SAX-50.4

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Please say the upcoming (and highly anticipated for me anyway) SAX-50.4 model will have the same awesome crossover capabilities as the new SAX-100.4 Rev D?

[~DIGITAL~BASS~ 0]

That would be a nice amp for my cooler boombox haha.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I thought he said they might not make the first run.

[sundownz 197]

No - the 50.4 will not get all those crossovers, way too expensive. They added over 10% to my build cost on the 100.4 - I am keeping the cost the same for the customer for as long as I can on the 100.4D, though.

It will have the SAX-100.4C crossovers.

... and the 50.4 will debut along with the new 100.4D

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I would pay extra for those features on a smaller footprint smaller power amp, not sure about everyone else here. My install space is limited and I am sure alot of people's are.

Let me ask you this. Would it be possible to take the panel and the daughterboard from the 100.4D and put it on a 50.4? Then put the panel from the 50.4 on the 100.4 and sell it as a revision C amp rather than D? I would probably be willing to do that after the 50.4's arrive. Surely someone would still want a 100.4C even after the arrival of the 100.4D. Or can you just order some extra panels and daughterboards with the shipment for people who want those features on the 50.4 you can sell them the parts to do it. Or I could pay for ALL of the extra panels and boards with the order and then I will sell them. That way your not investing a lot of money in it, I am. And yet you will still get the benefit of seeing how well or not well it sells and if I am sold out in a very short period of time then you will know that on the next run, you should add the panel to the 50.4 and just add it to the final cost of the amp, because you will now know that people will pay the extra $$ for those features on that amp.

Sorry for pestering you about it, it's just that I think IMHO, the SAX-100.4 is a BEAST for highs. Nothing wrong with that, just not for everyones install, it's as big as a SAZ-1500D on the outside. We used to run those little Kenwood KAC-721 (I think that was it, was the really small ones) amps back in the day, either 1 or 2 of them per install for highs/mids and it was more than adequate power and sounded great.

[sundownz 197]

Chris,

The 100.4D crossovers are ~1.5" longer than the 100.4C crossovers - so swapping in D revision for C revision is not possible.

Length is another reason I don't want to use the D crossovers on the 50.4 as many customers that wanted it have very small space available too.

On the 50.4 we would be talking an MSRP of $319 w/ the C revision and $399 w/ the D revision (it represents almost a 25% increase in build cost for the 50.4 model).

It's a pretty huge difference... I will likely have to increase the 100.4D cost after the first run, as I can only absorb the 10% increase in build cost for so long. I am doing so to get more of the D revision units out there so people can see it is worth it.

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So the new D input board is still two boards, like in the C model amps? But 1.5" longer to accomodate the extra components on the boards? That does make it signifigantly harder to do the swap, if not impossible without making the 50.4 amp physically larger and that would defeat it's purpose....

Will send you some emails regarding it next week.

[sundownz 197]

So the new D input board is still two boards, like in the C model amps? But 1.5" longer to accomodate the extra components on the boards? That does make it signifigantly harder to do the swap, if not impossible without making the 50.4 amp physically larger and that would defeat it's purpose....

Will send you some emails regarding it next week.

Correct - and yes, it will likely be impossible to swap.

And yes, the 50.4 would become too large to be practical - as well as too expensive for many of the people that wanted it.