $180 amp tops.

joe s damn! That sux

I’d maybe look for something with a little more power at 3ohms. A Kicker KX series or maybe an RF T series

I totally agree

Yep

Elliot Schwartz you will be very happy with this amp for the price you paid.

Hard to go wrong with RF

I couldn’t find it for less than $205 online seemed like that was the map pricing because every place I looked it was the same price

@@HifiVega maybe they went up on the price but still for $160 1200 and probably not 1200 rms il still go qith the taramps for an extra $45 you can get real men amp with 3000+ rms power.. i just cheked and yes it went up now for 200 you could get the 1800 wich is still way better than pioneer. Love the chanel take care man

It’s a worthy upgrade imo

Yes it would do well on those subs

I’ve been wanting to test one, but it might be a little bit before I get to it.

@@HifiVega Thanks ive read a lot about it but it is pricey compared to the kappa but the kappa box specs are 2.5 net and don't know how my box will do.

I set it with the DD-1 -5db overlap

This one is a power maxx 100a

It can be powered at home with 50 ampere smps power supply

Aaron OBS it’ll work

Like Clockwork64 yeah they should do well like that

Yep 1200w

Yeah for sure. You wouldn’t be putting 500 watts to each but it would power them

Yeah, it doesn’t make sense at that price

Those fuses only blow if it’s a continuous pull at that amperage and they’re not all that precise to begin with

Thank you 😊😊

Yeah these are great when you can find them at a decent price

I have the older version 9601 have it pushing three 15s crossfire BAMFS 600RMS a piece and it rattles the circle k window when I pull up!

They’re called braking resistors you can find them on eBay for around $35 ea

And less expensive 😉

HifiVega is there a way to test how clean the signal is coming out of it? Ie, prove that Brazilian amps are “dirty power”?

Almost included that one, but at the time they were sold out

Oh ok

Lawd

Ez

Yeah man these things have gotten stupid with the price

Miss Bigg this amp would work great or you could check out some of these kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMBhiruXt6vUdZ8.html

How can a sub power another sub?

@@tholo86 What? I said I have this *amp* - it is powering both of my 10s.

@@boltinabottle6307 Sorry I got confused, now I get you

Easily

I meant to say 8601

@@HifiVega oh I wasn't referring to anything you said in the video but big d tested the 9601 which I assumed was the same as all the inputs size and controls are the same. I wish somebody could post side by side pictures of the guts

Easy

You could run this on a stock alternator pretty well imo. If you’ve got a 90+amp alt you’re in good shape

TheLassenman it’s on the low end for class d, but in my experience cheaper class d amps are less efficient.

@@HifiVega I see and thanks for the repsond

As far as I can tell it’s not listed...

@@HifiVega does it maintain control over your sub fairly well?

Not worth it at anything over $200 imo

Ruben Torres no I haven’t. I’ll have to check that out

@@HifiVega yes!!! Please! Very interesting website!!! I'd like to know what you think!!!

At some point I hope to

@@HifiVega the amp is rated 2000w @ 12.8v. I just have the feeling this might be a 4000w amp @ 14v

For realz!

Mehran Khan I’d put a volt meter on the power and ground and try to make it repeat that while looking at the volt meter on the wires going directly into the amp and see if you’re getting some weird voltage readings. If they are somewhat normal not dropping below 11.5ish then you’ve got another issue

@@HifiVega i have checked, voltages are dropping to below 11 volts on high volume.

@@HifiVega what to do in this case, note that i already do BIG3 upgrade in my car

@@HifiVega can i use 2 speakers output of this amp for my both subs separately. It might ease the voltages intake of amp ?? What do you think

I will

Does it do high level inputs?

AncientAlien815 it’s a cheap amp

@@HifiVega true dat!