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im in the process of buying 2 amps for my 6x9's/splits and sub. came across this thing on ebay.

i think its a little out of my $500 budget

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/soundstream-class-a...1QQcmdZViewItem

would something like this really make that much of a difference considering for the same price you could deck out a whole car? WTF?

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well you can get mono block pre amps that cost over 30,000 each. then you also need a power amp, a source and speakers.

So that is fairly cheap.

Quality hi-fi ie nothing you will find at any standard retailer, costs a lot but is worth it.

My dad has spend at least 30,00 on our hi-fi and it consists of 2 speakers, an amp, and a cd player.

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they look sweet... but cost price is about $2500 not retail it retails $8000 .. was going to get one but to much bling for me..

And didnt wanna make dr doof doof upset :)

btw that amp is not worth 10g thats a picaso neways which is old and is look orintated vrs sound output .. but the soundstream im talkin bout is big boom boom forgot its name but its chrome and a meter long

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"soundstream class a picasso (CHEAT AMP) rated at 25 watts RMS * 4 at 12 volt at 4 ohms one of the worlds best sound stage amps"

can you explain why this is worth 10k FRX? i always love learning new things :)

firstly, i dont think it's worth 10k at all. in my other post i stated these used to retail brand new for arounf $2500.

$10000 is ridiculous for this amp.

The main reason why people would have bought this amp is that is massively under rated.

at 4 ohm it is 25rms x 4. At 1 ohm lets say 125rms x 4.

Back in the old days people used to buy amps with a small power rating that would load up, this was done for SQ competitions where you had to fit into a power class. Power classes were determined on the rated rms power at 4 ohms. But if you could have an amp where if you wired it up a certain way you got more power then you had the advantage.

At one stage soundstream produced an amp that was 2 x .5wrms. Yep half a watt per channel at 4 ohm. But, load it to 1/4 ohm and it would run about 600 rms. Sure the amps got hot, sure it shortened their life. But it also made some tech head wankers able to say there car was less than 3 watts rms and could produce 150 db+.

Buy todays standards of D-class amps this is out dated.

If anyone was to buy it they would only get it because it is old skool soundstream, not the new stuff that is crap.

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firstly, i dont think it's worth 10k at all. in my other post i stated these used to retail brand new for arounf $2500.

$10000 is ridiculous for this amp.

The main reason why people would have bought this amp is that is massively under rated.

at 4 ohm it is 25rms x 4. At 1 ohm lets say 125rms x 4.

Back in the old days people used to buy amps with a small power rating that would load up, this was done for SQ competitions where you had to fit into a power class. Power classes were determined on the rated rms power at 4 ohms. But if you could have an amp where if you wired it up a certain way you got more power then you had the advantage.

At one stage soundstream produced an amp that was 2 x .5wrms. Yep half a watt per channel at 4 ohm. But, load it to 1/4 ohm and it would run about 600 rms. Sure the amps got hot, sure it shortened their life. But it also made some tech head wankers able to say there car was less than 3 watts rms and could produce 150 db+.

Buy todays standards of D-class amps this is out dated.

If anyone was to buy it they would only get it because it is old skool soundstream, not the new stuff that is crap.

Couldnt have put it better myself

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A few years ago I had a listen to an awesome hi-fi system at a store. It was amazing (I heard instruments in some songs on a CD I took with me that I'd never heard before), but the setup cost about as much as my car.

^^^

It is quite amazing isn't it. Being able to pinpoint individual instruments around you, and if it's setup correctly (espcially with no rear speakers, which are useless in music) it's amazing how you can certain certain instuments around the room coming from different places.

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I used to own a Marantz setup. I like my music and so I didn't want to buy some shitty Japanese mini system, but at the same time I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) spend the big dollars. I just tried that rig out to see if it was that good.

I'd still rather spend the $50,000 that setup cost on a car. And that setup wasn't even using the top-of-the-line components offered by the store.

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even though marantz is good, it is not real hi-fi stuff. Some stuff is just on a completely different level, Mind you dad did have a chinese made SACD player for a while. It used a sony transport and DAC and was really good till it died. (dodgy sony parts) and it was a cheap SACD player. But hearing a reference sony sacd player is amazing as well.

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