Blown HT amp. Looking to replace.

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wr_anders
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Blown HT amp. Looking to replace.

#1 Post by wr_anders »

About 2 month ago, my house took a direct lightning strike. Among many of the electronics that gave up their magic smoke was my Dayton SA1000 amp.
It was powering a 36" THT with 2 Dayton DVC15's wired to 8Ω.

What would you recommend as a replacement amp?

The SA1000 was great, but it's gain stayed in the lower 10%.
I was looking at the SA230, but was off-put by it's 156w@8Ω. But then I looked at the SA1000's specs again and it only had 497w@8Ω.
Since I noticed that, I'm starting to think this it's a good idea to go with the SA230.

Thoughts?
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LET THE BASS CANNON KICK IT
Amps this big are basically arc welders with an input.:lol:
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Dual-15" THT
Dual-10" Auto Tuba
Dual-8" T18
Straight SLAs x2

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Bill Fitzmaurice
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Re: Blown HT amp. Looking to replace.

#2 Post by Bill Fitzmaurice »

I doubt you ever put more than 50w into it. It's a horn! :hyper:

hotbutta
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Re: Blown HT amp. Looking to replace.

#3 Post by hotbutta »

Change that "W" to a V and really jump for joy :fruit:

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Re: Blown HT amp. Looking to replace.

#4 Post by caddylackn »

wr_anders wrote: It was powering a 36" THT with 2 Dayton DVC15's wired to 8Ω.
I think that lightening cloud had bass envy and wanted to take out the competition :clap: .

I have had good luck with my Dayton 250 plate amp that powers my THTLP. I built separate plywood boxes for my plate amps with hole saw vents, painted them and mounted them either to the wall or back side of entertainment center out of site but easy to reach the controls. If one 250 amp doesn't do it with 150 watts at 8 ohm, get two amps one for each 4 ohm woofer or get a Dayton 500. I have also heard good things about the Bash 300 and 500 plate amps. The Yung 500w plate amp is on sale on PE right now, I run a Yung 300SD for my TT and it sounds great, doesn't get hot. The Crown 1000 watt amp is on sale also.

Another option is to build another 24" THT with a single DVC15 and run all three of the subwoofer dual voice coils in series (16 ohms) but wire all three subwoofers together in parallel to get 5.3 ohms and run them with a single amp. This may help with room nodes but you lose the ability to adjust phase between subwoofer boxes by running them all off one amp. If you have the floor space to move these around, not a big deal.

If it were me I would buy one plate amp, if it is not enough, get another, or return the first to get a bigger one.
16.5" AT w/ Infinity 860w
TLAHs w/ 9 mids & 16 tweets
17" THTLP w/ Dayton RSS315HF-4
16" TAT w/ Infinity 1060w
18" TT w/ Dayton DCS-205-4
5.5" TrT w/ DCS-205-4
T-18 w/ DCS-205-4
33" THT w/ Dayton Titantic 1200
DR200s

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