Skar Audio SK-M5001D Compact Monoblock Class D MOSFET Car Amplifier, 500W

Great amp plenty of power to push the skar 10” sub behind my Tacoma seat

Installed to drive a 12" sub in the trunk of a Mustang. Easy install and does a fine job!!

This amp is awesome! Had a defective bass knob with the amp but didn't affect the performance. Contacted them and they had a new bass knob and wire sent to me free of charge and fast! The knob works great and I can now adjust the bass at full range. The amp does get pretty hot when using it for awhile but hasn't gone into protection mode yet. So we will see. Thanks again

Great little amp for the price. The one and only downfall is the fan that runs on the bottom of the amp. Mine's installed in my 06 Tacoma, and when I have the music down I can hear the fan running quite audibly. I wish I knew that was a feature beforehand - I would have just ordered another RP800.1D. Overall Skar has incredible products for the price!

Skar Audio tells the truth. This 500 watt rated amp definitely is at least 500 watts. You can see amp dyno tests on their website, and other people perform dyno tests on YouTube, and Skar amps do at least what they claim they will. Skar amps internal parts and design are shown in the pictures available for the consumer. This reveal is impressive and a very cool advertising concept. The companies who don't lie about their product, or give the highest possible pulse peak watt rating, have the integrity to sell you a product that does what it is supposed to do. Skar has a two year warranty, where even the other highest quality companies have a one year warranty. I am, and always have been a Rockford Fosgate fanatic. I also believe that all the best companies have several grades of amplifiers. RF's Prime line has their lesser quality but most affordable products. The Prime 500×l amp costs a bit more than Skars 500×1(higher quality line) amp. I feel confident saying the Skar amp is a considerably better amp. Over all less money can be spent on Skar products for superior products with comparable quality and performance as JL, Rockford, Orion, Soundstream, or any higher quality manufacturer. I compared two RF p3d4 12 inch subwoofers to one Skar EVL 15 inch subwoofer, both wired @ 1 ohm to a RF 1000×1 bd (1465 watt) amp. I think the Skar EVL sounds better!

I am on my second amp, having returned the first for heating up and going into protect. The second does the same thing. I am only getting about 10 minutes of listening time before it shuts off. I have tested on a 2 and 4 ohm load and it shuts off with both, and it does not matter if the music is bass heavy or not. Very frustrating because it sounds amazing, when it works. I have the amp mounted with plenty of airflow around it. UPDATE- I added a small fan and the amp worked great, until there was a loud pop and smoke began pouring out of the amp. I was listening to a podcast when it occurred, nothing bass heavy. I had to pull the fuse on my distribution block, the protect mode on the amp did not cut power. Please do not buy this.

Bought this combination, sub amp and kit pictured. Hooked it up in my old 99 chevy ext cab fits perfect amp and sub is compact on top of having a lot more bass than I thought it would! Hooked mine up high input off factory head unit after researching if you don't use pre amp jack converter that you might possibly have heating issues.. Works perfect barely gets warm and I play mine steady atleast 30-45 min at a time! Bass is good the little 8 knocks hard behind me and is not at all distorted as some can be when that close. All in all great combination if you want to add a lot more knock to your factory system I wouldn't hesitate!

The amplifier works and it sounds pretty good. I think it has plenty of power for the subwoofers that I am running off of it. The high level input wires could be a little better quality. Yet, they work and the amplifier works just fine. Thank you for the amplifier.

Skar audio makes excellent products and the are absolutely pumping out the rated power and more. Williston audio labs has many excellent reviews on them, don't be a big dummy and buy one of those 10,000 watt amps for half the price of this. You get what you pay for with skar. This is not a mickey mouse program. As soon as you pick it up you'll know.

Awesome little amp. Very stable signal. Tuned with an oscilloscope to match my sub.