Rockford Fosgate Power bd1000a1

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Price Paid:  $300.00 from ebay

Year / Model Reviewed:
2004 bd100.1

Strengths:
looks good with illuminated logo kicks out loads of power never gets hot or cuts out like my last two amps

Weaknesses:
the end cap with the allen wrench i leave it in the box but cant knock performance or reliability

Summary:
i burnt out a cheap 700w sub in under an hour i now have a type x which also smelt of burning whilst running in but now gain at full power no distortion had to uprate alternator and replace box after the back blew out the review about the kickers made me laugh this amp rocks literaly my windscreen wipers jump off the screen!

Similar Products Used:
alpine/pioneer/legacy/inphase

Price Paid:  $0.00

Strengths:
powerfull until it kills your speakers

Weaknesses:
it sucks at producing moderately clean power to push subs

Summary:
Basically, this bd1000 is bull. I had 2 hooked up on two kicker solobarics each wired for 2 ohms and this piece of junk burned up the voice coils at low volumes 3 times. I honestly think that no one should purchase this amplifier. Rockford has new engineers and their doing a terrible job at designing. The amplifier pushes out too much raw power causing speakers to distort. In other words, there is too much dc power. Their garbage don't buy it , thats why its so cheap

Similar Products Used:
none

Price Paid:  $425.00 from friend

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2000

Strengths:
it never gets warm and it does not kick my batterys ass and the remote gain is really nice too and the amp can easily painted

Weaknesses:
when i first got it the nut on the gain got lose and i had to tighten it has not happend since

Summary:
the amp is sweet i hit 138.1 with all junk now that i have this amp and a new set of subs (Ground Zeros )(they are kick ass too)i bet i can pull a 152.5 if i change my battery and get 2 or 3 caps

Similar Products Used:
rockford fosgate punch 400.4 for highs(infinity kappas all the way around) soundstream ref.700 sx for a set of 15"GS Redlines pioneer ph4100 cd deck the system is award winning for sound quality

Price Paid:  $200.00 from Soundsaround

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2001 - RockfordFosgate 1000.1

Strengths:
RAW Power. Hardly draws power for what it outputs, extremely small for versitile positioning, nice and cool, I don''t think it will ever get hot enough to shut down.

Weaknesses:
... If I said anything here, I would be lieing.

Summary:
Holy crap! This thing ownz. I can''t see how it hasn''t gotten a 5/5 from everyone. Right now I am just running it off of my friends little kenwood 10" that has been abused and beaten, but it takes to the limit and back again. I scored the amp for a great price too... $345 CANADIAN. Can''t beat that. As far as heat goes... I haven''t been able to run it at full power because it would crush the little kenwood. But I haven''t even seen the amp get warm yet. I have pounded it for hours straight... but no temp. increase at all, and it hardly draws juice from my battery. Blows my mind. All I can say is that since it is discontinued now, you can get unreal prices on it and you can''t go wrong!

Similar Products Used:
Planet Audio 200Watt.

Price Paid:  $455.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2001 Rockford Fosgate Power BD 1000.1

Strengths:
it''s just hit whenever and it will never get really hot for frying the egg

Weaknesses:
it require the 100 amp fuse, i only put 30 amp fuse, and i blow it.

Summary:
It''s any awesome amp, and it was loud for my subwoofer, and now all my friend want it too, but i just need a deck for my amp and woofer, if any of you sell the good deck for cheap, please e-mail me at basketball_34_2002@hotmail.com thanks

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