Dayton Audio SA1000 Subwoofer Amplifier Rack Mountable

Sound is so subjective. If we all heard the same then there would only be a handful of speakers for sale. I am somewhere between and every day person and an audiophile, probably more like and audio enthusiast. I enjoy crystal clarity of sound and imaging. I am a 2 speaker stereo person, surround sound is fine, but I would rather have 2 great speakers instead of 6 or 8 ‘average’ surround sound speakers. I had a plate amp on the back of a subwoofer I built. It was an NHT1259 in a sealed box. I was powered by a 250 watt plate amp built in to the sub enclosure. I had it for years and liked it. After a night of running this plate amp at very high volume it got too hot and burned some components. One of the things I never liked about the plate amp was that the controls were on the back of the sub. It was a pain to adjust while listening and had to go by memory of which knob did what function. I got this SA1000 amp to replace it and am very happy. The amp is a very heavy unit, as it has a nice heavy transformer (always a big plus). I enjoy the front mounted controls as I can see what knob I am adjusting (as opposed to a plate amp on the back of a subwoofer). I ran the amp all night and it did not get hot to the touch. It did get slightly warm. I has more punch than my older 250 watt plate amp and it is more clean sounding. My only complaints: The soft clip circuitry is useless as when it clips it is just as bad as any clipping amp and the blue power button, it is too bright. The amp does not have any audible hum when in use.

Very positive click on the on button, and works very well. Using this with my 7 foot high transition line dual 8 inch sub. I am only using one channel. Works great, enough power for what I use it for, and I still have one channel spare. Took a while to set up, but with the aid of a frequency meter on my phone got it dialed in pretty fast, absolutely wonderful now.

It drives my buttkicker advance bolted to a Markus just fine didn't notice any issues with it, but it is admittedly overkill for that purpose unless driving multiple of them. I don't think my rump could handle that much bass. Fiddled with the EQ filter and it worked well enough for my needs, mostly to muffle out the higher frequencies when using open headphones. My only pet peeve is that this model is mono I should've gotten a stereo version in case I wanted to try my hand at a flightsimrig but I doubt I'll feel where the vibration is coming from. It is good enough as it is. Oh, and the thing weighs a ton. Had to lug it for 3Km walking distance because I didn't pay attention to the package info free workout 😅. I need a car man, and some common sense along with it.

Absolutely amazing. Use to power two buttKicker LFE for DCS World . Forget about the butkicker amp. Garbage compared to this monster. Heavy as heck but . Heavy = quality. Outstanding must have if your powering high end tactile subs

all the features to make a great sub amp for sure... when the gain is up past 5/8ths a hummmmmmm comes into play that is very frusterating so i would recommend setting just below that level and relying on your head unit for main gain controls... it is tossing around a 15" Kicker CVX without much problem at all :)