NUFORCE AMPS FOR PASSIVE SUBWOOFERS

Vicdamone- Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't need an amp with any 'high pass filter and gain control with low and high level inputs'. My Lexicon pre/pro does all that. I just want a power amp only. Looks like you really know your bass!! (I HAD two Velodyne DD-15 subs and as much as I tried with the EQ/RTA, I couldn't get them to match with my Apogee's. They seem too restricted and not musical. Movies were great(although I hit their limit) but music comes first. Sold them.) Any cooler running/high damping sub amp brands for me to try?!

Jim- I want to start a thread soon about the SW800's because I have ALOT of questions. But stickin' to this thread:
1) The SW800 subs I just bought a month ago from a local Audiogon member have 6(SIX) 10"-woofers per side. Which I have never seen before and they have no serial #'s on them.(Custom?) So, 100watt amp divided by 6 woofers=16watts each. Not going to cut it, no way. BTW they are 4ohm, so 32watts. Still not close enough. I would like at MINIMUM 50watts per woofer. 50x6=300watts. Optimal, 80x6=480 QUALITY watts.

2) When the sw800's originally sold new they came with Kinergetic 500watt monoblock sub amps. That was with 5-10"(not 6 like mine) woofers per side. 5x100=500watts.

3) I have a workhorse Adcom 5800 that puts out easily 250watts per side. It rocked every sub I have tried with it. I used on the SW800's, the woofer suspension barely moved even cranked up! 6x41=246watts. No way Jose, not enough power.

I the meantime I have a second Velodyne SMS1 coming in two weeks to run them in stereo. By then I will have my H2O ICE amp back to try that on the subs! I love this hobby! : )

I forget the model designation, but Tony did produce the SW800's you describe as a later series -- not a lot of them around. I forgot the details of our conversation about them, but I recall it being an aesthetic thing -- the 5 driver SW800's we5re designed to be the same height as the CLS on spikes. The taller SW800 is the same height as the CLS on the dedicated Arcici stands. The original SW800 amps were combined with the crossovers, so there were actually two crossover/amp units in the system. The single SW800C Platinum crossover and the KBA75 are working very well for me. I can shake the house and rarely get the crossover volume control near its max.

I personally am not familiar with it, but what about one of the new UCd700 module based monoblocks from DIY cable as a possible contender as well.

Mike