Captain Howdy YOU ARE ON CRACK

You are completely remiss in your assertions. I have worked with and for
PPI for most of its real existance in car audio. I can unequivocably tell
you that PPI never bought ORION Heatsinks and repainted them. Back then,
almost all amplifiers had the same look. Square, with fins. They may be
similar, but they were not the same.

Regarding the Phaze Audio claim, you are once again incorrect. The original
owners of PPI ( a brother and sister ) sold to a gentleman from Indiana who
was also the owner of Phaze Audio LLC. The selling price was over double
the then current value of PPI.

Phaze Audio LLC made a few thousand amplifiers on their own prior to buying
PPI in 1998. They dropped their current product lines and continued with
the PPI products as they were better designed, manufacturing friendly and
had decent profit margins. You got it backwards, Phaze Audio LLC did
business under the PPI brand names. Their own products fell by the
wayside. Poor management and unproven embezzlement led to the demise of
Phaze Audio LLC DBA PPI.

ADST purchased the remaining assets and brand name of PPI. Phaze Audio went
the way of the Dodo. The PPI product lines under ADST management made up
almost 75% of ADST sales. But, once again upper management would not
listen to reason and spent far too much time, effort and monies on trying
to make their money losing brands profitable again. Even the PPI brands
suffered when really poor Engineering decisions were made by NON-Engineers
and managers who had inflated ego's and no common sense. The owner of ADST
trusted these people and believed their lies and half truths. Most of
these trusted few resigned or were fired when it was discovered that they
had created a house of cards. By that time it was too late and ADST Inc
was sold to DEI. DEI still makes the PPI line of Amplifiers and some
Signal processors, but IMHO they cannot hold a candle to the originals.
They are now made overseas by a company that makes many brands of
amplifiers for many other companies. If you want an inkling as to the
popularity of the new PPI lines, visit Ebay and check out just how many
people are bidding on the PCX series amplifiers offered there. Then, check
out the bidding on the older models such as the Art Series and the M an AM
series. QED

BTW there was only one "ART" series. Those are the PPI amplifiers whose
names begin with "A". The "M" series was PPI first line of amplifiers
using MOSFETS in their power supply. The "AM" series was an improved
version of the "M" series. The White w/Graphics and Black w/graphics were
simply mid-design cycle changes to promote sales, much like the PPI
Powerclass line and the subsequent chrome version of the same.

p.s If you look closely on an ART series amplifier, you will find the
initials CHY. The artist name is/was Carolyn Hall Young.

John Andreen





Captain Howdy wrote:

Back in those days, Orion ampifier heatsinks were hand crafted, in their
Tempe AZ factory. The Orion GX line was out way before the PPI Art Series
line. The PPI Art Series line came out around the same time as the Orion
SX line of amplifiers. I'm not saying that PPI stole anything. What I am
saying is that they bough the GX line from Orion and repained them and
sold them as their early Art Series line. A short time after the Art
Series came out PPI changed the case to a finless rounded end heatsink
like the one found on the A100 and A200 amplifier. The next time that you
come across a PPI 2075AM, 4200AM or 2150M, take a close look and you'll
see what I mean.

Here is another inferesting fact that many people are unaware of, PPI used
to sell gear under the Phaze Audio name.






In article xcyzb.416545$Fm2.424716@attbi_s04, "Paul Vina"
wrote:
SO? Lots of companies get parts from the same vendors. And how do you
know it was PPI that stole anyone's design (assuming there was any copying
in the first place)?



Paul Vina