Amp Bench Test time!! Which ones?
#31
05-24-2017, 07:19 AM
UPDATE!
Yesterday I sent our resident expert AAWAV these amps:
DD D4
MMats MD4100
JL MX500/4
DB Drive Neo4
Diamond Audio 800.4
I'll say this I had a chance to play with the 800.4 again connected to the Arc DSP, and bridged it to a set of 10's and it sounded awesome. Not perfect....but really damn good. It got me thinking of trying other new items so I went ahead and ordered the grand daddy of them all yesterday and have an MMats 6150 on the way. For those that don't know how awesome this amp is it is 150x4 @4ohm, 250x4 @2ohm, and channels 5 and 6 are 1ohm stable and produce 500w x 2 @1ohm. That's a 2000w amp!
Lets see how these guys do. I'm very interested in seeing how the Diamond does on the bench and the new MMats. More importantly I'd like to get AAWAV's thoughts on how they SOUND!! Maybe I can get him a set of MMats 601's out today to test out as well
Yesterday I sent our resident expert AAWAV these amps:
DD D4
MMats MD4100
JL MX500/4
DB Drive Neo4
Diamond Audio 800.4
I'll say this I had a chance to play with the 800.4 again connected to the Arc DSP, and bridged it to a set of 10's and it sounded awesome. Not perfect....but really damn good. It got me thinking of trying other new items so I went ahead and ordered the grand daddy of them all yesterday and have an MMats 6150 on the way. For those that don't know how awesome this amp is it is 150x4 @4ohm, 250x4 @2ohm, and channels 5 and 6 are 1ohm stable and produce 500w x 2 @1ohm. That's a 2000w amp!
Lets see how these guys do. I'm very interested in seeing how the Diamond does on the bench and the new MMats. More importantly I'd like to get AAWAV's thoughts on how they SOUND!! Maybe I can get him a set of MMats 601's out today to test out as well
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Moto Mike (05-24-2017)
#33
05-24-2017, 12:29 PM
UPDATE!
Yesterday I sent our resident expert AAWAV these amps:
DD D4
MMats MD4100
JL MX500/4
DB Drive Neo4
Diamond Audio 800.4
I'll say this I had a chance to play with the 800.4 again connected to the Arc DSP, and bridged it to a set of 10's and it sounded awesome. Not perfect....but really damn good. It got me thinking of trying other new items so I went ahead and ordered the grand daddy of them all yesterday and have an MMats 6150 on the way. For those that don't know how awesome this amp is it is 150x4 @4ohm, 250x4 @2ohm, and channels 5 and 6 are 1ohm stable and produce 500w x 2 @1ohm. That's a 2000w amp!
Lets see how these guys do. I'm very interested in seeing how the Diamond does on the bench and the new MMats. More importantly I'd like to get AAWAV's thoughts on how they SOUND!! Maybe I can get him a set of MMats 601's out today to test out as well
Yesterday I sent our resident expert AAWAV these amps:
DD D4
MMats MD4100
JL MX500/4
DB Drive Neo4
Diamond Audio 800.4
I'll say this I had a chance to play with the 800.4 again connected to the Arc DSP, and bridged it to a set of 10's and it sounded awesome. Not perfect....but really damn good. It got me thinking of trying other new items so I went ahead and ordered the grand daddy of them all yesterday and have an MMats 6150 on the way. For those that don't know how awesome this amp is it is 150x4 @4ohm, 250x4 @2ohm, and channels 5 and 6 are 1ohm stable and produce 500w x 2 @1ohm. That's a 2000w amp!
Lets see how these guys do. I'm very interested in seeing how the Diamond does on the bench and the new MMats. More importantly I'd like to get AAWAV's thoughts on how they SOUND!! Maybe I can get him a set of MMats 601's out today to test out as well
just kidding - prepping the test this week (need to extend the power bank with more load options. Saturday will be the main test day. Weather is going to be upper 90s! but I got a 42 inch drum fan avail LOL.
will keep you all posted...
#36
05-31-2017, 10:40 AM
#38
05-31-2017, 02:42 PM
teaser (only one for now; just hang in there):
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
#39
05-31-2017, 02:46 PM
teaser (only one for now; just hang in there):
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
#40
05-31-2017, 02:46 PM
teaser (only one for now; just hang in there):
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
DD D4 (spec'd Cont. Wattage at 90/120/240) :
4 x ~78.5 Watt @ 4 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
4 x ~120 Watt @ 2 ohm (14.1 Vdc In)
2 x ~225 Watt @ 4 ohm bridged (14.0 Vdc In)
Warm sounding amp, neutral on highs
with 1KHz sine wave, clipping on scope occured BEFORE clip indicator would light up!
Those are great numbers considering that specs are posted based on 14.4v which is slightly higher. So at 14.0v (an HD running) you get 225 x 2.....pretty darn sweet.
