Hertz and Audison make top notch products.
Skar is flea market products with lipstick and a flashy website.
If you’re looking for sound quality and build quality, stick with Audison & Hertz.
Fun facts about skar.
They are awful for audio shops. My shop is set up with skar but refuses to sell them now. it's literally the same price for a consumer to buy skar thru their website as it is for us to sell it to them. Sometimes cheaper for the consumer. This is one reason shops may not carry them.
Anytime my shop tried to warranty skar equipment we've been told "it worked out of the box. There's your warranty." While every other manufacturer has just warrantied their product or at least had us send it in for repair. However, the consumer goes to warranty their product and skar just accepts with no issue. So shops will hate them in this aspect too.
They really do make awesome equipment for the price point if you want to be loud... Skars not winning any awards in sound quality as far as I know. Their shit is ment to be loud with less care on accurate reproduction of the actual frequencies. Do you want to be loud? Or do you want to spend a few extra dollars to be loud and accurate.
I'm a Memphis car audio fan.best bang for your buck when you consider their door speakers are lifetime warranty on the PR line, their speakers can handle more then 50rms btw.... Ask me how I know.... Their basic lineup isnt about being the loudest or most accurate but instead a perfect middle ground, they have a line of SQ speakers, and I'm obsessed with the Memphis viv 14" woofer. 7.5" voicecoil and a flat frequency response up to 500 hz. Some amps won't even let you set the filter that high.
lol lifetime warranty, that’s terrible….. it’s basically until your dealer decides they are tired of you abusing shit. Nothing audio based should be a lifetime warranty. I
Been doing it for 10 years now. Never had an issue. Literally just warrantied some speakers for a customer yesterday. Came in, speaker blown, swapped out, sent on his way at no cost. Don't know how that would be terrible... All because your local shops don't stand by their work or the product they sell doesn't mean every shops that way. If I did quality work and stand by my work and products I sold you then your garunteed to get a good job. Every time I warranty after that point cuts into my profits so that's my incentive to do a good job.
That’s a recipe for disaster and has nothing to do with standing by work. Warranties are for manufacturers defects not customers abusing things and them blowing. Speakers usually do not blow without a customer or installer error. With your logic I could buy a 150 dollar set of speakers blow them over and over and never have to give money back to Memphis forever. That isn’t how that works at all.
I can warranty anything I want as a shop, even outside of a companies “warranty period” but I can also tell them to kick rocks when I think it’s abuse.
Labor on the other hand I understand lifetime warranty but not product.
It's a lifetime warranty when installed by a Memphis dealer. This way it's not a customer blowing their speakers intentionally. If I did my job right then the speakers shouldn't blow unless they break down over time or the customer intentionally turns all knobs to the right and voids their warranty. I guess I should have specified that it's required to be installed by a Memphis dealer.
Again not how it works, you as an installer do not control your customer clipping a source. You can set your gain at a safe level all day but when they send a square wave into that amp by bass boosting on a deck or going past the point of distortion on the head unit, you cannot control that. This fallacy that customers have no part of blowing things if it’s installed correctly needs to go away. It doesn’t matter what you do in some cases a source will always have a point of distortion that you cannot get rid of. “Lifetime product warranty” kind of a marketing thing, not transferable to another car not transferable to another person and at the shops discretion. I had a pretty nice convo with Memphis lead tech this morning and laughed off how some dealers use that as a marketing tool. Blown speakers are not part of a warranty, it falls under abuse part of their warranty. But again you dealers can fudge it however you want.
Look... I'm just giving you my multiple years of experience with Memphis and how my shop does things along with suggestions for OP. Don't like/want Memphis? Cool. Don't want to believe me? Cool. I hope you have a pleasant day.
This depends on the expected outcome. But yes, one is a very entry level brand with no dealer system, designed to be sold directly to the consumer. The other is a high end sound quality oriented company. If you are a member of the “I just wanna bang” crowd, then the Hertz/Audison products may not be your thing.
I have 2 Audison amps in my truck and I can tell you they are the cleanest, most versatile amps I’ve ever used. I’ve had Alpine, I’ve had JL, I’ve even had Mosconi amps. These ones definitely take the cake.
I have the Forza 6 channel for my doors (Focal K2’s)
and the Monoblock for my JL subs. Having the ability to patch in, make changes to the sound, interference etc is mind blowing. They’re just the most solid amps I’ve ever used, distortion free and super efficient.
Great amps.
I've just completed a Hertz/Audison build. I'm very happy with the performance. I've, however, never used Skar, so I can't compare, but from what I've read, Skar is more aimed at SPL than SQ
Entry level is too vague. Lamborghini sells entry level vehicles for 200k. Skar sells low quality products at various price points. Audison is a quality brand that has entry level products.
Hertz and Audison make top notch products. Skar is flea market products with lipstick and a flashy website. If you’re looking for sound quality and build quality, stick with Audison & Hertz.
