Lanzar VIBE 430

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Price Paid:  $0.00 from friend gived to me

Year / Model Reviewed:
1999 lanzar vibe vibe430

Strengths:
it has an goood bass bost and the when bridged lets out betuful bass sounding bass

Weaknesses:
the screws on the side for postive gournd and remort are an pain but hey stell an good car amp

Summary:
in my say one of the best amp i have beatuful bass from this baby and can't wait to have in car right now in my room hooked 2 one 10INCH and 2 8INCH and the sound is beautuful

Similar Products Used:
none but my kicker amp i had befor let out good sound 2

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Price Paid:  $170.00 from Wholesale Distributo

Year / Model Reviewed:
1999 Lanzar Vibe 430

Strengths:
Rated power is close to accurate. Very reliable (no shutdown problems). Clean power and quite a bit of it. Can't beat the price!

Weaknesses:
Connections are more difficult than most amps. Crossovers only marginal. Big (but any 100x4 amp will be)

Summary:
Let me start by saying I have been in the car stereo industry for over 10 years, so I have a lot of experience. I bought this amp for my wife to use as a 3 channel amp. The front two channels pushed Infinity Kappa 5.25" components while the back pushed a single Kicker Solobaric 15c (round, 8 ohm). The amp was very reliable and had pretty clean SQ. The 15, being 8 ohm was only getting about 200 watts, but it hit pretty well. The front stage was loud and clean. Not transparant like some great amps, but clean with little noticable distortion. I haven't seen a better amp at this price. I sold it to a friend when we changed my wifes setup and he had it pushing two Cerwin-Vega Vega 15's in a large ported box (in a CRX). It did well with that setup also. Very loud and low, actually made you feel sick.

Similar Products Used:
Rockford Fosgate, Infinity Kappa Digital, Kenwood PS series, JBL, MTX, Profile, Audiobahn, MA Audio, and more...

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $100.00 from from friend

Year / Model Reviewed:
 Lanzar vibe 430

Strengths:
none

Weaknesses:
poor power...

Summary:
I orig. bought this amp for my 2 10" kicker comps. And it sounded like ass, but was better than my last amp. Now I have 2 10" audiobahn's awc10 's and it cant push them hard at all. And I cant run them cross over because the amp will turn off shortly after it turns on. Maybe it has something to do with the resistance on the speakers??? Anyways Im not satisfied with it at all.

Similar Products Used:
orion xtreme400 ---one bad arsed amp! rockwood 540 --- POS rockford fosgate 800watt--- did ok, not worth the money compared to the orion

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Price Paid:  $600.00 from morley hi fi

Year / Model Reviewed:
 vibe 430

Strengths:
its powerful

Weaknesses:
it looks dodgy

Summary:
im very pleased with this amp, its powering my kicker impulse splits and pioneer 6 by 9s at the back with more power to spare i once connected it to my 2 kicker comp vr subs too, they were pounding. one thing i can tell, is that the lanzar vibe 430 is STRONGER then the kicker 300.4, that was a real panzy amp

Similar Products Used:
kicker 300.4 (no ballz)

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $165.00 from ebay

Strengths:
-clean power -200 wattsx4 -easy to use

Weaknesses:
-its a BIG amp 17 inches long and 10.5 wide so finding a spot for such an amp next to another 15 inch log amp is a challenge -i dont like the screw type connections to cheap. no problem with them but i would rather they use the hex nut design like on there 1200D models -the power and ground inlets are also the same cheap screw type would prefer an actual hole to use. but these are mostly preferances and not defects on the performance of the amp.

Summary:
I have no complaints with this amp. i have a lanzar 1200d running my subs and this amp running a set of focal polykevlar 165K2's and some infinity 6x9's. The clarity in the focal set is amazing. Any imperfections in this amp would become apparent in these speakers. The crossovers are easy to use and efficient.

Similar Products Used:
listened to orion and rockford similar amps on the focals in custom sounds and didnt like the way they made the speakers sound. this lanzar amp is much better