Wow, that’s impressive!

I had the 1200 series and it was a BEAST before someone broke into my car and took my setup 😢

Awesome comment, thanks!

Man, what a great comment! Thanks for the support! I hope the install turns out awesome. Keep in touch, and let me know how it goes.

@stereomojo Absolutely, this is my first Hifonics amp ever so I'm pretty stoked about it

@@terlinguaDrift do you know what sub or subs you’re gonna put on it?

@stereomojo at the moment I'm not sure what I want to put in. I used to have a setup with 2 amps powering 4 12s all together but I can't recall the specific setup I had. It wasn't a super expensive build but man did it hit hard. I have a Grand Marquis so space is practically unlimited. What subs would you recommend for this amp? I would like a setup with 2 12s as a start

Lol, I’m glad to help out!

I had the cerwin vega spro 2100. It was junk too. Did its rated power but fell off drastically fighting rise.

Wow, I bet that sounded good! That would’ve been a big system back in the day!

@stereomojo both vehicles got me a couple trophies. The aggravation of having it back then, people I've never seen before, play this play that. Hifonics has a newer colossus that is pretty beefy.

audiozerone $89, 1000 watts plus, its tested above 1100 watts. I bought one when I was at $79, but when I just went on sale it was below $50 but the price gradually increased but stopped at 89

@@delamarhamilton7225 that brand doesn’t ship to Canada. Ca Amazon is very limited

The Recoil and Stinger amps are also bargain units that put out rated or more than rated.

Wish I would have seen this a couple months ago when I bought one🤦. But, in all fairness, I e got it on an old Comp VR 15" dvc @2ohms in a sealed box, and it is doing the dam thang. So, I can actually say, it's not just complete junk...

Thanks Ronco! I feel like the ZG did better.

I haven’t ever played with a Brutus, but I need to put it on my list of possible candidates.

@@stereomojo yeah I've collected a bunch over the years. BRX2400.1 , multiple BRX2000.1 and BRX640.4 . Have also ran them at half ohm with no issues. I believe they are from 2010 to 2015 .

Lightning audio is low end Rockford fosgate, not maxxsonic, I mean hifonics 😂

@@thomasbradian6367 yes i know that but the la series was made in same factory as hifonics. a lot of brands do this.

@@thomasbradian6367 yeah lightning audio was acutally pretty decent, had a 1000 watt 1 ohm stable version over a decade ago that was pushing 2 twelves like nothing.

A good majority of amps come out of just a few build houses.

The why is easy, it fools the new buyer into thinking they are getting big power for a low price and since they don't know what 2400 watts actually is they are satisfied with whatever power it puts out. Maxxsonics gets the sale and the profits.

That’s cool! I wish I could’ve had some of their stuff back in the day.

HiFonics, PPI, AutoTek, ORION(Reds), Phoenix Gold! #🔊❤️#The80’s”Best”orTime”!@@stereomojo

Was the series VIII still made by Zed or was the VII the last series by them?

The early series I had lasted for years through many vehicles and were just dull blue amps with large heat sinks like my current D4S’s JP8 with a silver label running across the top in big letters telling you which Greek God or character it was named after and in small letters in the right lower side of Label saying made in U.S.A. from Zed Audio & with (1) heavy hot red wire and (1) heavy black ground wire hanging out out my “Cyclop’s” (100x1) mono amp with a (1) set of rca jacks and adjustable crossover knob (grey and flat with an arrow on it) back then it was so early it didn’t have series written on them like for example; V , Vl, Vll, yet. Now I see pictures of silver flat amps with bright blue HiFonics lit up across the top. Just know they were so freaking awesome having some AMERICAN made amp with a built in crossover and it wasn’t “the Punch” Rockford Fosgate! I used to eat those guys lunch with my Hifonics “Cyclops” with a pair of round 15” Kicker subs vs. their “the Punch 150” with a pair of the Punch RF 15” subs and at the time it felt great because we loved Kicker subs and they would pound but they didn’t make a Kicker amp yet.@@JasonWW2000

Looking at the picture of this “Zues” in this picture looks “Nothing” like the old ones we had! Think of Down4Sound’s JP amps in dull blue color were our first HiFonic’s mono sub amps with a built in crossover was such a “GREAT” Super Reliable amp made in 🇺🇸!#🔊❤️@@JasonWW2000

Cool! Do you remember how many watts it did?

Series VII and VIII were rated at 1200 watts.

Ive ran a couple Brutus amp in the past. I had the BRZ2400.1 and a BRX1600.1 and they were great budget amps that put out good power. I really liked that BRZ line. They looked good and performed well.

Cool!

If I said that, I meant 160.

How is it over fused? It drew 133 amps on a fuse rated for 120A. I'd say it's fused just right. Keep in mind that the fuse rated is determined by how many amps it draws. Efficiency plays a huge factor here.

@@JasonWW2000 meaning, it didn't need that amperage to get that power. Thanks to channel like this maxxsonic, and epsilon have now start to over fusing their amps, because the rule of thumb is you time's the fuse amperage by 10. I have quite a few amps, and my punch 400 suggest you use a 40amp fuse, and the birth sheet says 436 Watts (certified) like I said before my alpine mrv 1505 v12 expert does a kilowatt of power with an 80 amp fuse. Do i have to continue, or do you understand why I say, over fusing

@@JasonWW2000 I'm not going to watch the video to determan efficiency, just remember his test bench is giving a constant 14.4 volts, like any amp( without a regulated power supply) will produce more power, when fed more power, that's why on one of his video, he test a Jensen monoblock it was rated at 600 watts, he got 900 Watts by feeding it more power. Most class d monoblock amps are 80 to 90% efficient my alpine is a class ab, meaning its less efficient than that hifonics trash, and still produces more power. You are probably to young to remember zed audio, made in the USA, hifonics Zeus, it didn't have 120 amp worth of fusing

@@thomasbradian6367 Sorry, but I'm not understanding what you mean by "it didn't need that amperage to get that power". Are you understanding what efficiency is? It's the percentage of power that comes out of an amp in comparison to the power that goes in. This amplifier needed 133 amps at 14.3 volts to produce 1,000 watts of output. 1900 watts went in and 1000 watts came out. That's about 53% efficient which is not good by class D standards. So with its low efficiency, it actually does need 133A (at 14.3v) to make 1,000 watts. This is math. So the fusing of 120A is correct. This is not an example of overfusing. It's an example of poor efficiency. There's a difference. Also keep in mind that the rule of thumb of 10x the fuse rating only applies to class D amps about 80% efficient. Its just a loose guide, certainly not set in stone. Just like class A/B amps rule of thumb of x7 the fuse.

@@thomasbradian6367 I'm trying to help you out and your acting like a troll. Are you trying to demean me by saying I'm not old enough to remember such and such. You obviously don't know my age or how long I've been doing this. Don't be a troll, be respectful.