My Alpine amplifier collection

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5 ай бұрын

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@csj9619 5 ай бұрын

I've got a collection myself, consisting of old-school and modern, working and dead. I think the reason good quality amps sell cheap on the used market is the lower power output compared to modern stuff. For whatever reason, alot of younger folks seem to think you need 2,000 watts on your mids/highs. I've got a bunch of non-working amps free and am around 60-70% successful on repairing 'em. Nice collection, I've always liked Alpine and have owned many, many Alpine head units. Actually still have a working AI-net CD player from 2008.

@georgeperez4231 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 😊

@divennarayan4949 5 ай бұрын

You aren't the only one bud!!! I also have a problem with collecting old school car audio that I grew ip with in the 80's & 90's. I have also collected a lot of alpine amps,speakers,subs, decks. Cheers 🍻

@timmypriddy8385 5 ай бұрын

Nice collection

@brianwatson3705 5 ай бұрын

Id love to see you test the old purple Pioneer Premiere amps. My favorite old school amps (besides the prs)

@littlejln213 Ай бұрын

I just found a link for the v12s. But I have them over 300 amps.

@littlejln213 Ай бұрын

Are those f 407s? The 409 is the nuts.

@dankmemes8569 5 ай бұрын

Very good collection bro 💪. You def need to try and test the juba amp (here, in Russia couple of them sell for like 800-1000 quid). Class A, outstanding distortion rates, which can't be compared with any modern car amp at all. But I am completely broke and building ultra-budget sq setup (mrv-f405 for high and mids, bridged mrx-f65 on woofers and mrx-m55 for sub). What do you think about this setup? Again, thanks for your vid

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

Great setup! F65 bridged is overkill for midbass but if you have it, why not😄

@dankmemes8569 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt So if it's kinda overkill for midbass, is the f65 comparable to yours mrv-f305 in terms of sq on midrange? I'm simply not sure how alive my ~25yr old amp is

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

@@dankmemes8569305 has much less power. But is much cleaner.

@dankmemes8569 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt Well, i better recap the mrv then :) Thanks a lot for your advice

@woldemortxyz7996 5 ай бұрын

Have you measured the SNR at 1W for these? Would be very interested as most manufacturers report SNR at rated power, but in my case, I'll be using only a couple of watts, but still need an SNR of over 100dB at 1W.

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

All the measurements are in Distortion Factory. However, we measure amps at 5W, not 1W.

@soitiharada9063 5 ай бұрын

I have the same problem, to many amplifier and only 1 car, my wife don't have space enough in closet 😂

@alexbrown3193 2 ай бұрын

Hola, muy buenas!!! La pregunta es si MRV-757 se puede usar para un midbass, luego MRV-F407 para mirange y tweeter???

@RAW-CAt 2 ай бұрын

That would be a perfect combination👍

@alexbrown3193 2 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt Gracias!!! Tienen suficiente fuerza ❗️❓❗️

@D1aNdOnLyNiCkx3 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful collection jelly lol, do u think the alpine pdx-f6 is better than the older alpine mrp-f600 I have both to me the f600 sounds warmer if that's a good way to describe it voices sound deeper but that's to me I would love to see tests comparing the two My alpine amp collection: Pdx-f6 Mrp-f600 2x mrd-501d Mrv-f540 Broken off eBay mrp-20000 Mrp-m350 Next is finding some older v12 stuff That's the the alpine amps have a few others but those are the bad ladies

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

Oh man, I really would like to eat the MRP series, but I think (and this is only an opinion not based on data) that after the silver v12s the later amps were not as clean. I think F6 will be much cleaner than the F600.

@elviscaragea4433 5 ай бұрын

I have a question, pssound was talking about using rear field speaker to create a bigger soundstage without losing imaging, is that true?

@Mark_5150 5 ай бұрын

"rear fill". Yes, if your DSP can run the channels and they are tuned properly

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

I will try that out and see (or actually hear) for myself🙃

@elviscaragea4433 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt Thank you

@elviscaragea4433 5 ай бұрын

I have the old pdx 1000.1 what is your opinion about it? It can do 1000wrms at 4ohm

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

The first generation PDX were nothing special sound wise, but for subwoofer application it's perfectly fine👍

@elviscaragea4433 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt Thanks

@josephhammond2557 5 ай бұрын

Wheres the Taramps smart 3k ??

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

Under the amp rack. Hiding😉

@philgreen6376 5 ай бұрын

I have the same addiction lol

@lancewood1410 5 ай бұрын

X-A90M consider good in your books?

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

It''s cleaner than most full range amps. Amazing monoblock 👍

@lancewood1410 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt i have one powering a single X-W10D4 in a sealed 1CU box........looking for a better solution.

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

@@lancewood1410 r2-a150m should offer more headroom.

@francisumeki 5 ай бұрын

@RAW-CAt I'm looking between these two mono amps for my sub (250w / 500w peak at 4ohm)...which one would you recommend?

@francisumeki 5 ай бұрын

@RAW-CAt I also have the opportunity to get a unused pdx m12...so I'm deciding between these 3 amps...

@josephhammond2557 5 ай бұрын

And you need to try the MRV 1505 biggest v12 ever built 1000wrms

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, that one is super expensive and seen only 2 in the UK for sale.

@josephhammond2557 5 ай бұрын

@@RAW-CAt my friend has 1 that is in need of Sam vernard help

@minus3dbintheteens60 5 ай бұрын

I have 4 1505's (and not many people know this, but there are 2 revisions of them, but without opening you would never know), but without measuring, just listening very quickly A/B, I think the '7' series sounds better than the '5', as in T757 and 1507 is better than 1005 and 1505. I haven't had the 1505 in my car running anything yet, too many other amps, I had layed out my T757s and 1505s in the lounge room on the floor hooked up to a nice floating ground 120dB SNR DAC and battery to test them and look for faults etc. Listening for literally a few seconds on the 1505 then a few seconds on the T757 made me say wow. I would love to do actual testing in REW, I've got a 120dB SNR capable ADC sound card, maybe need something better though

@RAW-CAt 5 ай бұрын

@@minus3dbintheteens60 look this up drive.google.com/file/d/14agZOyeIl3fCKqwDgHtrFqZ58bF7gJ9f/view?usp=drivesdk