just bought 2 Alpine V12- MRV amps at a pawnshop couple months ago for $50 each & an old Type-R12 for $35, perfect for a budget build! good stuff

Wouldn't mind seeing more Alpine amplifiers on the dyno.

Alpine amps from late 90's....really warmed my heart Thanks, BigD!

I love seeing this generation of v12 amps tested. My first sub Amp was an alpine mrv-100m. If you ever find one of those I would have love to see what it did. This Amp was my first stereo heart break as it was stolen from my car at 17 along with my 2 pioneer impp 10s in a custom ported box. Thank you

Oh sweet! I've been waiting for this one. I have had 3 of these amps over the years. I still have 2 and i'm putting them into my suburban (doing the build on my channel), each one on it's own 15" Type-R. I love this amp! They sound amazing, not just loud, but clean and they reproduce the fine details of music.

I had 4 of these amps pushing 4 of the 12" solobaric L7s when they first came out in like 2000-2001. My first setup was 2 of them driving 4 4ohm 12" solobaric L7s running it at 2ohm mono. Bought 2 more and put 1 of them to each solobaric and those subs took it like a champ. The bass was tighter and the low notes were hitting WAY harder. Alot more good power for digging out those low notes (like 40hz and less). Also have the Alpine 757 2 channel to some custom kick panels and a Alpine 407 to all the interior speakers. All boston acoustic Pros. Car was so friggin loud lol. Finally getting back into the bass head game, I wish everyone was still driving around pounding there stereos like we did back in the day, that shit was so awesome!

I'm currently running this on (4)12" Rockford HE2's....@2ohms..it's insanely loud!

This was my 2nd amp I bought back in 2002.. coming from a 2 channel Jensen 300w(my very 1st amp) amp to this was a big jump for me. This amp cooked my 12inch Jensen sub lol. After upgrading to a JBL GT 15inch I was in love.. the good old days haha

Now that's a good looking amp. Hard to believe that power was so expensive back in the day. Thanks Big D

I had a smaller v12 amp that I just used for running a 18 inch stroker back in 2001. I loved it!

Thanks for testing this amp. I have one, but was skeptical about using it for full range use so I'm going to hook it up to a single Boston Acoustics 10.5LF Pro. It's 2ohm, but with the available power headroom I won't need to push it too hard and overheat it. At my age I'm more into accuracy now, not making my heart palpitate like my youth.

6 years later, and i stuck with 15 year old me's plan!!!! I got my Alpine MRV-1507 hooked up with 1/0 gauge OFC wire. And it is driving two 12" Kicker L7R122's in a sealed box, wired in series parallel getting 2 ohms bridged. The two woofers together have a total of 1200 watts RMS, and at 2 ohms as seen here, it's 1200 watts RMS at 2 ohms bridged!!! Before this I was running a single 12" Lanzar Max ST and a Lanzar Vibe 241 amp at 4 ohms bridged. It served me well, but it's nothing compared to the Kickers and the Alpine MRV-1507!!! I'm giving that old sub to my brother now.

that is one killer gut shot. So much going on and still working after all these years. Well built is an understatement

The older MRV class like MRV-T500 used T03P style output transistors and included stamped brass jumpers only for the power supply and output transistors, it used B688 and D718 transistors, they love regulated power supplies! But it was a somewhat impressive amp and flawed, the boards used to be green and cheaply made, as you show they later switched to blue versions, the traces on the MRV-T500 had a major issue, they would use lots of thin wire jumpers along traces for the main inputs and outputs of the amp, since the traces would often just burn in half and break a connection, they could have used heavier copper traces instead of the 1 oz ones! The glass epoxy boards were even filled or opaque and just glassed on both sides instead being of a solid multilayer glass epoxy board that is nearly transparent! Seeing the 1507 guts shows they made many upgrades over a the next few years to improve product quality, but may still include some jumpers to protect a trace! The difference in the quality of the board then is similar to the Polk Audio's design of today, but at least Polk does have thicker traces and no jumpers running parallel through them, Alpine obviously knew this was a flaw in their design and manufacturing, so they opted for hoping jumpers along them would decrease heat buildup and increase current flow and prevent burn through's! They do have nice clamps for the transistors from that era, where they later changed to a cheaper design that mounted directly to the amp, but I hated the separate mounting bars that had to be fastened to the heat-sink like the 1507 shows, it is not one solid piece! It requires way more thermal paste and if it dries "Like it always does", the connection to the main heat-sink will not be as efficient for heat transfer as it would with fresh thermal paste. But it is easy to disassemble just the mounts and leave the transistors clamped to them to clean and freshen the bond! The difference can be as much as a 6-15 degree drop in temps! Still even the MRV-T500 had some impressive numbers, like the 1507 shows it should, but the design should have been better for the price Alpine was always known for charging consumers! See if you can find a Earthquake 400TX to dyno, I'd like to know what it's numbers are! As well as a Kenwod Excelon KAC-X1R!

