98trans am

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i'm thinking of trading a guy for an amp. i currently have a DUB 2502 (it sucks, i know) powering two 10" solo baric 4 ohms (the old school round ones). i could get an alpine 1000 or an m450. both are mono amps. would the 1000 be overkill and/or would the 450 watt be worth the upgrade?

98trans am

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oh, the DUB is supposedly a 250 X 2 at that ohm but i doubt it since the dumb thing goes in protection mode all the time. suppose it would help to wire it to a 2 ohm load?

RsSean

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I have a alpine amp and all you have to do is turn the gain down to achive the bump that you want. The PDX amp with adjust for the correct ohms. Can't go wrong.

98trans am

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any other opinions on whether 1000 is too much or 450 is too small?

LS1-MEX

alpine is crap.........invest on a jl 500/1 you cant go wrong with it.

dragonrage

Alpine amps are (mostly) fine. I would say that their speakers/subwoofers a crap, though the guy has Kicker which are crap, too.

I have a JL 500/5, though, and the thing is awesome. I support people buying cheaper amps (as long as it's not like Pyramid/Pyle/Boss/Legacy cheap!) but I definitely don't regret buying my JL. I had 2 Pioneer amps die before this ROCK SOLID JL one.

Some good for the money reasonably cheap amps: Kenwood, Phoenix Gold, Hifonics, Directed (avoid the class A/B ones, and that goes for all brands - you want class D for subwoofers only. Hifonics still makes lots of A/B subwoofer amps.)

Alpine isn't generally all that cheap, so I don't generally recommend them, but their amps are at least not crap. Or at least the subwoofer amps aren't. Their ICEPower amps had problems with transistors blowing last I heard.

ChevyS10sbc

Good cheap route! Sony 1200:2 i have it powering my two tens. I've had it for 3 years now, use it hard every day and have not had a sigle issue.

dragonrage

Sony amps are crap. Complete crap. Close to as bad as Pyramid.