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Originally Posted by X5-limo
Yo! Fraktulz, Have you got your system up and running, yet?
I just replaced my (blown?) Alpine 350 watt amp with an Alpine 500 watt and man-oh-man, there is a difference! I can say, IMHO, that the Alpine 350 watt amp has just enough power for the Pioneer 251w shallow-sub (it's a good combination!) to make it a perfect match ie., a X5 w/ 4.8is. An Alpine 450 watt amp would be like adding a CAI to that same X5 w/ 4.8is, but the Alpine 500 watt is like that X5 w/4.8is and CAI plus a Magnaflow X-pipe and a set of
Dinan Free Flow Exhausts!!  
Either one of the three amps should make a good system! |
Isn't it always true that more powerful is better! Now I have amp envy in addition to wheel envy.
Years ago I got the original Bose 901 speaker system along with a quality 60 amp. This, Bose and all the review articles said, was way more than enough. Years later I borrowed a very expensive monster amp for a day. Wow, what a huge difference! Those 18 speakers in a little sealed box (the original design) just needed a huge amount of power, way more than most people could possibly afford. Later, Bose added ports to lower the real power requirement. Maybe the shallow sub in a small box is like that: it will work, mine sounds good, but more power makes it better.
It would be interesting if others out there have done what you did and what their observations are, in case maybe your 350 amp was defective or something.