My friend ordered a couple 13Ov.2 D4 's from eD recently, and he told me he'll pop one in my system to upgrade it from my current kicker Comp12 (it says 4 ohm on the box, whatever that means). I have been looking for an amp for a set of components that i'm looking at buying.
I did not install the Comp12...it was done for me. I assume I can keep the wiring and just replace the sub/amps? I ended up not liking the amplifier at all.
I saw the NiNe.5 on clearance and it looks like a nice buy, but i want to verify some things before i purchase it...
I'd rather have one amp in my car than two smaller amps, but its not that big of a deal
The NiNe.5 would be underpowering one 13Ov.2D4 right? I'm basically new at car audio, but i searched around and what i seemed to have understood is that a dual4 hooks up to 2ohm from the amp. The 13Ov.2 is rated at 600RMS, and the NiNe.5 only outputs 450. Is this a good idea? or do i have better options out there than the NiNe.5?
And any recommendations on components?

 

wow there are many many 1200ish rms amps @ 1ohm.

You can do the nine.1. I have one and was very surprised.

Others include Crossfire BMF,JBL 1200,Directed 1100d. There are many and will range in price from about 200-350 used.

Its really up to how much money you have and how much room you wanna give up

give us a budget

 

not on such a tight budget...but would like to keep everything under 500(amp[s], component) if possible. I am willing to pay more for quality though

 

Alpine PDX 1.600.

It's what I run. Very efficient, cool running, compact. I love it.

 

okay so i decided to opt out on the NiNe.5 and get two different amps. I think 450RMS on the NiNe.5 would have less room to work with.
Because i would have a Dual4 in my car, and i'm probably only going to have one sub, my friend says go with a mono amp...

both the pdx 1.600 and the nine.1 look good...im only looking at using 600W.

For the car wiring...i can just keep the old wires right? or do i need to get new ones because the new amp will be drawing much more power

 

by old wire do you mean speaker wire or power wire?

you will need to run new speaker wire

and of course power wire

 

NINe.5 is a great amp but not sure it is the right amp for that sub........maybe NINe.1 for sub and another amp for the fronts woudl be better.......although I hooked up a 600w sub to my NINe.5 and retuned it for full power and it hit really hard and pushed the sub just fine.........NINe.5 needs 0/1 power ground wire as well........and it is really big and hard to place well in the car........

 

i have a used nine.1 for relatively cheap