ummm... Where do I start? Let's just say "overrated" is putting it nicely. Lanzar USED to be only moderately good, but now they are classed with Audiobahn AFAIAC.
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
haemphyst, you said Lanzar amps are now classed with Audiobahn AFAIAC. What is this? Im assuming its better than "moderately good". I have a Lanzar amp -Vibe241 (1000watts max, yeah right!)- and ill say that it is alright. The only way I could get decent power from it is when I hooked it up in tri-mode. I had one KickerComp 10 (4Ohm) hooked to each side in stereo then a RF P1 12 (4Ohm) bridged. -Someone told me to use inductors on each speaker b/c the amp is designed for tri-mode with 2 4Ohm upper-frequency speakers on stereo then a 4Ohm woofer bridged. Is this true? I had the amp on full range b/c of my 80Hz LPF in my HU. Now I have it bridged on the 10's (parallel= 2Ohms). Though this is not recommended (and I wouldn't recommend it), it works! The amp gets warm but not unpleasantly hot. I've only popped the internal fuses once (no low-impedance protection) only b/c of a bass CD. Is this at all okay as long as the amp doesn't get too hot?
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2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator
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Um...Lanzar and Audiobahn are not Moderately good...they are crap. I've had a 600 watt max lanzar amp...claimed like 320 watts rms...with a 20 AMP FUSE!!!!! yeah right.
Both of them are crappy amp manufacturers...waste of money. That power you are getting jmelton is most likely a dirty clipped signal
aznboi3644; suprizingly enough, very little clipping- if any. The signal it gets is from an Alpine CDA-9830. The interconnects are MonsterXLN, which have a wire -I guess that just runs between the two sides- that is grounded at the HU side. Now, im not trying to defend Lanzars' suck-a** products, but since i've had my Vibe241 hooked-up 2Ohm bridged (Don't try this at home!) to 2 KickerComp 10's, i've been very impressed at it's performance and ability to keep...working.
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2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator
DDX470HD GTO14001 GTO1014D (x3)
Big3 in 1/0G
1/0G to GTO14001