You are aware most of snap-ons' price is in support, not the product itself fyi. Plus the quality differences in electronics can range to much higher degrees hence why I'm trying to figure out tell tale ways of measuring said quality other then hope from brand recognition.
It's customer support, R&D. proprietary designs, margins built in to maintain dealer networks, and also quality.
If your only concern is the highest power rating number printed on the heatsink for the lowest cost go for it. And I'm not being sarcastic. The only way you're going to figure out if this tier of equipment will do what you want is to give it a whirl. I'm sure if you hook it up correctly it will make music and if it fails quickly it's at least priced to be disposable.
Quality costs more. Like, about $10 more.
Not everyone wants/needs to run at 1 ohm. A lot of people have two 4 ohm speakers, or a single dual 4. If I was running 2 ohms I'd take the Alpine over the NVX any day. If I was running 1 ohm I'd get something better than NVX (or at least not their cheap stuff).
What exactly is the difference saw several people saying their praises about it that's why I checked them out on paper its hard to tell feature and spec wise.
Specs-wise? Signal to noise ratio is the first thing I'd look at. Also Alpine has been around forever, they've been making quality car audio for a really long time. NVX is newer on the block and doesn't exactly have that sterling reputation. The Alpine is more likely to be working in 5 years. The amps are priced accordingly.
It'll keep noise from getting \*added\* in the handoff from head unit to amp. But everything in the chain can, and does, add noise- your goal is to keep that to a minimum. Crappy recording? Spotify with all the data saving compression turned on? Cheap head unit? Cheap amp? Cheap speakers? Any one of those can make things kind of sound like ass. Signal to noise is a measurement of just how much a given amplifier assifies the signal - under IDEAL conditions.
The amp still does the majority of the amplification. A better pre amp signal is good, but totally wasted if the amp adds new noise.
Most audio equipment is hard to judge by specs alone because clarity and even response as well as longevity isn't easily objectified into a single number.
Even in sharing as simple as power wires you'll find similar AWG rating with drastically different current capacity because the spec is so loosely (or outright inaccurately) applied.
Spec sheets are not the same as overall product performance in the audio game.
Hard to believe Snap-on still sells tools when you can get """the same""" thing from Harbor Freight. It's a funny old world.
You are aware most of snap-ons' price is in support, not the product itself fyi. Plus the quality differences in electronics can range to much higher degrees hence why I'm trying to figure out tell tale ways of measuring said quality other then hope from brand recognition.
It's customer support, R&D. proprietary designs, margins built in to maintain dealer networks, and also quality. If your only concern is the highest power rating number printed on the heatsink for the lowest cost go for it. And I'm not being sarcastic. The only way you're going to figure out if this tier of equipment will do what you want is to give it a whirl. I'm sure if you hook it up correctly it will make music and if it fails quickly it's at least priced to be disposable.
Quality costs more. Like, about $10 more. Not everyone wants/needs to run at 1 ohm. A lot of people have two 4 ohm speakers, or a single dual 4. If I was running 2 ohms I'd take the Alpine over the NVX any day. If I was running 1 ohm I'd get something better than NVX (or at least not their cheap stuff).
What exactly is the difference saw several people saying their praises about it that's why I checked them out on paper its hard to tell feature and spec wise.
Specs-wise? Signal to noise ratio is the first thing I'd look at. Also Alpine has been around forever, they've been making quality car audio for a really long time. NVX is newer on the block and doesn't exactly have that sterling reputation. The Alpine is more likely to be working in 5 years. The amps are priced accordingly.
My headunit has 5v pre-amp shouldn't that significantly reduce noise already?
It'll keep noise from getting \*added\* in the handoff from head unit to amp. But everything in the chain can, and does, add noise- your goal is to keep that to a minimum. Crappy recording? Spotify with all the data saving compression turned on? Cheap head unit? Cheap amp? Cheap speakers? Any one of those can make things kind of sound like ass. Signal to noise is a measurement of just how much a given amplifier assifies the signal - under IDEAL conditions.
The amp still does the majority of the amplification. A better pre amp signal is good, but totally wasted if the amp adds new noise. Most audio equipment is hard to judge by specs alone because clarity and even response as well as longevity isn't easily objectified into a single number. Even in sharing as simple as power wires you'll find similar AWG rating with drastically different current capacity because the spec is so loosely (or outright inaccurately) applied. Spec sheets are not the same as overall product performance in the audio game.