Customer
Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2025
Worked well while I had it. Got the bass bug and moment with a much larger setup very quickly but no complaints while I had it
Seulement en anglais
Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2024
Fait parfaitement la job!
Jeremy
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
I have zero complaints. If I had to not pick, if complain about the way the wires are tightened. I'm not sure how other amps hold the power cables but this feels like a hazard if you car tools in the same trunk. I feel like a staple could cause the two screws to touch
Big Rip :)
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2024
Works great and delivers smooth clear bass to my 8in Skar Shallow mount sub !
David Mondor
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2024
Convient parfaitement a un Mazda Miata NB.Avec le bazooka Skar de 8" c’est le parfait duo!Puissance incroyable pour une petite amplificateur de 350w! ATTENTION DE NE PAS FAIRE EXPLOSER VOTRE SUB!Skar a réussi a me surprendre! C’est devenu ma marque préférée!!
MrDiY614
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2024
This thing is a great value. I paired it with a skar svd8 inch subwoofer and it sounds awesome. It performs very well for a small amp and has plenty of power to push the little 8 inch sub. I haven't noticed it getting hot or anything and haven't had any issues with any distortion or it going into protect mode so overall I am super happy with it. It's small and compact and doesn't weigh much at all so that's a plus too.
sudsycloud454
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2024
Needed a small amp to go with a Pioneer 12" for my wife's car. It's the same sub I have in my car, both in sealed boxes, but I have a Kicker 300.1 amp in mine.This amp is small compared to the Kicker. About 1/3 the size. The bigger terminals don't like smaller wire, so I had to fold the ends over and solder them even on the remote turn-on wire.Don't get me wrong, it puts out plenty of thump, especially for the money. But it's not quite as crisp and doesn't hit as hard as the Kicker. I mean, I was able to rattle the windows in the house with some DJ Magic Mike. Everyone came out of the house when it was cranked. Just those lows are missing some life. At the same time, playing some death metal hits hard but like I said, it's missing that crispness. When tuned, there's no distortion muddling the sound.If you just want to add some bass that you can feel and sounds decent, it's a great little amp. But it's also not a high quality audiophile amp if that's what you want. I'll give it four stars only because it's not a five star amp. Outside of that, nothing would stop me from recommending it to someone.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2024
Received a new amp. Hook it up and it goes into protect mode for two seconds, then powers on. But puts out very little power. Contact skar customer service, they run me through tests and all checks out but amp still goes into protect mode. Send the amp in, they send it back with no communication. Same problem. They send me a new amp, same problem. I hooked it up in my other vehicle that's running a Kicker amp for years and the skar goes into protect mode. I ask for a refund on my NEW amp they just sent me and Skar says "sorry, you're out of the 30 day return window". I just got the new amp 2 days ago!Amazon to the rescue! I tell them what's happened and they allowed me to return the amp.
dan piscopo
Reviewed in Canada on November 22, 2024
Works just fine, but I expected a lot more from this company as their subs are really good quality! It doesn’t even have fuses in the back like EVERY other amplifier does!
Brayden greene
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024
Wired it up via skars Instructions to a new12" 400 watt rms skar tube and got nothing but a blue light, made sure I had good connections and tried different inputs but got nothing, tried out a spare amp and sub on the same wiring and worked perfectly, will be sending this amp back for a new one of the same model and will update if it ends up just being something wrong with this particular amp.Update: the issue was the amp itself, they sent me a new one and it worked fine with the same setup and I'd say it's well worth the money.
Tyler
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2023
After using only Sundown products for the last 7 years, it came a time when I wanted to build a budget build and Sundown was not in it. For years i've seen the massive amount of what I will now call 'propaganda' against this company which said it's products were terrible. Not only is that untrue, my experience is 100% the opposite in my limited time with it. The RP-4500 is as powerful as you would expect a 4500w rms amplifier to be, it has lots of power. For an amplifier that does not include an internal fan to keep cool, the beefy heatsink does a wonderful job even in hot sun of keeping the amp within temp on near clipping load for over an hour. Sound quality wise it is no different than the most expensive sundown amplifiers or the least expensive down4sound amplifiers, in my experience. Budget wise it provides one of the best price per watt ratios in the amp market right now. Very happy with this purchase.What I think could make this board better would be to include a clip indicator knob and maybe a cooling fan. A foam gasket around the back panel of the amplifier would be great to reduce vibration induced noise/rattle. Sundown audio amplifiers for example include this gasketing.
jarrett cross
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
The sound quality that this Amp had was amazing. Leaps and bounds better than the 10 year old Amp that it replaced. But it was very short lived. It lasted 5 days and has developed a direct short to ground. Update* scar sent a shipping label and are going to verify the problem then send another amp once they've verified the failure. Fun fact, they offer a 2 year warranty. I'd rate the seller high but I'm going to wait until I receive and test the replacement Amp before I update the review.Update: skar sent another amp and once again....this little amp out performs the Blaupunkt 750watt amp that I was using for a backup while I was waiting on skar to send another amp. Wow. I may be asking too much for this Amp now but it's pushing 2 punch p1 10s quite well. But I do believe that I'll be upgrading to a larger skar amplifier in the near future. The customer service has been amazing and they have definitely earned a repeat customer here.
Skar audio 100%
Reviewed in Mexico on October 12, 2023
Excelente