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11-04-2012 05:57 AM

tjamz

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

Bar none, the first "system" I put in my parents car back in 1986 or 1987 was the worst. It was made up entirely from product in the JC Whitney catalog.
From memory:
Head unit was Kawasaki
"amp" was an in dash 1/2 DIN 500 watt booster eq from Yamaha
rear speakers were some god awful 6x9's in a carpeted box

The only good thing about this was that I learned my lesson early on about going cheap on equipment and JC Whitney took everything back and refunded my money.... my next system that I purchased was all Rockford Fosgate Punch series (Punch 150, 75 & 45) and a Pioneer Premier DEH M66 head unit.. that was MUCH better.

08-04-2012 09:36 AM

Burkem_10

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

My brother got an enclosure from a friend for his 3 sony 12s way back in the day. It was originally intended to be for 3 10s sealed but was retrofitted to allow 12" woofers in the holes. There was a 3-4" circular hole in the box for the port. That thing was an abomination...

It wasn't long before we figured out that it sounded much better with the hole plugged so we used a sweatshirt to plug up the hole.

08-04-2012 09:29 AM

Fallen

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by tjamz

Rockwood Detonator amp from the mid 90's (rated at 150x2 @ 2 ohm stereo). I never owned one personally, but I did get the chance to bench test one that was purchased BNIB at a local pawn shop by a very loyal customer of mine (he bought it not to use, but just as a gag).

We hooked it up to the power supply, loaded it down to 2 ohm mono (I know... below rated ohm load), threw in some DJ Magic Mike and sat back with the meters hooked up and watched and waited. After about 5 seconds we hit the highest reading of 48 watts RMS.... about 30 seconds later it literally started on fire, but even the fire didn't last long as there was very little inside the amp to burn up.

Bwahaha

08-04-2012 06:59 AM

tjamz

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

08-02-2012 08:19 AM

49konvict

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

I had four concept audio tens that I picked up for 20 bucks for all four new. The specs were way off and I popped three with only 300 rms. It also blew out a channel on my opi a600.2 and the woofer output on my coustic xm3. Killed some nice oldschool goodness. Pissed me off

08-02-2012 12:15 AM

BiggJern

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

My Audiopipe amp. Currently not in use due to being in protect mode. anybody interested? lol

07-25-2012 12:47 PM

incman78

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Worst equipment, some scoche 10s lol. or my MA HK802sx lol let's draw 300A to make 2kw....seriously.

There's one of those ma hk802sx's on cl here locally and dude wants 600 for it lol.

Worst I had that I can remember was an autotek mm 12 from like 6 yrs ago. 700 max and 250 rms p.o.s. I popped the coil clean outta the gap on maybe 200 watts. Good thing I only had maybe 40 bucks in it.

07-25-2012 12:33 PM

perfect_prefect

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

lanzar vibe 3 way active xover. hooked it up turned it on and poof capacitor on board exploded. was brand new but not worth the effort to send it in for warranty, just took it as a lesson learned

07-25-2012 08:01 AM

Fallen

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by grandprixgtx

Sundown sa8s built several boxes according to sundown specs, on 1500rms clamped 1160rms and they didn't like it and never got all that loud compared to the 8s I replaced them with, very poor for the price!

something might have been wrong with them. I don't know home much better the v2s are, but they definitely get stupid loud in my setup.

Worst equipment, some scoche 10s lol. or my MA HK802sx lol let's draw 300A to make 2kw....seriously.

07-25-2012 01:13 AM

Squeezumz

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

The worst I've ever had to do for someone else was an amp kit. Bought from a local shop and was something along the lines of a never heard of Walmart brand. The power wire was barely 10 gauge and the speaker wire that came with was to small for the wire cutters I had. (18 gauge) Before doing this for him I reccomended that he use 4 gauge to future proof it. Sure enough now he wants more power...

07-24-2012 09:45 PM

SINTORMAN

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

I dunno if I ever contributed but I would have to say my worst piece of equipment I ever owned was my first sony deck lol. cheap POS lol.

07-24-2012 09:43 PM

SINTORMAN

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by grandprixgtx

You know that is past their rms and most likely dirty power right? Just about everyone else thinks sa8s are the cats pajamas buddy.

07-24-2012 09:25 PM

NJPCRX

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

The soundstream digi q that shorted out and fried my head unit, then when I got a new one under warranty it fried my Planet Audio 754 hybrid tube amp made by ZED audio that had been going strong for like 8 years.

