hey a friend of mine is looking for mono 2000 watt class d amps..any suggestions as far as manufacturers go?

 

is he looking to compete with the amp? or is it just for daily use?
does he want 2000 RMS does he want 2000 peak?

 

competition D class, he is running orion subs that are 4000watts..lets say he wants a 2000 rms

 

look at Zapco, Hifonics, US Amps, Audison... depends how much he's willing to shell out.

 

i have 2 alpine 1000 watt mono amps, im willing to part with, each one was to an ID max 12 and i hit 156 DB with this setup in a maxima. hes gunna need one hell of an alternator and electrical system in his car for 4000 watts RMS

 

Where was the meter located and was it a TL? I had an 18" with 3,000w in an Accord and I only did 137...granted it was at 32 Hz and on music. I just don't see 2,000w and 156 dB belonging to the same sentence if it was a legal score.

For the OP, what Orion subs are they? I used to have the H2, fairly decent woofer. I'd recommend the orion 2500d, pretty good amp. The Hifonics and Power Acoustik would be another amp to consider if you're on a budget. I'd also recommend the RF Power series amps...they are quite solid and will put out more power than rated rms. I'd pass on Kicker amps from experience, they tend to get hot quite fast.

 

wasnt a legal thing, it was in my buddies shop, i know nothing about SPL and all that stuff, i was purely building an SQL car on a budget. I believe the meter was in the bottom corner of my passenger side? It looked like a mic. i broke 2 trunk locks on that car and put dents in it as well from all the pressure. it got fuggin loud, you could barely breathe inside the car if u put on a bass sweep or any loud music for that matter

 

Hmmm, would love to have heard it. Legal reading is using the TL (term-lab) with car off, windows up, doors closed, on the windshield. I think the loudest I've done is around mid 140's but never got the setup metered, just going by ear based on the setup I had before that. Also, the mic the TL uses doesn't really look like a mic, more like a rectangle.

I used to be into the loud bass thing, but then I starting liking getting loud at low frequencies. Like around 32 Hz, pretty crazy what it would do. I'd be parked on the street and the bass itself did not get loud, but shook things inside and out the car, like my neighbor's garage door 50 ft. away, lol. I truly loved the thing at 14 Hz notes, my windows would move about 1" or so. There was no sound, just resonating panels. Would love to have finished my setup...was gonna do 4 Alpine PDX 1.1000's on a single 18, but then I got in an accident and now I got a G

Those ID Max's get freaking loud though, heard them in a couple setups.