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Originally Posted by ChrisB

Certain old RF amps actually colored the sound and measured that way.



RF, Kicker, MTX, and Linear power were all known to do something similar to the above at one point in time.

This response graph is for a T500-2. This particular model was in production just a few years ago, therefore I certainly wouldn't consider it "old school". Rockfords philosophy was to intentionally provide this curve essentially to compensate for typical losses in the automotive enviornment, especially while driving. I may be wrong, but I believe they still employ this on their current amplifiers. I'm certainly not trying to say that this is wrong or a poor design, but I do get a kick out of it when I talk to people who have recently installed a newer RF amp and they claim that the bass and treble are much improved over older models. I'm a self proclaimed RF nut and 96-00 was also my favorite era of gear. I'm a fan of most of their products prior to and after this period, but I think the fact that since I was out of high shcool and making some real money to buy gear was the big reason for my love of the 96-00 era. I also remember that all of their amps in this era came with "birthsheets" and every new amp had a ruler flat freq response from 20-20k