07-11-2012 06:07 PM

rustyshank1

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

2 hifonics brutus 12" subs had 1000w rms on em and tried 3 different boxes 2 ported 1 sealed and they never got loud put 2000w to em and they sounded good for a day then one blew and the next day another one blew then i bought my rf p3 and wish i would have know about the sa12 i would have bought those for less money and had a better sounding subs

07-11-2012 05:00 PM

grandprixgtx

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

Had two sa8s, and lol no the 1160 was clamped for the pair, audiopipe apsm1500 mini amp, rise to 1.9ohms, best $122 I've ever spent and I replaced a pair of old ma audio ma8xls, they took the power better but not really any louder, and I could easily bottom them out in all 3 boxes, tuned 35-37hz just wasn't happy for the money

07-11-2012 04:51 PM

profundus-sanus

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

what 8's did you replace them with? 1100 clamped per sa8 is a lot of damn power haha.

i'm not going to go with worst but more so most hated piece(s) of equipment.

alpine 9887+ imprint module(didn't hold a candle to my 880prs), ma hk4000d(lanzar opti2000d crushed it in output and efficiency), and the maxxlink...(they're complete garbage. cause nothing but problems.)

i think maxxlink would be on the top of the most hated.

07-11-2012 04:38 PM

grandprixgtx

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07-11-2012 03:18 PM

Squeezumz

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Thread bump!

The first piece of audio gear I ever bought. Found a set of 5 way, yep 5 way, Pioneer 6x9's that had a frequency response of something like 23 Hz to 25 Khz. I thought I wouldn't even need subs with this amazing set.

About 2 months after installing them they had blown woofers so I cranked the bass setting on my HU to compensate. To be fair they did sound decent before that.

09-15-2011 12:41 PM

lanman31337

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

Hmmm, worst gear... Most Sony gear from around 2000+ fits into that category.

09-15-2011 09:37 AM

Brian10962001

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by Boosted77

Power Acoustik FUBR 12's. I went through three within like 6 months in a single sub set-up. I was running 500 watts RMS to them but they just couldn't hold any power. Though I gotta admit I'm pretty sure I clipped the absolute piss outta them and didn't break them in at all. Just installed them and turned the the gain and bass boost all the way up on that Walmart TIS1802 amp and then turned the sub output down on my head unit to compensate. Since joining here I have learned how to set gains properly so, who knows now. I still have one I can send back for the new PA P3 for $45 shipped.

I know the new MOFO's get really loud and tolerate some serious abuse. They're over rated, my neighbor has one sounding a little funny now off of 1000rms, but much like the Audiopipe amp feeding it, it's cheap crap that slams and keeps on working (he's a distortion monkey BAD STYLE!)

3 in a row, dang, where did everyone go?

09-14-2011 06:27 PM

Brian10962001

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by fosg8freak

jensen headunit... everythng eventually went wrong with it...

One of my good friends had a Dodge of some sort (we called it a Dodge Turtle), he had the Jensen 1.5 din with the blue lit up volume knob. You couldn't turn the radio down which wasn't so bad, we would crank it up when he wasn't around and he would be PISSED because he would have to unhook the battery and reset all his radio stations to get it turned down. Things got SO much better when the volume control had apparently taken a liking to our game and started to TURN ITSELF UP!!! That's right, it would turn itself all the way up randomly. He eventually just got used to it, it would crank itself while going down the road and it didn't even bother him he would just listen to the blaring distortion happily!

09-14-2011 06:20 PM

Brian10962001

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by Krannyman92

Funkypups...even though ive never used one

I have! They're not the worst out there

. The WORST for me was when Audiobahn first came around, at the time you could judge a cheap subwoofer from a good one by the build, they looked great. I ordered 4 Audiobahn 10's and man they looked stellar. Back then they were actually built from decent PARTS and you would think they were built well (so you would think, it's a trap). Good cast baskets, huge magnets and big coils. The first one of mine came apart at the spider riser (which they had BARELY GLUED TO THE BASKET). After that they started snapping their own tinsel leads which were stitched into the spiders. I paid a TON of cash to mail them back to Audiobahn when they still tried to act like a legit company, and they sent me 4 new subs that looked very much different. I tried one and it started acting funny within a week! I sold off all 4 of them as fast as I could and never looked back. I'de rather have the pups!!!

09-13-2011 10:21 AM

i love spl

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funky pup 8... / thread

1500 poasts ftw!

09-11-2011 08:35 PM

little-kid-wit-bass

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by armykyle1

dub audio if you guys remember those knock off audio bahn, I blew two with a pr1000 just to prove they wouldn't take 500 each l0l

Those sounded good............ In bandpass. Lol

09-11-2011 10:12 AM

xseveredveganx

Re: Worst piece of audio equipment ever used

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Originally Posted by profundus-sanus

worst piece of audio ever used eh?

herm.... would have to say alpine imprint... absolute pointless garbage

Dude, that sucks.

Mine... tough to say. I've owned a lot of nice equipment. My Soundstream XXX 15 kept going through recones. Could have been user error as far as installing the recone, but all 4 had the surround come off the cone.
Kenwood eXcelon KVT-815DVD. I owned it for a couple years and it just stayed in the box. Installed it in my xB and the flip-out screen broke on me about a year later.

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