Impressive!! Love those old school Alpine amps!! 😍

This amp was a beast back in the day I love to have one now

I noticed those pages were stuck together on your 1999 amp buyer's guide. Hmmmm mine too

I loved this amp back in the day. I had it on 4 jl 12w3 s in sealed box and it sounded Great. I loved the fan it said play loud on it. Thanks Big D .👍👍✌

OMG cant believe you tested this amp..I had 3 of these back in the day. This vid made my day :)

This brings back some great memories. I had 3 type R 15”s and 1 mrv-1507 per speaker in a 1997 Nissan Altima with 5 batteries. I was young and dumb back then. It was loud as hell. Shattered my rear windshield one cold morning. Good times😁😁

thanks again Big D! I never owned any Alpine amps but after seeing your test I wish I would have looked at them little more. Anyway thank you again for your Videos.

very clean and powerful old skool amp, way better on reactive loads than resistive very clean frequency and playback. Well underrated.

Love alpine amps. Used to have one running the bass. They sound sooo smooth. Currently running a V12, same vintage as this one for the mid/high.

I just build a retro sound system in my 1989 Mercedes 560 sel and I'm running a alpine cda7894 headunit and 3342 eq sound field controller, all feeding into a alpine v12 amplifier, this one being the f357 5 channel variant. She feeds 4 sets of 3 ways and will get a sub on channel 5 soon. Crisp sound and it gets very loud but without distortion! Great amp

I still have my MRV 1505 2 or 3 years older same amp without the fan and different color and it is a beast!

To this day still one of my favorites, I have 2 of them still

I had this amp in my cars between 2000 and 2010. It died from overheating on a hot summer day. RIP, V12!

Beautiful amps they where back in the days :)

Just plucked a broken MRV-1505 off E-bay a few days ago. Same day it arrived I fixed it and sounds awesome! I had a T757 and a T503 back in 2001 pushing a HCCA 12" (Dual VC) and some MB Quart components when I was competing in SQ. Spring Break Nationals Daytona Beach 2001-2002 who was there? Still have my shirt too lol

I have one of these I bought brand new in 99 and it was bridged mono running 3 JL 10w0 subs in a sealed box. Back in 99 I hit 147db in a cavalier Z24 haha. Was and still is one bad ass amp.

nice channel!

thank you soo much bigdwiz. I have a pair of t757s and an f407. nice to know they make rated. I always thought they were super clean sound, just never knew about those max specs.

I wouldn't recommend running these 1507's at 2 ohms bridged. They are not rated for this in the manual and specs. They can blow up if used like this for an extended period of time. I get more of these amps for repair because of use at 2 ohm or lower. 14.4v Per channel into 4 ohms ......................... 225W, 0.08% THD Per channel into 2 ohms .......................... 450W, 0.3% THD Bridged into 4 ohms ................................ 900W, 0.3% THD Bridged into 2 ohms ..................................MAGIC SMOKE

Oh, i remember the good old times, when i had this amp in my car between 2000 and 2010.

The V12 MRV-1507 was a badass amp back in the day. I had one powering my JL Audio 10w5's (very rare JL's back in the day) and I had a V12 MRV-757 powering my highs and mids. It sounded pretty awesome for only having 2-10's. I can't remember what I hit but it was above 140 and that wasn't bad back then for what I had. I switched to JL 12w6's and hit 148 with the same amps. I loved my Alpine V12's.

thank god somebody finally amp tested a alpine amp I hope the newer models put out the what the claim to have, good vid wiz!

