AMPLIFIER CAR MASSIVE P400.2 2CH

A totally classic design slab of Aluminium extrusion, with power and speaker connections on one end and the connections for RCA only (no speaker level connection) plus the crossovers on the other. This is like an RS version of a Ford in as much as it is not about bling and pretties, just horsepower and performance, stuff the flash. That said, the heatsink is finished in a good looking gunmetal shade and the top surface has a slab of clear Plexiglas held onto it by small flanges of the side cap pieces and the ‘Massive’ logo is engraved under the middle of this, with the words ‘400 Watts’ across the end of it. This is under a protective sticky polythene layer which is left on until you have finalised your installation and are thus less likely to scratch it. Slab then illuminates under power in a blue colour and looks like those edge-illuminated menus at eateries, or the neck-danglers used to promote electronics companies at the CES. (Oddly enough, more blue is seen across this piece when the protective polythene is still stuck to the face because the light is only bent about by changes in refractive indices of the two clear layers and irregularities in the polythene layer, whose surface is less smooth than the polished Plexiglas that refraction’s also why the engravings glow too.) The RCAs are not gold plated but are covered in small clear rubbery protective condoms until you use them. There is a switch to depress if you want to drive all four channels from one set of RCA inputs in bridged mode and a simple set of HPF/Flat/LPF switches to operate a single crossover for each pair of channels. Apart from that, a frequency pot to sweep said crossovers between their 50Hz to 750Hz range and a gain potentiometer per pair is all she wrote.
The manual is equally straightforward with no fat on it but looks to be as entire as anyone could need.
This amp adheres to and has been granted use of the USA Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) rating system label for power amplifiers’ comparability they sorted out back in ’06 and so can be relied upon to drop the watts it says on the heatsink, which is nice.
– Class AB
– 4 x 100w RMS @ 4 Ohms (CEA 2006 Compliant)
– 2 x 200w RMS @ 4 Ohms bridged
– Aluminium heatsink with illuminated logo
– 12mm wide power terminals for fork connection, would take 4 gauge
– 4Ch RCA input
– Adjustable input sensitivity: 12mV to 5V
– Stereo & Mono operation
– Frequency response 15Hz to 25kHz
– Signal to Noise Ratio not quoted
– Channel separation >80dB
– High Pass Filter 18dB per Octave 50Hz to 750Hz
– Low Pass Filter 18dB per Octave 50Hz to 750Hz
– Fuse Rating 40A x1
– HxWxD(mm) 66 x 280 x 214mm
– Complete with 6-step QC certificate