Alpine MRV-F300 with Amplifier Wiring Kit

Great sound, great value

I was struggling with amp choice for my Mini Cooper sound system upgrade. So many choices and nearly impossible to know how they sound like without install that amp into YOUR car to drive the speakers YOU have. So this review is based on R56 Mini Cooper with JL Audio C2-600 components and C2-690CX.

Installation of Alpine MRV-F300 was a breeze due to its well designed interface and physical size. I mounted it vertically behind side panel onto a 1/4" MDF in truck area and still able to access to all the control on the side. Owner's manual was well designed and can be easily download onto iPad to use as reference. All connectors feels solid once cables are in.

Now come to the sound. I was blown away when I first turn it on. For $200 it was clean and surprisingly warmish with great detail. No significant flaw and nothing harsh on high/mid, vocal is balanced with good stage image (I have 'sit' right in the middle between front seats), bass on another hand having been coloured, which made Bass sound massive, cello sound like bass before I had to readjust the crossover/gain for both front and back. This could be the speakers too. Since I'm using speaker level input so I set front gain to just below 9'o clock position, rear 6x9s gets minim gain. Front channel on full range and rear has low pass with crossover set to 80hz. This allows me to get well balanced full range without overwhelming bass.

I'm very happy with my choice, only thing I wish better is bass for control and less colouring, but this maybe the deal with most car amps on the market. I'm an audiophile when it comes to home stereo, this entire upgrade to my Mini Cooper sound system (speakers, amp and sound deadening) is cheaper then an interconnect cable I use on the phono preamp, but I can now listen to it for hours and enjoy.

Test CDs:
1. Diabolus in Musica . Accardo interpreta Paganini
2. Burmester Reference CD III
3. Dynaudio Accentuations Guitar Impressions
4. The Famous Sound FIM
5. In Admiration Of Music, Dali CD Vol. 1
6. Lakatos - Roby Lakatos and His Ensemble
7. Earfood, Roy Hargrove Quintet
8. Audio Reference III - The Super Extended Resolution Sound Of TBM

Nice quality!

This product made my infinity kappas come to life sound quality is impresive, i'm running 4 infinity kappas in my civic 2012 @ 2oms each volume became much better and i have the gain turn dowm.

Great value

Fast shipping works great with no problems. I would order other if i ever needed it

Ok starter Kit

It's a ok kit to buy but check the RCA jacks my kit came defective one pair of RCA jacks failed. When I finished completely installing it in my truck and turned on the head unit only to fine out 3 of my 4 channel amp was working had to take out the multimeter tested the Amp then uninstall all the head unit tested RCA jacks and one pair was defective I would assume that they would work they are New. So save time and test the RCA jacks for continuity.

By JESUS C on December 28, 2020 Verified purchase

Great value!

Fast shipping and I recommend it for anyone. Everything u see in the picture is what u get.

stellar

This amp is awesome. Small, elegant, clear, and loud. This thing cranks the Infinity Kappas in my Sequoia. I love it

Good Value Kit!

Everything I needed and good quality wire, not like some other cheap thin gauge wire you get in similarly priced kits elsewhere.

By Adam on February 1, 2018 Verified purchase

Great value

Included in a bundle package for the price well worth it

By Chad on September 15, 2017 Verified purchase

Great deals

I recommend this to anyone. The shipping is fast and you always get a good deal.

Great product

I have this amp running alpine type s speakers off of an alpine HU and wow, iv never heard something so clean. I tuned this amp using the smd cc1 and dd1. This really makes a difference from my old rockford prime amp. Also i have fans running to cool my amps and with the rockford, it would distort the speakers when the fans were on, now the alpine supposedly fixed that problem.

By Z on April 28, 2015 Verified purchase