The most interesting guts I ever saw. Electrical wonderland! Thank you Big D!

Bro you are awesome! My uncle gave me this amp after his 1987 Nissan 300zx broke down. I plan on installing this amp with two woofers once I get a car, But I wanted to get 2 woofers that have an rms power handling close to what this amp puts out.

I still own this Beast in 2021 and Is thinking about putting this Beast back to work🤔

Would love to see you test an Alpine PDX-V9! Everyone seems to love that amp but I have never seen any one test it to see if makes the rated power or not.

Love watching all the old school amps

So glad you did a test of this amp. I’ve been wondering what power it has. I’m running a 250w rms 12” 4ohms sub bridged and Jesus it’s pushing the power. Sounds crazy. I thought with the size of the thing it would been giving out 1000w per Channel but 225 👀 that’s a joke really

Nice channel. Love the old amp loving. I still have a 5channel V12 in the loft. Only problem is its a monster in size!

I can just imagine 2 18 inch old school jl audio on this beast.

The magic of the 1507 et al is not just the pure horsepower, but the fact that it does it down to DC with zero phase errors. That's no mean feat, and with the right drivers and the right cabinet you get fully-bad deconstruction of nearby objects and frantic approaches by shop owners who want their objects to remain on-selves etc. No joke - I've had a car full of teenagers jump out and run, and a whole street of retailers begging for the safety of their shops. Direct-coupled speakers and dual-gap speakers are god. Serious. Try it. Edit: add some BBE and rip the neighbourhood a new asshole.

This one brought back some memories.

I have that amp's baby brother - the MRV-T757 - in my 1999 Pathfinder on 2 Rockford 10's. This has been an amazing amp for many years. I see the Alpine remote in your hand. I have a couple of those remotes.

i have one of these, I got it for free when i bought a ppi pcx-2200 for a bargain, I did not know it was 1 ohm stable. It sounds great, in full range and on subs too.

Great job Big D and very impressive results with that amp for 1999 and bumping prince party like its 1999 😜 no but on a serious note that alpine would have been worth the hefty price for that kind of power at that time.

Question in general about amps. How does it draw more than 80 amps in the test yet the fuse doesn't blow?

I have an MRV-F545 built around 2005/06. The one with the contoured cast alum heat sink. 125w x 4 @ 4 ohms or 250w x 4 @ 2ohms or 500w x 1 @ 4 ohms and 250w x 2 @ 2 ohms. Would be great if you benched one of these.

Wow cool to see you tested a V12, I have an MRV-F307 4 channel in my truck, got it at the little thrift store kinda place we have here in town who sell antiques also. I knew for sure it was a few years old by its styling but 1999? Damn the thing is 2 years older than I am (young stereo enthusiast here). My 307 claims 4x50watts rms at 4 ohm but it definitely puts out more than that, setting the gain with my scope and it almost blew out my speakers while I was adjusting it to no clipping, I guess this thing was not made with 5V level inputs in mind because I decided to just have it nearly at minimum gain as to not completely blow out my speakers at max volume, still gets insanely loud. Do you by chance have a way of sending a photocopy of that magazine page with the V12 amps featured in it? I thought I saw the 307 in there, it'd be cool to see.

love your vids! can you do more dynos on alpine amps? Seems to be a lack of alpine dynos. im curious on the pdx-m12 and mrd-m1005 myself.

Always happy to give a thumbs up 👍👍

those alpine amps all had a very clean bass response..you have any of the 90s California amps??

Had the mrv 1505 on 3 jl audio w3 12's an absolute monster amp on these subs. I could kill the people whole stole it. My absolute dream to build and alpine x jl audio system in the future this combo is an absolute beast.

Great review of a great amp!!!

I have one of these and two MRV-T707's all NEW in the box. I bought them for an install years ago and never used them.

Do you remember, and have any info or links, to a Dodge truck Alpine built about 1995? Seems like they may have built more than one and they were a dually? They launched the Alpine Disc Drive test cd about the same time. I've searched untill my brain hurts so I need a professional.

