No "eek" - Actually, price is $550 (authorized) for > 1100 watts.

Still looking for feedback from any owners!

I'm actually looking at the px300.4 in addition to the bpx1100.1.  It'll
give me 125w RMS x 4 at 4ohms - better than my current Alpine MRV-F540 -
I've got the alpine bridged (200w RMS x 2) to run my Focal 6.5" comps, but
that's just too much power for them - I have to be very careful with the
volume control.

The PX300.4 AND the BPX1100.1 both are "neon ready" - they'll each take 2
StreetGlow 9" AN9 series tubes - they even come with clips for the tubes and
everything.

Let me know how you like the amp - I'm doing a "re-install" and moving
everything from the seat-backs to built-up amp racks in the trunk of my Mach
1.

Gary

The S/N ratio for the new JBL PX300.4 is about 76 dBa.  Like you said,
that's under the new CEA-2006 standard of measuring S/N.  Under the
old method, it would have been closer to 102 dBa.

But the important thing is that even 76 dBa under the OLD system would
have been  plenty high enough.  At only 76 dBa, which you say "sucks",
the signal is still more than 46,000,000 times stronger than the
noise.  You'd never hear the noise anyway.

For the most part, I like the new CEA standard, but it doesn't change
the fact that the marketing types will abuse it.  With current amps,
the salesdroids try to convince you that a S/N ratio of 102 dB is
"better" than a S/N ratio of 90 dB.  With the new CEA 2006 standard,
they'll continue to do the same thing, but the numbers will be lower.
They'll still try to upsell you from amp X to amp Y because amp Y has
a 76 dB S/N ratio compared to amp X's 73 dB ratio.  

Also, since Joe Average consumer will never know the difference
between the two measuring standards, the salesbot will be free to tell
THIS lie all day-- "Under the OLD standard, this amp's signal to noise
ratio would have been 105 dB!" (or 110, or 112, or whatever he wants
to claim.)  People won't know how to convert the "new" numbers into
the "old" numbers that they're used to, so the salesbot will be happy
to do it for them, making the amp sound as good as he wants to in the
process.

Likewise with damping factor.  I'm still looking into exactly how the
new numbers are derived, but it looks like they've reduced the scale
so that all amps will now have an "effective damping factor" of
significantly less than 10.  

These new measuring standards are nice, but it doesn't change the fact
that the damping factor and S/N ratio for ANY modern solid-state amp
are already so high that the manufacturers don't need to list them at
all, much less worry about a new standard so they can list them
differently.

Scott Gardner