What year was this Hifonics amp made?

[d0n]

It's a zeus generation x. It says "revision A" on the board inside.

I bought it used yesterday and don't know much about it. Google searches turn up almost nothing. Even the "amp guts" website doesn't show this amp.

Thanks for any info on this amp.

[jol50]

"Made in the USA by Zed Audio" that tells you most of what you need to know. Does Maxxsonics have the manual on their site? Here it is: http://www.maxxsonics.net/manuals/hifonics/archive.html And its a big 50 page file.

Looks like 2x325rms@4ohm and 1x1kw@1ohm and it weighs 21lbs.

[d0n]

thanks!

Any idea about a ballpark value of the amp?

Which end of the amp is the FRONT? The removeable card says to point it toward the front of the amp.

[jol50]

I don't know exactly, but they are fairly valuable best to wait for one to go on epay or search ended listings. 'Front' have no idea, maybe where controls or writing is check that manual see if they say. Here is a similar 4ch that went for 300 320354201756 Zed made nice amps in case you did not know, much like PPI they made them for assorted amp companies. Most of those amps are from '90s into early '00s, I don't know exact years but matters little the USA amps were pretty good then.

[tomtomjr]

I sold Hifonics VII in 92, VIII in 93-94. So I would say 95-96...

[d0n]

What would be a good pair of used 15" subwoofers to buy and be powered by this amp? I don't do rap... mainly metal and rock.

I was into car stereo back in the mid 80's to early 90's. Then I got old and sold everything. I'm still old but am looking to relive a bit of my youth by putting together a serious system in my subaru impreza.

The last real subs I owned were 15" kicker solarbaics mounted face to face in box about 20" square with a 6" port and powered by a carver M240. I was impressed with it.

My last 3 way system was in my 1973 VW westfalia bus. It was a sony cdx-r88 head unit, a/d/s p80 powering boston acoustics model 641 & 651 mids, a/d/s p80 powering the 4 wedge shaped tweeters from the 651 & 641 component sets. A Harman Kardon ca260 drove a pair of boston acoustics 6x9 subs. A yamaha 3 way electronic crossover farmed out the frequencies to the right amps.

I want to put together a better sounding system than that.


Starting with this hifonics zeus amp and my JVC KD-SX990 head unit ...how 'bout you guys helping me design a high quality (but fairly low budget) 3 way component system? I'll be buying everything used on ebay or locally on craigslist. I'll probably make the sub box myself.

[tsmith1315]

Originally posted by d0n


The last real subs I owned were 15" kicker solarbaics mounted face to face in box about 20" square with a 6" port and powered by a carver M240. I was impressed with it.

My last 3 way system was in my 1973 VW westfalia bus. It was a sony cdx-r88 head unit, a/d/s p80 powering boston acoustics model 641 & 651 mids, a/d/s p80 powering the 4 wedge shaped tweeters from the 651 & 641 component sets. A Harman Kardon ca260 drove a pair of boston acoustics 6x9 subs. A yamaha 3 way electronic crossover farmed out the frequencies to the right amps.

The Carver M240 isn't in the same league with a Zed amp of this size. It would be roughly equivalent to a 2x75W Zed model of similar vintage. IMHO, of course.

Cdx-r88... that would have been 1988 or so? And two P-80's... perhaps a little earlier than that. CA 260? Shoulda been on the 15's instead of the M240! Others may not agree, but that was one helluva bass amp IMHO.

[d0n]

I think the sony cdx-r88 was from 1985 or 86.

I had the first ever sony in dash CD head unit. CDX-R7... it was the model right before the CDX-r88. It had a cool door over the CD slot that flipped up when a CD touched it and flipped back down after the CD was inserted.

That one ended up completely underwater on a 4wd offroad excursion. Whoops! Sony warranteed it and sent me the new and improved cdx-r88.

Man, this pic brings back memories!

[tomtomjr]

There was a CDX-R66 and CDX-R88. Same unit. The 66 was sold by Highland. Everyone else got the 88. Still have several of the 88's. The first Sony was the CDX-R7 and CDX-5 . (and the A-10 changer) The 7 had the tuner, the 5 did not... Have a few of the 5's and 7's. The one that replaced the CDX-R88 was the CDX-77 . Worst CD unit ever made. Drove us nuts trying to fix them. Fix one thing, then something else would go wrong. CDX-R88, the only thing that went out was a transistor in the brain. Happened frequently, but when they worked, they worked great...

[d0n]

cool pics tom we're dating ourselves!