Originally Posted by
Gordon Gekko
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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