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It’s always fun seeing these no name brands getting tested. And to think, back in the day if you had a true 300 watts going to a subwoofer, you had a good amount of power!

Love these types of videos as someone who can't afford much it's always good to know what all these unknown brand's can do even though this one is rare to find Its still interesting

I bought one of these a year ago. Some guy on ebay had a bunch of these sold as new old stock. He offered them to me at $90 a piece if I bought 3 or 4. Wish I had bought more than one. These are great for a retro system. Plays clean. Thanks for testing. I've been wondering what it could do.

Love the 90s throw back..keep it coming..

Plenty of car audio videos out... but when Williston Audio Labs uploads one I have to watch it!

Weird but neat. When you had those odd dynamic readings, figured it had a regulated power supply that might not react well to fast bursts. Tho it still did what it claimed. And held up well at low voltages. Interesting. Still, that whole amp could easily fit in half that heatsink! Must have had a killer deal on heatsinks that year...

So back in the day I bought a 1989 Chevy Beretta GT from my cousin's family after he passed away in a drunk driving accident (not him driving and not the Beretta), but it had two Image Dynamic 15s in the trunk with two ID 150 watt amps (that were 1/4 ohm stable), two 5 farad caps, and two gel cell batteries (along with MB Quart split sets in the dash and a Sony tape deck that was unpowered because it had a Sony 4 channel amps for miss and highs). That car sounded like no other. I pulled up in front of my high school one day and shattered my rear windshield with it...and I got suspended for 10 days because of it. People used to tell me that they could hear me coming a mile away and it sounded like thunder. I was 16...lol Almost every car that I've owned since then has had a system in it. I'll be 40 next year and my car now has a set of Sundown Audio SA12-D2s in it with an Orion HCCA SPLX 3K watt amp with a 7" touchscreen in the dash, all Kickers mids and highs with tweeters, and a Skar 5 channel 900w amp to run them.

What a funky amp! I like how you all sorts of levels of amps. Cheap to expensive. It's all been awesome to watch. I bought my Audiopipe amps because of your tests. Keep em all coming 😁👍👍

I love seeing the random old school amps, these rare ones are fun to see!

Man that's a beautiful amp, can't believe this is the first time seeing it, considering this is when I started my car audio journey, I'd love to see how the Crossfire 2000.4 performs, decently priced, and has been solid for 7 months even at 16v, so I've been curious, thanks Big D 🤙

Had a buddy back in day, used the same amp to run his mids and highs. Sounded pretty good. He also had 3 jl 10’s on a punch mono. Used to sound really good in his CRX.

Definitely enjoy seeing 👀 the oddball type stuff. I've never heard of them either until now. Always fun learning something new!

When you showed results it said down for sound jp 10.4 if you didn’t notice. I’ve seen this amp before for sale in few places.

Awesome, I saw a pair of these on EBay and almost bought them. I had 8 of the Crankenstein M80’s running my doors 4 way active back in 2002

I love me some Dr. Crankenstein. I had the M80 amp powering a 12 inch sub when I was in High school. Bumped pretty hard for 110 watts of power.

I love seeing all the old directories! I remember buying those and memorizing all the specs of everything. 😂😂 I landed a car audio salesman position because I knew all the specs of everything they sold!!😂😂😂.

Heard of it! It's not a bad design honestly. They had good decoupling, audio grade caps in the signal path, and STAR grounding! Yeah, they could have knocked a few inches off the length but most people here don't think like engineers. Using one extrusion and just slicing off what you need for each model saved them some money. Sure, it makes the bigger amps needlessly long (because it's narrow), but it makes the smaller amps more compact. Wasted it on the subs though. I see a sound quality design. Use the full range speakers instead.

now this is the content i like!!!!! had a son of crank on 2 12 inch Cranks in a big ass sealed box......ohhh the memories!!!!

love seeing stuff like these cuz it shows the other side of car audio where people didn't know it existed if n I t for vids like these.. and since I live in Arizona wher in the 80's and 90's wher we once were the Hotspot for alot of brands back then like orion & fosgate along with mtx and so many more brands once lived its cool to see one that no one including myself didn't know existed all these years. later

it's always good to see the odd & the unique items that is produced in the market .

I also have a super rare and super big amp, mine looks a bit like this but is much wider but "only" 65 cm tall. Mine is the old legendary MDS A2000 amp, it is a 2-channel class AB with 2x1000 watt power. I used this to power a front system with 8 woofers and two 700 watt horns and 40mm silk dome tweeters and it was still so much power you would smell the coils if you crank it up. it was the loudest front system I ever built and I have never heard anyone play louder either. people could hear this system several kilometers away. I have the amp but not the car anymore, I miss this build

You the man on this amp come up awesome show yet OLD SCHOOL AMPS NEVER DIE FACTS

I was also impressed! I think back in the day with some creativity these would display and perform in an epic way. These days well, we can get more power for less if that is the main goal. But hey; oldschool is awesome.. Thanks for another great video Big D....

