mtx amps
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Topic: mtx amps
Posted By: Ketel22
Subject: mtx amps
Date Posted: April 02, 2004 at 9:54 PM
is the mtx 421d (2003) a good amp for the money? ------------- Quad L Handyman services
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Posted By: Sobe_Death
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 1:30 AM
MTX amps are among the top 5 picks on my list of amps. i find they are more reliable than rockford fosgate (within the past 2 years of fosgates models or so), and they just seem more efficient than most to me. i can run my 4202(bridged 2ohms, they say they are only rated to 4) as hard as my ears can take, and it barely gets warm. the only time it got hot was when i accidentally threw my jacket in the back on it, and the protection circuitry shut down the amp before it felt as hot as any of my rockford amps ever did. id say you wont be dissapointed with MTX
Posted By: netboy
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 1:47 AM
Funny Sobe_Death you say that, since mtx is on the bottom of my list. I had a MTX 405(5 ch amp). It rocked when I first got it, it was running 2 12" mtx 3000s and some mb quart components. After about 2 months, I was rocking out then all of the sudden it died....hmmm i thought it just go thot since it was the Georgia summer. So I dropped the back seat to get some air to the amp and turned on the a/c . Hmmm....damn thing never turned on. 12v remote...good, 12v power....good, ground....good. WTF? Took it back to the MTX dealer, they confirmed it is dead, no idea why, but they replaced it. Well I had to wait for 3 weeks, but I got a new one. So this new one lasted a good while, maybe 2 years. Then all of the sudden the right front speaker is going hay-wire, sounds like it is blown, but to do some testing, i switch RCAs on the amp to see if it is the amp. Everything good, then i swapped actually speaker wire at the amp, turns out to be a bad ch. So I wire it in parrelell with the left front speaker so we all good for a few months, then the sub ch. dies. nothing, speaker test ok, no burnt VC, and it passed the continuity test on my dmm. So i bought a Memphis mc-1300. Now I am one happy dude. Just my 2 cents. Never had a problem with the old amps that looked like bricks. I loved my old Thunder 280. Fist amp i bought and it still works to this date, it is in my sisters car just rocking a way.
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Memphis MC-1300
2 12" JLw6v2
Diamond audio M3 6x9
Diamond audio M3 5.25 components
Audio control Matrix
Carputer
Posted By: Sobe_Death
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 2:18 AM
yeah i live in GA too, near savannah out in the boonies! im not sure why, but it just seems like my amp doesnt even break a sweat. Memphis is one of those top 5 too, along with PPI, Zapco, and JBL.
Posted By: lagatbezan
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 12:20 PM
MTX also on my top 5 list. Very clean and powerful amps. We have one hooked up in our show room from 4 years ago and that thing is on every day from 10 to 6! Still kicking!
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:29 PM
Im a big fan of the mtx stuff. I sell it and rockford and Ill take a MTX amp any day of the week over a kicker, rockford, alpine, planet, concept, Lightning or pheniox gold. Thats just some of the amps I could think of right now. I have never laid my hands on a memphis so I cant really comment on them. Zappco is really good but very expensive. I dont like JL amps but they seem to be fairly solid. The MTX is still a very good choice in my opinion
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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:36 PM
Although I wouldn't put MTX in my top five they are good amps. Much better in general than the competition in this price range. Sorry to hear about your problems, netboy. I hate to say it, though, that is the sort of thing that does tend to happen in these mid-level Chinese made amps, though... Memphis and JBL are in a class above MTX, and Zapco in the class above that, IMO.
Posted By: netboy
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:42 PM
MTX isnt made in the US anymore? I heard that they changed factories but didnt know they changed countries.
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Memphis MC-1300
2 12" JLw6v2
Diamond audio M3 6x9
Diamond audio M3 5.25 components
Audio control Matrix
Carputer
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 6:48 PM
MTX amplifiers are assembled in China.
Posted By: netboy
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 7:00 PM
Wow that sucks...MTX rocked when they were made here in the states. What companies still make products here in the US?
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Memphis MC-1300
2 12" JLw6v2
Diamond audio M3 6x9
Diamond audio M3 5.25 components
Audio control Matrix
Carputer
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: April 03, 2004 at 8:04 PM
Not very many. They are now mostly made in singakoreachinatiawanapore these days, seems that the manufacturers are locked in a who can build it the cheapest war right now and don't give a rat's a$$ about quality.
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: April 04, 2004 at 8:14 PM
MTX is still made in america. If Im not mistaken, the plant is down in pheniox but I cant remember for sure. I was just talking to my rep about this a couple weeks ago and he had just come back from the factory because one of the chain stores in canada had a contest and the winning salesmen got taken down to the plant where they were given the oppurtunity to build there own amps from scratch. I saw pictures from this trip so I know for sure they are still made in america. That and because they still say right on the box and in the manual that they are made in america
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: April 05, 2004 at 11:24 AM
OK, I am wrong and I apologize for spreading mis-information. I made a couple of calls this morning and it appears MTX was incorrectly placed on our list of off-shore manufacturers. They indeed still assemble and test their amps (all of them) in Phoenix. Some components come from China and elsewhere, but the product is made in the USA. I have updated our database with the correct info. MTX is an American company and their products are "made in America." Sorry for the confusion.
Posted By: _DIZZ_
Date Posted: April 05, 2004 at 1:53 PM
The only dislike is see is the THD of <1%... This is what i have read... I have never owned one.
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