2005 Profile California AP1040 Amp Dyno Test 

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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.

Always hated installing these at circuit city knowing the MTX stuff was there...though not everyone had mtx money

I still have my profile California 800 from high school 2001. It worked great . It also handled 2ohm bridged well. 😎

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.

I have an 800 watt and smaller matching 250 or 300 Watt amplifiers. Sticker says made in Korea, and they sound great! Thanks for the show and info

I never had a California Profile amp but back in 94 I had a 3 way crossover that actually worked pretty well. I love the videos Big D👍🏼👍🏼

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.

Had one of the early Profile amps, I was never totally happy with it. This makes it more apparent why.

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

Big D killin it once again! Keep up the good work!

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.

Sweet looking amps. Purchased one from Crutchfield decades ago. Got stolen the next day.

Profile california monoblock was my first amp that blew my very first mtx sub, back before I knew a damn thing about car audio.

Oh Wow!!! I had the ap1200. I sold it in 2007 & I’ve been wanting it back.

I never hated these- installed a bunch, knew they weren't the best, but far from the worst. Pretty reliable on top of it.

Nice! Back in 2004 I was bumping brands like Koiiler, DHD, Nitro. Cheap flea market stuff.

That 1200SX is sexy looking. BigD thanks for testing and showing off these old school amps.

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.

Ran these for a couple of years. They were OK. Didn't know if they did actual power but we enjoyed them

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 had the 1000w in 1999. It may my 2 original JL 12w3 bang hard. Bassss!

My sisters boyfriend was a profile dealer. I remember he sold my buddy one of these. Worked really well. It was wired to two profile 12” inch SPL subs

I had this exact amp in my 2007 Nissan Titan pushing some 6x9’s and 6 3/4” door speakers. Sounded good enough for me. Bought it from Crutchfield

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!

California had some really nice subs back in the day.

I remember them.. i even had one at one time.

Had 2 of the 600s in 96 they were very clean

I still have two California amps still using one of them

I had a 600 watt 2 ch 2ohm bridged on jbl gto series 1000 watt 10 in a 96 civic. It was a beast for what it was. Hit hard as hell

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.

Oh man I one of these back in 2004 pushing a 10" Audiobahn

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.

I had this amp back in hike skool. Blew up a 15" mtx pretty easy

You are just TEASING me posting this ahead of that Blaupunkt amp! Why you gotta tease me, Big D?

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.

I had one of the blue 2 channel amp. Got it from Crutchfield in like 1999.

Remember the Profile Baja line? Those were even cheaper!

My Favorite is the first Generation big white 1200 watt one

I had the Ap2000 running 3 12s and that thing never gave up only in 90°+ weather back when I was in high school.

I would love to see you test one of the Mmats LS series amplifiers.

I just not two minutes ago saw one of these on Marketplace!

Profile had a couple stand outs

Beautiful amp 👍🏻

I had a profile spl 100w ×2 amp in 97 that pushed 2 fosgate competition 10s so hard it blew the front surround to pieces

Great for the money back then.

I have been waiting for this. I have one that needs rebuilt and I wanna know if it's worth it! I'm gitty already.

Beautiful Classic Design. Thanks Big D

I had the 1200

*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?*

Thanks.

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.

Sold many yes a little less power hey Big D have you tested the Profile SPL series?

just tossed a 600sx out, used it to run a single 12" sub it was not bad for what it was.. lasted me years..

Where do you get the old Crutchfield catalogs? I wish I had saved them all.

I remember that Crutchfield issue lol

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 .

J.c. Whitney distributed

I still got the 1000 watt mono block amp

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

Awwwww yusssssss!!!!!!

Nice , wish ot was stronger

Roughly how many amplifiers do you have in your inventory?

have the exact same amp in South Africa, under the name AUDIOBANK.

Please test a 80's Audio mobile sa1600 . It was a 2 ohm light dimmer

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.

The mono profile amp can run lower ohms

Wow My First Flea Market System A Profile 1040 and a 700 m on Alpine Type R 2 Two ways and Bazooka 10 tubes 😅

Chung Lam FTW.

I have a vintage gm pioneer 80’s era amp I’d like to donate to you. It needs repair. I would like you to test it’s output to.

Yo tengo el california AP1000M 🔊

Better than boss or new lanzar

Profile was probably a half step below Sherwood and Coustic as entry level gear back in the day. Still better than Pyramid!

Pyramid or Boss inside

I rember the TARGA amps trying to compete with fosgate, just because they copied the heatsink.

The CL series was korean made

Hey D! U.S. Amps are producing New York Products.... You might wanna check it out!!!!!

Oh mine was California brand I think…..

Just looking at the Amp and you already know it will not make rating power ;)

It kicked out some power at 2 ohms..

sony xm2002gtr

Dayum those output transistors...are they legit knowing the amp is made in China? If only they didn't overrate the amps, its all nice and good!

they aren't over rated, they're just under fused......

These profile amps have a stick says made in korea.

If you happen to have any L.A. sound car audio around to show I would like to see that very much.