A true work of art for sale

[GlassWolf]

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The Precision Power A1200.2
Class A/B
300 watts RMS @ 12VDC x 2 channels @ 4 ohms
600 watts RMS @ 12VDC x 2 channels @ 2 ohms
1200 watts RMS x 1 channel bridged @ 4 ohms
one of the most beautiful amplifiers ever made, in my view. The paint scheme and design is simply elegant and those amplifiers could deliver like no other. If I had a spare $650 handy I'd buy that thing right now.
I remember drooling over that amplifier on our showroom display board, and on a couple of select install jobs.. haha Man those things were clean.

[Fishy]

My pro mos 2050 was PPI's first "white" amp and that cool color scheme was one of the reasons I bought the thing, but now there's so mush garish looking stuff out there that I think I like the black better.

I always wanted to get hold of a pro art and try watercooling and maybe experiment with some low impedance loads. You ever do one of those installs kiki?

-Fishy

[GlassWolf]

used several 2050AM amplifiers. nice amps.
we did a few where we had casings for Audiocontrol stuff matched to the PPI art series schemes, and did a few others where we powdercoated the amplifier cases and re-silkscreened the lettering onto them to match other things like Orion's red HCCA amps etc. It's neat at first.
I always loved some of PPI's art series signal processing like that DCX-1000 digital crossover module but that stuff was just insanely expensive, like Orion's concept 97.2 that sold for something like $2400 for a 30=30 band 1/3 octave digital EQ.

[GlassWolf]

here's one from about 1991, with an a1200.2, three 600.2s, a DCX-1000, and I think a 2050AM. I forget the models after this long. I could dig em up from some old PPI literature I have floating around here in old dealer books though.

[Fishy]

Yeah the 2050am was the model that followed the regular ol 2050m that did your basic 50x2@4ohm and 100x2@2ohm. The pro MOS 2050 was PPI's first cheater amp(Mos 50 predecessor, 200x2@1ohm). The guy who started JL Audio(forget his name, Italian I think) also owned a few of the the local audio shops I used to frequent here in S. Florida. Manville Smith worked at one of them and was telling me about how the owner had totally kickedorz in the 1-100 watt class with a single pro mos 2050 and a huge passive xover network(the coil had to weigh nearly 20 lbs. hehe). Well I had visions of competing in the 101-250 watt class so I traded in my 4200m + cash for a 2050 and got me a Soundstream Class A 100II for highs. Needless to say the competition thing never happened, but it sure did push my 10w5's and ran cool as a cucumber while doing it. I finally had to retire the thing about a year ago as it just gradually began to run hotter and hotter. I fried it once after hooking up a home-made phantom power supply din to a questionable din-only PPI xover. I got it repaired but its been running hot ever since. I dunno, PPI did the repairs, but maybe they substituted some different parts.

Well anyways, I found a couple pdf's which list some of PPI's older stuff:

http://www.precisionpower.com/ppipdfs/g ... ineage.pdf

http://www.precisionpower.com/ppipdfs/g ... etail1.pdf

$880 was a lot to pay for a 400 watt amp. Of course power was pretty expensive circa 1989.



-Fishy

[Fishy]

Hmmm..... after looking at that pic again I don't believe those are Art Series amps. Looks more like 3 Mos 50's(or pro mos 2050's), a Mos 425(or 2200M-D), and that monster is either a 2300M-D or a 2350DM/M-D(List $2035! eek!). That was one pricey install, wow.

I almost bought a Mos 425 in my quest for a competition vehicle, but couldn't figure out where the hell to put it in my Cherokee. Everything I had fit real nice under my rear seat and I loved my cargo space(minus the 10w5's).

Ahhh.... those were the days although stuff sure is a lot more affordable now. Kids today don't know how good they got it when they can pick up a BP1200.1 off Ebay for 150 bucks.

:)

-Fishy

[Fishy]

I remember Manville had an old Toyota hatchback or something with a 4200m running highs and a 2200m running EIGHT 8w2's(or 8w1's?) @ 400 watts in an isobaric enclosure. He did pretty good in competitions with it, although some of the guys said the thing weighed a ton(or 2) with all the servos and stuff he had in there.

He let me listen to it before I purchased the 10w5's and although the highs were unbearably loud(2 pair of JBL 4" or 3 1/2's and tweets) the bass was so clean that you didn't really "hear" it as much felt it blow your hair around.



That was the first real system I ever listened to and although I've heard louder stuff(8 Punch 15's with a pickup bed/topper as a box) I'd have to say I haven't heard lows that clean since.

We all need to get together some place a lil farther south so I can see what my system is supposed to sound like.

:)

-Fishy

[GlassWolf]

come to think of it that was a 2350.. yeah. remember that van was done in mid 1991, so it was before a lot of the second gen stuff came out.
Orion hadn't changed their emblem from the planet/star to the stylized planet alone yet, and they hadn't revamped the amplifier cases to have the rounded look.. they were still first gen SX/GX/HCCA stuff all pre-XTR. That was ages ago.
yeah the install wasn't cheap but the van belonged to PPI anyway. They didn't care.
Back then, my 2250SX amps retailed for $1,599 each, and the Orion GS500 (24K gold plated, hand tuned version of the 2250SX) retailed for $2,999.
I shudder to even think about what some of that PPI Art gear cost back then, like their PAR-425 in-dash EQ and such, and the digital crossover modules.
They had some of the best stuff you could buy at the time though. same founders for PPI as Orion and RF. Not surprising all three were considered some of the best.

[GlassWolf]

I'll rummage around and find the original 35mm photos I took of that van setup.
I'll re-scan em at 300dpi and take a closer look at the model numbers on the cases.
They should show up at that resolution.

[Fishy]

LOL, ok.

Now I want to ditch my Xtant stuff and go PPI bargain hunting on ebay. Nah, I love the way the old Xtant stuff looks and I think Xtant was started by a couple of the PPI guys anyways. I just need to find a 1001d cover for my 1001dx so it matches the brushed stainless on my 4180c. I swear the older that thing gets the more "industrial" it looks w/ the added oxidation. I wonder if I could have some place remove the dx's chrome and buff it out nice. The inside of the cover looks real similar to the 4180c.

I really need to get a digital camera sometime soon.

-Fishy

[note] I think that center amp was a MOS 425. If I remember correctly Manville's 2200m was a lot "thicker" than PPI's normal stuff.