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shatteredzman:
The amp seems to work okay. My speakers are 15 watts RMS each and it powers them fine. I have the treble and bass at about 20% each, any higher and it starts distorting. I can turn the volume up to about 50% before it starts distorting which is enough to hear music from the other side of the house so that isnt a problem. Overall the sound quality is okay, it is about as good as my computers sound system but with less bass which is expected because it doesnt have a subwoofer. I dont know if its the amps fault but I had to get a ground loop isolator to get rid of noise from the computer. The amp doesnt feel sturdy at all to me so I made sure to treat it very delicately.
Gatsu:
yeah it felt really cheap and light when I opened the package.
Im gonna give it a test run tonight and see how it works. Hopefully it can handle it....if not I'm gonna have to look into either getting one made, or heavily modifying a car amp.....which I dont wanna do.
shatteredzman:
I read your thread and you got wall-mart brand speakers so I am pretty sure it will work. They say they are 100 watts but are more realistically 10-20 watts RMS. And if you do choose to go with a real brand amp make sure you check out mp3car.com , it is a forum dedicated to putting a computer in your car for your sound system. Your amp wont need to be modded in any way but you definitely wont be able to power it from your computer! I did the whole carpc thing so if you have any questions let me know.
Gatsu:
actually hooked it up to the speakers and a mp3 player and its working pretty well. I might get a different model later on so I can have a sub....but for now they work well enough. So I'm happy.
Thanks for the info. I'll check that site out.
shatteredzman:
What kind of subwoofer do you plan on using? A car subwoofer will need a more powerful amp then what you can get on ebay for $20. I have a 360 watt RMS amp which cost me $80 used on ebay but it runs at 30 amps which would be expensive to put together! The subwoofer was $50 and the box was $40. If I were you I would get a computer subwoofer which is what I would of done but my cab doesnt have room for one. It would probably be the cheapest and best overall way to go and you can keep the current sound system you have now. I hear the klipsch pro media subwoofers are good and it will probably power your speakers as well.
http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-speakers/klipsch-promedia-2-1/4507-3179_7-9807237.html?tag=mncol;psum
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