Alpine System

[jdubau55]

Well I kind of held my tongue and was also confused by bigsky's post about the amp. I was thinking to myself what difference does it make what amp I use with the Focals? I mean...like you say, a watt is a watt. I can tell you for sure I will be using what I can truely afford if I do amp them. Which means 300 or less for my front\rear amp.

[Razr]

Originally Posted by jdubau55

Well I kind of held my tongue and was also confused by bigsky's post about the amp. I was thinking to myself what difference does it make what amp I use with the Focals? I mean...like you say, a watt is a watt. I can tell you for sure I will be using what I can truely afford if I do amp them. Which means 300 or less for my front\rear amp.

The key is just to buy into a quality brand. 100 undistorted Watts from an Alpine amp will sound the same as 100W from a Rockford Fosgate, MTX, Soundstream, Pheonix Gold, McIntosh, etc.. heck it'll even sound the same as a Pioneerache, Sony, Kenwood, Clarion etc, etc.

If you buy a POS bargain basement brand it might also sound the same, but you'll be saving money at the expense of reliability, features, build quality and backup support.

Stick the the big name brands and you won't go wrong.