Is a 15 year old Rocford Fosgate Punch 75 car amplifier worth anything?
I found this old car amplifier in my closet. It hasn't been used in 15 years. I remember it was about $400 new. Is it worth anything at all?
Thanks.
IT really depends on which 75 Watt amp it is. To Sell it properly you will need to find the right buyer for that amp. a 75W Rockford fosgate from 15 years ago is probably on par with their 800W amps of today. Back when real amps were made Fosgate, Orion, PPI Companies like those, they did anything and everything to get their amps as under-rated as possible. Orion HCCA 250 was rated as a 2 channel amp with 50 watts–set up properly they would through down a couple thousand watts. Not only that these companies always rated in RMS (some in 8 0hm even) at half gain at 10.6V-minimum voltage for your car to run properly. Most amps today rate at peak power at full vehicle electrical signal 14.3 instead of RMS. For instance if the amp is rated 2X50@8 channel drawing 10 amps of current at 10.6V that is 106 watts total. Now lets put it in a regular vehicle running at 14.3 you now have 2 channels at 143 watts total. Now we bridge the channels quadrupling the amps output to 572 Watts RMS@4 ohms. Now we start dropping OHMs on the speakers to either 2 or 1, how low you can go depends on whether or not you are capable of pushing enough power into them. Every time you cut the ohms in half power doubles. 2 ohms (for most of them this is as low as you can go bridged) 1144 Watts RMS power@14.3 Volts–This requires some serious power on your vehicles side as it is now pulling 80 amps of steady current-Hence the 00 Gauge amp wire and 250+ watt output alternators with multiple batteries and stiffening capacitors. Peak power is generally 2-3 times what RMS is which means your Peaking at approx. 3000 watts of raw power.–Like I said depending on which 75 watt amp this is it could draw in some serious $$$ to the right person. I would pit a 15 year old Orion HCCA 2100 Against just about any other amplifier on the market today.
15 year old amp that puts out 75w? No. Maybe $50. Maybe. If it still works that is. now if it puts out more than 75w, and still works, I'm sure you could get a good $100 for it. Also depends on number of channels.
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IT really depends on which 75 Watt amp it is. To Sell it properly you will need to find the right buyer for that amp. a 75W Rockford fosgate from 15 years ago is probably on par with their 800W amps of today. Back when real amps were made Fosgate, Orion, PPI Companies like those, they did anything and everything to get their amps as under-rated as possible. Orion HCCA 250 was rated as a 2 channel amp with 50 watts–set up properly they would through down a couple thousand watts. Not only that these companies always rated in RMS (some in 8 0hm even) at half gain at 10.6V-minimum voltage for your car to run properly. Most amps today rate at peak power at full vehicle electrical signal 14.3 instead of RMS. For instance if the amp is rated 2X50@8 channel drawing 10 amps of current at 10.6V that is 106 watts total. Now lets put it in a regular vehicle running at 14.3 you now have 2 channels at 143 watts total. Now we bridge the channels quadrupling the amps output to 572 Watts RMS@4 ohms. Now we start dropping OHMs on the speakers to either 2 or 1, how low you can go depends on whether or not you are capable of pushing enough power into them. Every time you cut the ohms in half power doubles. 2 ohms (for most of them this is as low as you can go bridged) 1144 Watts RMS power@14.3 Volts–This requires some serious power on your vehicles side as it is now pulling 80 amps of steady current-Hence the 00 Gauge amp wire and 250+ watt output alternators with multiple batteries and stiffening capacitors. Peak power is generally 2-3 times what RMS is which means your Peaking at approx. 3000 watts of raw power.–Like I said depending on which 75 watt amp this is it could draw in some serious $$$ to the right person. I would pit a 15 year old Orion HCCA 2100 Against just about any other amplifier on the market today.
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There are collectors out there for the old US made high end amplifiers ( ie, US amps, Orion, Rockford Fosgate,Lanzar OPTI etc.)
you just have to find buyers
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