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I wanted a California amp so bad . One of my classmates had a nice truck with one of these pushing some 6X9s in the doors and some 8s in truck boxes behind the seat back in the day. It sounded really good.
...I worked at a shop that sold PPI and Orion and Eclipse and Zapco.and Arc. Every once in a while some one would bring these in for install. These Profile amps were cheaper...and sounded cheaper, but not bad....the American made MTX were great sounding, bulletproof amps....Back in the day, After work, I would drive my Honda Prelulde, that was packed with a Soundstream 1002 and a 604 Rubi, and a 15" Soundtream SPL, and MB Quart front stage to the CircuitCity Roadshop and hang out with and bullshit with the roadshop installers...and even with the Best Buy Rockford guys...those were the days my friend, so much fun
I had friends with California Profile stuff before and they seemed to work and sound fine. I think most people knew that they were less powerful than they claimed. I had a California Profile 15 subwoofer but I managed to kill it by fumbling a screwdriver right into the cone. I slipped and stabbed it dead on middle of the cone. I patched it with some E6000 and some paper from a donor subwoofer. I gave it away and the guy ran it for a few years and it seemed to hold up.
Thanks for the link to the older video, love seeing the old surfboard amps. Back when bigger was better. As much as I appreciate the tiny amps of today, these big ol guys are where my heart really lies. I have a monster Sony bnib one waiting for a retro install after the kids are out.
I carried them and targa for my low end,they had a 3ch in mid 90s that id sell as a package,1 petras cx 10" 4 fultron coax,head unit,and amp installed under $1k.actually pretty decent setup
Way back in the day, CA&E did a sub-$200 amp test. This was early 90's, probably like 91-92 time frame. The Profile came in first, and beat *a lot* of big named amps. They didn't suck for the money.
@@EarlPickle I've been there. I used to run 8 ohm subs on a 4 ohm amp, and wonder why they blew every 15 days. I used to wonder how a cheap ass Sony in a huge ported box had more SPL than my thunder 9500s in a sealed box. 🤣
@@EarlPickleCircuit City offerd a two year no questions protection plan for $20. If anything happened to it they would replace it free, only once if something happened again your S.O.L.
I was 16 when I bought my first system. I had 2x 12” pioneer tsw-30f subs( blue and pink) and a profile California a600. It was the black and pink one from 1996. It was amazing how loud it was. I had a HUGE box that was about 52”x 20”tall and 16” deep. Good memories. I couldn’t afford Soundstream class A 10.0, broke high school kid making $4.15 an hour. 😂 Now I’ve got a system in every vehicle, tons of Soundstream amps. Class A 10.0, 5.0 and rubicon 10.2, 2x rubicon 1002, reference 700sx and lots of Phoenix gold, alpine 4x mrv-1507, and my favorite Alpine 3558 that was completely dead when I bought it. Now it sounds amazing. All the Elna caps leaked and corroded the traces to the power supply IC cards.
I had an AP600 as my first amp ever as a teenager in 2004. Once I was ready to upgrade I got a AP2000. Loved then both and it brings me back seeing them here.
I used to install back in the day but never had a big setup for myself. Did a profile setup for a friend and liked the performance/price so my setup had a 4x75w profile amp and a AP300M mono drivng Crossfiire components and a pair of 8 inch Ctossfire subs was happy with it after figuring it out the 4 channel didnt like the 2ohms bridged load and having it repaired twice. Just gave it 4 ohms per channel and they were reliable. Entire setup survived pounding for about 10 years and I gave em away when i sold the car about 7 years ago.
I'm running a 2006 profile 1000watt class d monoblock right now, still pounding as hard as the day I bought it! I paid $250 for mine at a high end store. Love it the red light just stopped working this week
Nice Derek... I had a big white powder coated Profile amp pushing 2 kicker 12s. I think it was rated 250x2. Never gave me any troubles. Good watts/ dollar value on these amps.
I have always wanted one of the high power smooth blue finish ones back in the day. They ran with the big 3 and were always the better buy as long as they were installed properly. If you had ground loops, clipping, or improper installation you would perceive these as being cheap. If you had a good installer they were awesome. Im not sure I would say circuit city or best buy really had installers that were putting in the effort for a quality build. LOL
I got a california in 2006, still shows up on my crutchfield purchase history so must have been the first crutchfield purchase I made online LOL. It was an AP1000m, I paid $159.99. Ran in in a 94 toyota pickup with a pioneer premier 12 and a JL10w3. Swapped it all over to a 2000 echo later on, and then dated a girl who lived in a bad neighborhood. Came out one morning and it was all gone. Miss that amp, she was a good one!
I had a 250w Profile amp circa 1989/1990. It predated the California line. I replaced a 120w Pioneerr with it and it was much stronger AND sounded better. I ran my whole system off of it with passive crossovers and it really did sound good. I added a Hifonics Hercules on my subs and moved it to the mids and highs and it kept up nicely. It was probably overrated, but it really was clean. My brother had a Sansui (ppi made) and it was quite comparable.
I had a 1997 Profile California 440sx on two JL 10’s in a band pass box. That amp pushed the crap out of those 10’s. They beat the snot out of my little Nissan 720 King Cab.
Bought one of these california amps to replace a rockford punch amp that was stolen out of my honda crx. It was rated to have twice as much power as my rockford amp, but sounded half as strong lol. I mean it it did tide me over for a bit, but i couldnt wait to replace it when i finally could afford another rockford amp haha.
YES! Those were very underrated in performance & value. One of my buddies had one hooked up to 2 10in. subs in a SUZUKI SAMARI. Holy hell cow, that thing rocked.
I think Rockford made a lot of new design subs that year with the inverted dome (concave...) dustcaps. I bought a pair of new 12 inch subs made for sealed boxes (not Series 1 and not Power). Both dustcaps had a 60 degree section with little to no adhesive. Peeled up. Some QC there. They likely produced more subs than ever at that time - especually near 2000. Got my money back at the same moment. They may have been one with a light spot on the surround too. New employees, new processes.
*could you give me some details on how you have the remote wire, wired up? I assume it's just to a switch thats wired inline, got a link? I have a project coming up and will likely have to run a remote from the battery, or daisy chained from the pos from amp, with the switch inline. What would you suggest?*
I had great luck running the profile California amps at lower ohm loads and the class ab 2 channel intan bridged at 2 ohm wich its only rated for 4 ohm bridged
My first system was a couple of profile Cali amps. A 4 channel for the coaxial speakers and a 2 channel for the subs. Worked pretty good just not enough power, I thought.
I remember seeing a white Profile California 400 (I think it was the 2400 model) at a thrift store for like $10 about 25 years ago, I was fairly young and didn't quite have enough to buy it. 😭 Honestly overall, not bad amplifiers.
I still have my AP1000 mono amp it did good on power and sounded nice, the only issue I had was these amps run very hot , to the point where I had to put on blocks to have better air flow around it or it would over heat .
I had a 2000.1 California on a L7 15” in a ported box and it hammered, I mean when I switched to a west coast custom ORION 1500.1 it blew it out the water it might have been a 2500 it was around 2007/08
I was wrong, mine is the 640 model, Korean board. I was disappointed with the results on this amp.. I expected more. My 4ch got way louder than the skar 150.5 I replaced it with..
Lol I had this exact amp, used it for several years, bought it from Crutchfield. Good cheap power for the time. Awful by today's standards 😂 it ran very hot but never failed.