AQ is a wicked bang for the buck. everyone knows the connection between them and DD. but the AQ is quite up to par with DD. i don't have experience with the mach 5, but you surely won't go wrong with the other 3.

my vote would be for the DD or AQ. if you get one of those, hit me up and i'll give you a few pointers for a box that they like. i've got one guy who broke his old CA state record for the USAC 601 - 1800 stock class using only 2 DD 9512's! and his still get's it on with any type of music.

 

The only reason i am leaning tword the mach 5 is because of the price. It is $370 brand new. The AQ i am not sure about bc it is rated at 1000w rms. I know it can do more but 2-3kw more?? I think the DD and the SSX are gonna be out of my price range after i buy this amp, unless i can find one used.....but i dont know that i really want to go used....

 

go to the DD sound pressure forum and look up jeremiah ledgerwood. he's got street beat record in his class pounding the crap out of 4 AQ 12's! high 150's, 158 or so.

 

I don't want to sound stupid, I am usually up to par on stereo eq, but how long has treo been out?? I don't think I have heard of them. from the latests reads I have found, they seem to bee up there with the top makers.... BTW 141 is pounding for one sub

Thanks John

 

Well they have been around as long as i have been into car audio (bout 5 years, since i could drive) but i dont know exactly how long. I was very impressed with the 141 the ssi did and that is why i was looking into an ssx bc i was curious what those would do given the proper power.....all that i have heard from treo has been good stuff, i hear their amps are suppose to be really good too but are rather expensive and hard to come by nowdays....

 

they've been around since 99 - 00 or so. you'll notice the similarities between them and mmats. one of treo's uppers, john henry jr, competed for mmats using the DD built juggernaut sub. but he got caught cheating in the lanes. after that, treo evolved. metro sounds in omaha is his shop. treo used to be made in USA, but from what i've heard they may have gone overseas in the past few years (can't verify if that is true or not, as we don't play with treo anymore). from when we used to use them, equal product line to product line, they'd out pound the other mainstreamer lines (jl, kicker, fosgate).

 

im almost positive they are made here, but i could be wrong.. what impresses me is the CXT out of their line, handling 20k watts..

 

imo the cxt was a let down. it spent 4 or 5 years as a prototype. every year it was going to be released and it was going to be the baddest sub on the planet. they never could accomplish that, hence why they finally just put it on the market as it was.

i'm not saying it can transform impressive acoustic energy, it just never could live up the hype of their marketing campaign.

 

after seeing JL's 13TW5 yesterday in person, that was a pretty impressive looking sub, and it seems to be standing up to its hype