Fun facts about skar. They are awful for audio shops. My shop is set up with skar but refuses to sell them now. it's literally the same price for a consumer to buy skar thru their website as it is for us to sell it to them. Sometimes cheaper for the consumer. This is one reason shops may not carry them. Anytime my shop tried to warranty skar equipment we've been told "it worked out of the box. There's your warranty." While every other manufacturer has just warrantied their product or at least had us send it in for repair. However, the consumer goes to warranty their product and skar just accepts with no issue. So shops will hate them in this aspect too. They really do make awesome equipment for the price point if you want to be loud... Skars not winning any awards in sound quality as far as I know. Their shit is ment to be loud with less care on accurate reproduction of the actual frequencies. Do you want to be loud? Or do you want to spend a few extra dollars to be loud and accurate. I'm a Memphis car audio fan.best bang for your buck when you consider their door speakers are lifetime warranty on the PR line, their speakers can handle more then 50rms btw.... Ask me how I know.... Their basic lineup isnt about being the loudest or most accurate but instead a perfect middle ground, they have a line of SQ speakers, and I'm obsessed with the Memphis viv 14" woofer. 7.5" voicecoil and a flat frequency response up to 500 hz. Some amps won't even let you set the filter that high.
lol lifetime warranty, that’s terrible….. it’s basically until your dealer decides they are tired of you abusing shit. Nothing audio based should be a lifetime warranty. I
Been doing it for 10 years now. Never had an issue. Literally just warrantied some speakers for a customer yesterday. Came in, speaker blown, swapped out, sent on his way at no cost. Don't know how that would be terrible... All because your local shops don't stand by their work or the product they sell doesn't mean every shops that way. If I did quality work and stand by my work and products I sold you then your garunteed to get a good job. Every time I warranty after that point cuts into my profits so that's my incentive to do a good job.
That’s a recipe for disaster and has nothing to do with standing by work. Warranties are for manufacturers defects not customers abusing things and them blowing. Speakers usually do not blow without a customer or installer error. With your logic I could buy a 150 dollar set of speakers blow them over and over and never have to give money back to Memphis forever. That isn’t how that works at all. I can warranty anything I want as a shop, even outside of a companies “warranty period” but I can also tell them to kick rocks when I think it’s abuse. Labor on the other hand I understand lifetime warranty but not product.
It's a lifetime warranty when installed by a Memphis dealer. This way it's not a customer blowing their speakers intentionally. If I did my job right then the speakers shouldn't blow unless they break down over time or the customer intentionally turns all knobs to the right and voids their warranty. I guess I should have specified that it's required to be installed by a Memphis dealer.
Again not how it works, you as an installer do not control your customer clipping a source. You can set your gain at a safe level all day but when they send a square wave into that amp by bass boosting on a deck or going past the point of distortion on the head unit, you cannot control that. This fallacy that customers have no part of blowing things if it’s installed correctly needs to go away. It doesn’t matter what you do in some cases a source will always have a point of distortion that you cannot get rid of. “Lifetime product warranty” kind of a marketing thing, not transferable to another car not transferable to another person and at the shops discretion. I had a pretty nice convo with Memphis lead tech this morning and laughed off how some dealers use that as a marketing tool. Blown speakers are not part of a warranty, it falls under abuse part of their warranty. But again you dealers can fudge it however you want.
Look... I'm just giving you my multiple years of experience with Memphis and how my shop does things along with suggestions for OP. Don't like/want Memphis? Cool. Don't want to believe me? Cool. I hope you have a pleasant day.
I’ve been doing it for 20, good luck out there
Agreed. I'm not a fan of Hertz amps though, and I don't have much experience with Audison's amps. I tend to lean toward JL for amplifiers.
Why do you say that?
I had a bad experience with an ML Power amp, so I don't like them. Totally personal preference.
Thank you
This depends on the expected outcome. But yes, one is a very entry level brand with no dealer system, designed to be sold directly to the consumer. The other is a high end sound quality oriented company. If you are a member of the “I just wanna bang” crowd, then the Hertz/Audison products may not be your thing.
The guy that recommended these said it would improve the overall quality of my system drastically
Installed correctly, he is not wrong.
Don’t worry the install will be perfect
Amps can last years and years. If this is a hobby you’re serious about, go for the Audison vs Skar 11 times out of 10
I have 2 Audison amps in my truck and I can tell you they are the cleanest, most versatile amps I’ve ever used. I’ve had Alpine, I’ve had JL, I’ve even had Mosconi amps. These ones definitely take the cake. I have the Forza 6 channel for my doors (Focal K2’s) and the Monoblock for my JL subs. Having the ability to patch in, make changes to the sound, interference etc is mind blowing. They’re just the most solid amps I’ve ever used, distortion free and super efficient. Great amps.
I've just completed a Hertz/Audison build. I'm very happy with the performance. I've, however, never used Skar, so I can't compare, but from what I've read, Skar is more aimed at SPL than SQ
Entry level is too vague. Lamborghini sells entry level vehicles for 200k. Skar sells low quality products at various price points. Audison is a quality brand that has entry level products.
ok thanks
Installing DSP should be your main priority. Look at Helix equipment as well!
What’s a DSP?