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"It's not that amazing of an amp" So hilarious!!! That's why this 15-20 year old amp still sells for 1K-1300 on ebay to this day. In good shape , mind you. A 1965 shelby gt-500 will sell for 100+++ thousand dollars... Or I can pick up an Atom for 30,000 dollars and run circles around the shelby...but the atom does not have the nostalgia that the shelby does. People will fork over that kind of money because of nostalgia and perceived value. Just because something is nostalgic doesn't inherently mean it is leaps and bounds better than everything else..eletrolytics and such inside of it will fail as they have a life span before they need to be replaced..

Yep, that amp is more hype than sweet. Nothing wrong with it though as it will do what you need. On top of that it is really absurd to put an "SQ" amp on a sub. You'd be hard pressed to hear 5% distortion so really a high efficiency amplifier makes a lot more sense. If you are truly into SQ no matter what amp you have you will be much more concerned with blending it with your front stage and a couple hundred watts ought to get you there unless you have some monstrous midbass drivers up front.

"It's not that amazing of an amp" So hilarious!!! That's why this 15-20 year old amp still sells for 1K-1300 on ebay to this day. In good shape , mind you. I dont care what people pay for them. There are MANY, MANY amps that will outperform that one. BTW: It didnt even put out rated power back in 1991. Fails 1/3 power test Only 660 watts

You are quite pompous. If you really knew what you were talking about you wouldn't be asking this question, because you'd already know that there is no minimum. A speaker will continue to have more excursion and more output in a very linear and predictable way with added power. More power = more of those two things. So unless you want to quantify a minimum excursion level in a given box, we can't tell you how much power it will take to get where you want it to be. I'll give you a hypothetical. 10 watts = 1 mm excursion 50 watts = 5 mm excursion 100 watts = 10 mm excursion 200 watts = 15 mm excursion 500 watts = 20 mm excursion 1000 watts = 28 mm excursion. So where along that chart would you qualify the sub as being "underpowered?" The numbers are made up but the situation is real.

It didn't. Don't worry about it. The bumps from everyday driving and the pump being used is what caused it's death. Has nothing to do with your bass.

I'd rather save weight by not using rears than by using less acoustic treatments. Net effect would be better sound as well Perhaps it would help us help you more though if you shared your actual goals. Right now we just know you want to "beef" up your doors which isn't easy for us to give you info on.

Another option would be... http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi Don will sell you only what you need for your application. I would suggest reading through each product description and make your choice.

More info and read noob posting guidelines before posting again. hey faget im not a noob i no my shit i was just asking to see what everyones opinion was

Why do you people do this? Make stupid comments to humor yourselves. Some subs will work well with say 500 watts, but they can handle quite a bit more...like 1000rms. Will the Fi Q perform well with 500-600 watts rms in a sealed enclosure. No need to tell you the power ratings of the Linear Power 8002SW. The amp is a monster and if you have never heard of it, you haven't been in car audio very long. It's a legend. Linear Power are pretty much top of the line when it comes to car amplifiers and are the most under rated of any I have used in the past 20 years.

"It's not that amazing of an amp" So hilarious!!! That's why this 15-20 year old amp still sells for 1K-1300 on ebay to this day. In good shape , mind you.

"It's not that amazing of an amp" So hilarious!!! That's why this 15-20 year old amp still sells for 1K-1300 on ebay to this day. In good shape , mind you. I dont care what people pay for them. There are MANY, MANY amps that will outperform that one. BTW: It didnt even put out rated power back in 1991. Fails 1/3 power test Only 660 watts Outperform in what way? There are some that are more powerful of course. Very few that sound as good and have as much control. This amp was way ahead of it's time. Name another amp that makes 1250 watts rms @ 8 ohm and also has a built in servo feedback circuit to monitor and correct damping in real time. You can't.

So how did they come to have this nostalgia? Until you have owned just about every amp that was made over the last 20 years and been able to personally compare Linear to those amps in a real amplication, then you have nothing to say. I have heard a Linear Power 2202 power 2 12's that sounded like most other 800 watt amps. This is off of an amp that is suppose to be 220 watts. They do not distort. They are so clean it's magical.

"It's not that amazing of an amp" So hilarious!!! That's why this 15-20 year old amp still sells for 1K-1300 on ebay to this day. In good shape , mind you. I dont care what people pay for them. There are MANY, MANY amps that will outperform that one. BTW: It didnt even put out rated power back in 1991. Fails 1/3 power test Only 660 watts This guy made up this post because he has a hard on for dissing Linear Power. Everyone that was around back then remembers this test and the Linears were raved. They were just on the pricey side. Didn't you ever wonder why the guy never posting the actual scan?

My amp would drown your two amps. Thanks for the opinion!

Hey dumb ass go here www.dcsoundlab.com, just contact rusty @ [email protected] or call him, 1-775-425-5700.

So clean its magical DOESN'T matter for shit on subs, you cannot hear distortion even on a pretty cheap class D amp. No way, no how. I have also heard an LP on a front stage and will say that it wasn't any more impressive than ANY other quality amp that I have heard. You bought into the fairy dust marketing hype big time. If not why not prove Richard Clark wrong with your "magical" amp. It's people like you who shouldn't even have car audio as a hobby. If you can't hear the difference from a class a/b to a class d on subs, you shouldn't even upgrade your stock system. Ridiculous. No need to prove Richard Clark wrong. I have owned just about every amp made in the past 20 years and still have about 70 amps at the moment, all old school, and nothing sounds like Linear Power. Nothing.

I would bet money that not one person that has replied and downplayed my amp has even owned one....that shows alot about your opinions. This is what you guys do. Join the crowd and attack the guy with the REAL experience instead of the guys who talk shit and know nothing. It's you that will miss out. As far as efficiency, lets see some pictures of your claims of my amp being 40% efficient. Lets see your meter reading an 8002SW at being 40% efficient. Didn't think so. Just another thing you read on the internet.

I am looking for more SQ than anything, with some good output of course. I plan to run an old school Linear Power 8002SW to two of these possibly. Would they be underpowered? If you are not familiar with this monster of an amp then please do not respond.