This is cool. I've never heard of Arizona and I've been around car stereo systems for a long time as well. I had also never heard of US Amps or Image Dynamics products until I built systems out of them.

The stuff you come up with, sure glad you started a KZfaq channel so I can see all the cool gear. If you ever want to dyno another critical mass amp I got a few I could send got some older alpine amps to.

Cool...I never heard of that company. The chrome reminds me of the old school soundstream.

Love seeing the old and rare items

I had some Dr Crankenstein back in the 90's..Decent stuff.

My introduction to car audio love was a friend's 15 inch Crankenstein . Been a bass nut ever since.😆👍 Thank you for the videos 👍

Never seen one of these! Very nice. Obviously has a regulated power supply. I like that. 👍🏼

Crossover on the output? Awesome!

Cool Derek... never heard of this brand before. Tempe AZ was a car audio meca back in the 80s and 90s. Cool old school branding on this one !!!

I like your content. Thanks for your time. I have been trying to see if you have a 60+60 realistic amplifier video, and I couldn't find it . I used to have one back in the days, and it was impressive. I will be looking for one , and I will send it to you so you can add it to your videos! thanks again

Had one, had a hum, sounded nice. Was famous on local Craig’s list

Hey man keep the cool old videos coming

That's a reeaaal oldschool beauty too🤙😎👍👍

Ron May the owner was always into gimmicks , he often used Elvira at his shows and is was a local guy, Interestingly he tried to bring the brand back and it failed. His subwoofers were really good if you had the high voltage, He had them made by Eminence speaker company here in KY. He left car audio and started selling supplements and was making a skin cream conditioner and ended up inventing something that was highly effective against skin cancer and lives the big life now.

i saw this on eBay and considered it. I collect these old obscure AMERICAN MADE amps, I think the seller had 2 of them, but it is to large to fit on my shelf. I wonder if it was made in Arizona, as many were in the 90s and if it was made in the Crankinstien factory.Another great show Big D

Man, I have crankenstein subs still and by far my favourite sounding sub to this day. Crank 12s are the best.

Dude where do you find this stuff. I can remember a buddy brought me one to repair. He had hooked it up on power backwards and burnt up the start relay. I replaced it with an omron. Powered it up and gave it back to him. Awesome to see again.

I still have a few of the small models of this brand. I think two or three left, used to make amazing budget SQ systems with these back then!

Great video! As always.

I got one of them amps in a trade back in the day awesome to see some number on that thing 😎

unbelivebly kool ,thanks big d wiz

How about a little Smoke Jacket Blues? You love that song 🎵

Always love to see the rare amps.

About the rarest amp we ever wholesaled was named Summit. They were easy on the eyes but had a strange hum noise that would continually come out of the speakers. I wanna say their use of Muse resistors/capacitors- were to blame for that hickup maybe?

Love your content!!! I also love surfboard amps definitely the best era of amplifiers

The date on the board looked more like it is Feb 12 1997. I say 97 because the shape of the last digit is more of the shape of a 7 than a 8 or a 9.

What a midweek drop! That is a nice amp. Shiny! It would look really nice on my wall.

Lawd hammercy... That's a beautiful amp.

Thank you for this video i have two of these amps and could not find any info on them. I think they are cool amps and look good too!

*Never over heats*

I have seen before on regulated amps that the dynamic power is pretty restricted, but overall, a great showing for the old "plank" amp

Let's see some of the old surfboard amps!

Hopefully you could get your hands on a Butler tube amp. Used to be the amp I wanted back in the late 1990s

I love your videos, but I'm not a big car stereo guy. I love audio stuff and am knowledgeable about it. One thing I do not know anything about is the subject of how to supply power in a car for a big amp. I've thought about putting a moderate stereo in my much loved KIA Soul, but I'm not sure what my stock alternator can take, reasonably. I have found it difficult to find information like this, "if you have a 200 watt alternator, then it probably is OK for you to run an amp with X amount of overall amperage draw." Nothing set in stone. Also, how people drive huge and sometimes multiple huge amps would be really interesting. I'll check if you have a vid like this too.

I usually just watch from beginning to end, but at 30 inches, I HAD to skip straight to the guts to see how much wasted real estate there was. I was pleasantly surprised. While everything is widely spaced, it's not as if half the board was empty. The only real waste I see is that the power Xsistors are not spaced apart, so most of the heat sink is wasted. Skipped back to the start for monetization / entertainment purposes. Not even a copy or a clone. It looks straight up rebranded. These guys would be hung from a tree if amps were cattle. I'm willing to bet a cup of coffee that the original Dr. Crankenstein's output is very nearly the same (which means Dr. C overrated their amp). Great Stuff!!! Keep 'em coming. Love your show. Edit: well, I guess those Xsistors are a bit spaced apart, but not along the whole length.