I just bought a 5 channel for 50$ works great

Bigd, do you recall if this was tested with the normal +12 input, or did you remove the plastic cap and connect it "battery direct?" the manual states it produces more power in battery direct.

Hey big D just got a really good deal on a alpine v12 MRV-F353. Bought it for 30$. And wanted to see if you’ve dynoed this amp. ?

I always wanted one of those amps

I had two of these 1507's back around 2008. I picked them up for less than $200 each, and I could kick my own ass for it, because they're insanely expensive now. I miss the beautiful A/B sound.

I got this right now hook to a 1 8." DD red line but it only sounds like if I had it on volume 1 any help

I mean one of the tests showed it had a draw of 175 amps. (That is more than double the 80 amp fuse)

Very interesting. Can you do more PPI PC/PCX series?

I had one of these with 2 MTX thunder 8000’s (I think they were 12 inchers). When I was way younger. Is that a good setup? I really don’t know much about what’s good regarding car stereos

About to pick one of these up at local pawn shop😎

Trying to get a understanding at what wattage/amps its running at the 1 ohm level Thank you very much

what sort of rms power would an old alpine mrv-t707 do?

Hey there I have a MRV-F505 with all original paperwork and certificate. Do you know what the MSRP was back in 1997

Solid amp!

There is one of these on ebay now just beat to heck terminal screws all stripped out and one terminal missing with a wire coming out of it that is soldered direct for $250 and I almost want to buy it after seeing that dynamic run at 2 ohms.

honest wattage, I like that

I had this amp and it drew some power. I needed some big caps to keep my battery charged on my car.

Very pretty on the inside. Give's me a woody.

In 1999, were Alpine amps made in USA?

now thats a thing of beauty ftw

Been a while can you run 2 dual 4s on this amp on each channel that would be 2ohm onhms on each channel in 2 channel mode or would that be 1 ohm mono. Like todays amps

Just gorgeous looking amp sometimes just the looks made you buy it

Was the parametric eq activated? If so any guess to what it was set at

I had 2 of the 400 watt V12s and a older V12 pro series.

Dynamic power is usually where alpines really shine besides making more watts than rated.

hey D thanks for the amp test that u do, i was wondering where your from.

I paid over $1000 bucks when this came out. Now im looking for it again. Anyone selling this amp and in great working condition hit me up.

No wonder my system sounds so good since i hooked up the F-407

these older v12 amps are great amps. I have a 2 channel and a 4 channel and both are great. I wish i had this beast to go along with its smaller brothers.

I have a even older alpine V12 with me, an MRV-F400. Not sure much about those apart from that they were pretty costly back in the 90s? It saw service in 3 different cars and it's still going but it's now sitting at home doing nothing because I just want to give a dignified retirement although it still looks fantastic I never used it in real service at home because it's a class B amp and I have much better amps doing service for hifi so i don't really give much thought about putting it into service again

Do you remember the L.A. Sound amps? Hermosa was a decent amp from l.a. sound...

I'm not sure if we got unlucky, or these amps just sucked, but the shop where I worked at kept getting these V12 alpines returned. They always seemed to fail on the customer. Maybe their "protect mode" was too strict?

Looking for this Amp. Had the same one back in 2000 it got stolen. Have many systems since then but this was the best Amp I ever had. If anyone knows where I can find one please let me know or if there is a new Amp out that is just as good

Cool video, I would love to see the bench of the 1505 if however you could put a hand on it :-))

I love old School car audio it's crazy how you can find so many deals on Craigslist n Facebook for so cheap.If these kids only had a clue.? what's the biggest difference in a A/b sub amp vs Class D I know the obvious efficiency but what's the other

Not sure if you still have that magazine, can you see how much a CVA 1005 was new in 1999? I have one sitting in my garage.

Interested in what pdx amps would do.

I remember they were always notoriously hot temperature wise

I’ve had this amp for years and just picked up 1xhippo 84 4ohm dvc. If I use the 4ohm bridged for 900w and only use one of the voice coils on the hippo (equal 4ohm), does that half the wattage since I am using only 1 voice coil? If wired the sub in parallel to equal 2 ohm, the end result would be the same?

Not bad at all. Great video

Can you do the Alpine MRV-757