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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Budget Amplifier Mar 30, 2007
By Jeremy Hughes
I bought this amp to run a couple subwoofers in my home theater setup. I have it running two 18" subwoofers at 2 ohms. The amp does its job flawlessly and barely gets warm. Plenty of power on tap for those loud action scenes. The only problem I have with this amp is I have to keep it away from my receiver because it interferes with radio reception. This amp is a great buy.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Awesome Class-D Amp! Jun 16, 2007
By A. Help
"DrMAL"
This amp is a steal for either powering subwoofers (1000 W @ 4 Ohms, 2000 W @ 2 Ohms) with genuine clean power below 120 Hz. Being not fully shielded, it should indeed be kept away from other units...and plugged into its own outlet, preferably with its own GOOD UPS (uninterrupted power supply, the heavier the better).
The Buttkicker SYSTEM (1-2 transducers per amp) is AMAZING. By itself it produces true radiation down to 5 Hz (one would need a 30+" woofer or a complex horn-loaded speaker). I have four of them, two drive Klipsch 15" subs for free-air radiation from 80 Hz (THX) down to 20 Hz and two of them drive a single buttkicker transducer, each from 5-80 Hz, so there's a TON of headroom for calibration at high levels.
BUY THIS SYSTEM, nothing else compares!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Good for ButtKickers Feb 14, 2008
By -TMcN-
What is it? A single-channel (mono) amp specificially for ButtKicker tactile transducers.
What does it do? Powers ButtKicker magnetic pistons that you can bolt under your floor or inside your sofa/recliner to augment your bass and special effects. That works really well and is much cooler than it sounds.
But that's the only thing you should use it for. ButtKickers, other tactile transducers (e.g. Clarks), and perhaps subwoofers. It doesn't do high frequencies. It doesn't do low distortion - which you will never notice at low frequencies. It won't even turn on until it detects very low frequencies. This is the engine of the ButtKicker. You want this, not your receiver, to power a ButtKicker (or Clark, etc) because you need raw power that can be a bit dirty for those. Your receiver pumps out expensive clean power, and not so much of it. So you need both.
For the intended purpose, it's perfect. And, from experience, if it needs fixing, ButtKicker (Guitarhammer) just takes care of it. The absolute best customer service I've seen.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great for a while Apr 24, 2011
By Ryan C. Guenther
This amp was great for about 6 months powering a single transducer when one day while watching an action flick we suddenly smelled a strong chemical burning smell and noticed the transducer was no longer firing...
Long story short, one of the capacitors in the amp had exploded, leaving only a little rubber plug on the circuit board and a crazy coating of fuzzy capacitor guts on every component in the blast radius (about 2-3 inches). On disassembly and inspection of the unit I see at least one other capacitor bulging and one cracked open but not exploded. I plan to replace each of these with the closest replacement I can find and see if the unit works again. I'm not an electrical engineer and I have no idea if the failure of these capacitors could have destroyed other components. (but I'd love to hear opinions from anybody who has a better idea) I may post an update if I get it working again.
I cannot speak as to whether this was a design flaw, a manufacturing defect or a wet little spider crawling across the capacitor contacts, but whatever the case, I have a very nice black metal doorstop and a silent transducer under my couch. I did not try to get Guitammer to repair it, so I can't say how fair and competent they are in that department, but I can say that after explaining the situation to technical support there, they did not offer to repair/replace anything, but did send me their schematic for the circuit boards of the unit.
 Blows fuses, problems internally Dec 03, 2011
By Steven H. Nielsen II
I have had my unit for 3 years and it worked great until now. It has been blowing fuses recently and now it just blew something inside. I opened it up and can see the damage. I would look at other options.
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