Wow, aint seen one of them in a minute. My old boss liked odd amps and he had one of those and one of the big purple US Amps that was similar in length only 6x the weight. Never thought I would see one again. We were an MTX/Kicker/JL/Rockford/Boston/Infinity/Quart/Zappco dealer and he refused to sell those amps lol

Somebody got a deal on a gross of raw extruded heatsink back in the day! Lol! I enjoy these weird, off brand old school amps, subs, etc. FYI, I have a little PPI Ion 350.2 amp sitting here that also does 350 watts@ 4 ohms...it fits in the palm of my hand. 😂 Cool video!

It's like they took 10 about 10 Roadmaster boosters and just used the parts out of those and found a big hunk of aluminum to put it in. Cool doe

The Coustic AMP560 is 98cm long. Had 2 of them back in -98.

Love the rare and quirky amps Big D.

I can just imagine the look I would have made opening the back of a hatchback to see 3 of these in '99

Looks interesting. I would love to have that in my collection!

Soundstream had 3 and 5 channel amps using the same heatsink/case design.

I laughed when I saw such small power terminals for an amplifier so long. 🤣 At least it did rated and then some. Lot’s of wasted empty space inside though. With components so separated, it would be like those thousand dollar home amplifiers that have the components separated to avoid cross talk and noise.

Zapco is another manufacturer of old school amps the are pretty incredible

The low dynamic power is probably from those tired little rail caps in there. Really needs caps on both ends as well given the length.

Kind of reminds me of the old Memphis 1000 but amplifier like this ware mostly for show car's like the washboard amplifier mini trucker had still cool to see

We sold Dr Crankenstein bitd, had that mc1200 on display. It was a neat looking amp, don’t recall if we ever sold it or what happened to it.

That thing looks awesome. Don't think I can squeeze that into my suzuki. Made in the USA. Yeah boy!

Very cool amp!! I love the name of it!!!!

A 1500 rms watt small Taramps $300 amp will be way louder than that 30" long amp but at least it looks so cool.

I had a pair of small Dr. Crankenstein amps red with plexiglass bottoms on 2 Pyle 15s I loved them but apparently someone with a screwdriver loved them more 😔

That's Feb 12, 1997. I'm certain of it.

2.6ohm bridge test? sometime they like being wired in parallel to a set of 4ohm subs. very realistic scenario.

I think I got it figured out bigD. I used to talk to a long time SS employee that started in the beginning and through the second Rubicon series. He told me a story about how they were asked to design amps for Dr. Crankestien and when they went to sell them to them they never paid. I believe the P series from soundstream was those that they designed. If you look at some images of the P series from SS they are EXACTLY the same as this amp. End caps heat sink shape and even the knobs for the crossovers. Let me know what ya think.

Haha that's crazy my comment on last video did read the future!

Been trying to track one down for years. I had the 4 channel, not big on power but damn they looked awesome!

Reminds me of the late 90's Memphis audio amps just way longer.

I actually owned one in 2001 in South Africa. Got stolen out of my car unfortunately... Fortunately, it got stolen about 2 days after it blew up.

It’s a very odd but honest amp. If you bought this back in the day, you were looking to make a visual impression. That layout makes no sense except for a system meant for displaying. There were many more space efficient amps with those ratings. Keep bringing us these weird ones Big D.

Looks like the 90s lanzar HC amps, but they were black and alot smaller. I think I had a 50.2 maybe it was 100.2lanzar HC on 2 kicker circle solo 12s.. last a good few years in high school!

I like seeing stuff I've never seen before. Speaking of that, are you still planning to do a review of the two 18" Skar subs used for home theater? I would love to see that

I came to see the insides of this amplifier.

The high price was due to the extra aluminum for the show

I have seen these amps about 3 years ago. I was curious about them and see how they do.

Love it… keep Bringing it

I love your videos !!! Do you have your magazines digitalized?? That would be great!!

That’s an cool ass amp!!

At the 6:00 mark the Bridge results says Down4Sound JP 10.4

I thought it was an Audio Art when I first saw the thumbnail.

It's what is called a "corporate rebrand".

Heard of it but I'm an old pro. Nice vid!

Its amazing now days you can buy a 1000 watt amp for pretty cheap.

I was gonna say crankenstein had this also, but ya beat me to it.. USamps for the OEM

Anyone notice it said down4sound jp 10.4 on the results?

Looks like all the electronics would all fit in a basic 2 channel white pyramid heatsink chassis if compacted down. This is what you show your friends in 1996 telling em yeon want nun.