Hiya jabberwalk. Let me just throw this piece of info out there for your consumption, and this comes from years of experience (and money wasted), and I bet it's something many veterans on here will agree with.
Don't do the "I'll get something small first then upgrade later" thing. if you're looking for an amplifier, these days a 1x4 (like the one in the picture) is pretty much entry-level. You will see between 700-900w Peak out of one of them and the nice part is that a 1x4 will work with just about any vehicle. At most you'd want a 2nd battery in the vehicle but nothing more. No need for a giant alternator and 1/0 wire!
If you go the KL203 route you will get 100-120w Max on AM (according to cbradiomagazine.com 's review).
Furthermore you will have just spent $65 + $10 for shipping. What you will find is that after a week (maybe less) the power bug bite will start to itch and then you're going to start looking for a bigger amp. This is all normal by the way.
Then you're gonna start saying to yourself, 'Man I should have gotten that KL-300.' So you try selling the 203 and find that nobody wants it. So you purchase the KL-300 (if you can find one) and dump about $150 including shipping into it. So now you're $150 for the 300 + $75 for the 203 equaling $225. Shortly after you run the KL-300 and find that now you're getting 150w max output on AM, you realize that you're still a big mudduck and you need to go bigger.
The next logical progression is to get a 1x4 amp. New these things run around $400 including shipping. You ponder the difference between Davemade, Fatboy, and X-Force and you post about it at great length. Finally you decide on either a Dave or fatboy. You figure you can sell your KL boxes but you quickly find that nobody wants them and the best offer you receive is $50 shipped for both of them.
After doing the math you realize that going the CHEAP way costs you much more. You have $225 + $400 = $625 into amplifiers instead of buying my DaveMade 1x4 for $300 from the beginning!
HaHaHa! Sure I'm trying to sell my box, I won't lie...however every single thing I said about starting TOO small and upgrading along the way is 1000% accurate. I wrote all this because I have DONE all this! As has most people on here when they started out!
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