Usamps Tour afterthoughts and Videos

[flakko 1]

Well, it was just me and Mr. Casey Walsh I thought it was a fun little time. Walked through the factory, there wasnt much production actually, just one guy in the back soldering, and dirk in his lab workin it because the CES stuff was set up in the work room.

Ill have pix later on tonight but ill post what i thought was the most informative part of the tour, the interview with JR. This is just the section of the Q&A in which people from the forums asked questions. We talked for a good hour afterwards about different things usamps has been designing, most notably their venture into home audio But that is for another time.

the vids might take some time to load, kinda big because i wanted the audio to be good.

wow i was just told to temporarily take the vid off. hopefully they will be up again. i still have the hard copies

[Chevy350TPI 12]

Awesome!

Those videos are great.

[fbi90909 0]

JR reminds me of Chino from the Deftones.

nice information given from the interview.

[iagrdshaka 0]

Part 4 (the Xterminator line and their overratedness)

http://www.teamssaudio.com/video/play.php?vid=181

Did anyone else watch that video?

[flakko 1]

Part 4 (the Xterminator line and their overratedness)

http://www.teamssaudio.com/video/play.php?vid=181

Did anyone else watch that video?

theres a discussion about that at ca.com right now. this is one of my repsonses:

I too am kinda disappointed in the direction they took with the xterminator line. however, if they want to go mainstream, where to be honest most of the money is, they have to do what they do.

also like JR said, they are just going with the market trend for the low end. but in a business sense, it makes sense. usamps is still a fairly underground brand name, and when trying to sell for example Xt2000D with its true CEA ratings vs a kenwood 2000w MAX amp, its tough because the average customer doesnt know who the heck usamps is, and would prefer to go with the kenwood because the kenwood does 2000w and the 2000d does like 800. that's my take on it from an objective POV.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274994 (if you dont mind me posting)

its a good business move IMO.

[bose301s 1]

Part 4 (the Xterminator line and their overratedness)

http://www.teamssaudio.com/video/play.php?vid=181

Did anyone else watch that video?

theres a discussion about that at ca.com right now. this is one of my repsonses:

I too am kinda disappointed in the direction they took with the xterminator line. however, if they want to go mainstream, where to be honest most of the money is, they have to do what they do.

also like JR said, they are just going with the market trend for the low end. but in a business sense, it makes sense. usamps is still a fairly underground brand name, and when trying to sell for example Xt2000D with its true CEA ratings vs a kenwood 2000w MAX amp, its tough because the average customer doesnt know who the heck usamps is, and would prefer to go with the kenwood because the kenwood does 2000w and the 2000d does like 800. that's my take on it from an objective POV.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274994 (if you dont mind me posting)

its a good business move IMO.

And it's douche baggery IMO, rating an 800 watt amp at more than double what it puts out is flat out lying. Maybe they should take advice from a respectable company, Sundown has entry level amps as well, the SAE series, yet they are still under rated, the SAE-1000D by more than 100 watts. Its the sign of a company who has no ethics, similar to ED.

[flakko 1]

Part 4 (the Xterminator line and their overratedness)

http://www.teamssaudio.com/video/play.php?vid=181

Did anyone else watch that video?

theres a discussion about that at ca.com right now. this is one of my repsonses:

I too am kinda disappointed in the direction they took with the xterminator line. however, if they want to go mainstream, where to be honest most of the money is, they have to do what they do.

also like JR said, they are just going with the market trend for the low end. but in a business sense, it makes sense. usamps is still a fairly underground brand name, and when trying to sell for example Xt2000D with its true CEA ratings vs a kenwood 2000w MAX amp, its tough because the average customer doesnt know who the heck usamps is, and would prefer to go with the kenwood because the kenwood does 2000w and the 2000d does like 800. that's my take on it from an objective POV.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274994 (if you dont mind me posting)

its a good business move IMO.

And it's douche baggery IMO, rating an 800 watt amp at more than double what it puts out is flat out lying. Maybe they should take advice from a respectable company, Sundown has entry level amps as well, the SAE series, yet they are still under rated, the SAE-1000D by more than 100 watts. Its the sign of a company who has no ethics, similar to ED.

its like comparing apples to oranges. You have to look at this from a business point of view, jacob let me know if i'm wrong here. I assume you get most of your stuff from the internet, learn all your knowledge from forums etc. etc....Its a completely different market than the mainstream. Sundown provides amps to cater to you, the enthusast. It is also priced for the internet to give the enthusast be the best bang for the buck while the owner still gets the green. The Sundown amps AFAIK, goes from factory to jacob to Dealers to customer. The Xterminator line on the other hand goes from factory to usamps to distributor to dealer THEN to customer, so there are more middle men, and more cash gets lost in the middle, however he upside is more product movement therefore more exposure into the market.

usamps, has equipment to cater to the enthusiast as well, BUT they need to fill that market in which they can make the REAL money...the low end. the average consumer people dont want high end anymore...they want cheap quick bass. This is why RE failed in bringing their stuff to the B&M dealer networks. Their most of their following was on the net that makes up less than 10% of the market.

[ANeonRider 3]

He speaking the truth.

Only audio where high end cashes in, is in Home Audio. Car Audio does not. The average consumer in the car audio world buys hype, nothing more.

[Supa_c 1]

FYI

Kenwood gives a MAX and a RMS rating on all of their amps. They also list the voltage and frequency for the given wattage.

Not really a good comparison but whatever...

[DevilDriver 28]

Videos taken down?