Need help to find the right amplifier for my Subwoofer


That should work great...the guybi sold my old subs bought the 2k version and it sound clean without breaking the bank...but anything that'll give you a legit 400-700 watts would get it moving...

You putting it in a sealed or ported box? Sealed will take more power than ported but ported will give more volume (provided you set gains and subsonic correctly)
 
Basically you need 400 watts rms at either a 4 ohm load or at a 1 ohm load. Hard to say much beyond that without knowing what brands are available to you and your budget.
 
Don't buy boss...they are extremely over rated on power and just cheap quality amps all around...there's plenty of good amps around that price range...
 
This amp would fit the bill for sure.








Wire your sub to the amp at 2 ohms. You will get 500 watts (when you really really crank it up) which will be plenty of power for your sub.
 

They ship free worldwide...and has plenty of power for your sub...and better than a boss...wire your sub to 4 ohm and you're good...
 
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I wouldnt spend many funds on an amplifier for that sub.. Id prob look at a Harmony 400.1. Should be enough power for that sub without breaking the Bank. May even look on Facebook and find a decent 500-600 RMS mono block

 
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Also extremely low quality as is Boss and Soundstream.

You've rather shot yourself in the foot buying a dual 2 ohm sub because most of the 300-500W type amplifiers on the market are meant to make power into 2 ohms (your sub can only do 1 or 4).

IMO best bet I saw on that site would be to buy the JBL 600.1 or whatever (about 350 aussie-bux) and run it at 4 ohm for now and you could run it at 2 ohm later if you bought a second one of those subs if you need/want more output. Kenwood, Kicker, Pioneer should also be reliable and available in your country but will likely be at similar price points to the JBL.
 
You def shouldn’t exceed the rms power rating. That rating is basically how much the sub can take all day long without “cooking” the voice-coil. Power ratings are based on the thermal limits of the sub. The sub obviously also has mechanical limits but you’ll hear it when you reach those. I’d say look for a 2ch Class-D full range amp that’s 1ohm stereo/2ohm mono stable. You can start it on 4ohms mono with the single sub and wire it to 2ohms mono if you get another. Gives you future expandability and also gives you the option of using it for the front/rear stage if you buy a bigger sub amp in the future. There are some good options out there that’ll put out 400w @ 4ohms mono & 800w @ 2ohms mono. Ebay is the best place to look for ideas and check specs.
 
You def shouldn’t exceed the rms power rating. That rating is basically how much the sub can take all day long without “cooking” the voice-coil. Power ratings are based on the thermal limits of the sub. The sub obviously also has mechanical limits but you’ll hear it when you reach those. I’d say look for a 2ch Class-D full range amp that’s 1ohm stereo/2ohm mono stable. You can start it on 4ohms mono with the single sub and wire it to 2ohms mono if you get another. Gives you future expandability and also gives you the option of using it for the front/rear stage if you buy a bigger sub amp in the future. There are some good options out there that’ll put out 400w @ 4ohms mono & 800w @ 2ohms mono. Ebay is the best place to look for ideas and check specs.
POPPY-COCK. Speakers come with 2 ratings. RMS and Peak. Peak is what the sub can handle in a quick burst. If you max out your settings and accidentally crank it all the way for a second and turn it down, you won't blow your speakers.

RMS is Root Mean Sqaure. In short - it is where the speaker is most efficient. It is not the all day limit. That limit is something that could be 600, 800, 1,000, 1,200, even 1,500 on these speakers. It is not something that is tested, and not something we know. It's silly for companies to even try to figure that out because settings are different, voltage varies, amps vary, and so do speakers.
 
A few got it right. I wouldn't bother with spending money on anything but a simple 1 ohm amp that can do 400 - personally you could higher than 700, but that's your call, and you might not want to for a few reasons. It won't make much of a difference going beyond 400, but you definitely have the option to.

Just in case, you also need to know this, for every 100w your amp is: you divide by voltage, and then divide it by your amp's efficiency to get your draw.
100w / 14.4v = 6.95 amps. Then / .85 (average amp efficiency) = 8.16 amp draw you are adding to your electrical system for about every 100w your amp is.
32.6 amps for 400w amp
65.2 amps for 800w draw.
You have room to add more than 400w of power, but it's a climbing slope of putting more power in, and getting less and less more out of it.

You're in that range you need to consider what alternator you have, and how much more of a draw do you want to put on your vehicle's electrical system. 32 extra amps, and you probably don't need to upgrade your alternator. 65 amps, and depending on what you listen to and for how long, and you might/probably do.
 
POPPY-COCK. Speakers come with 2 ratings. RMS and Peak. Peak is what the sub can handle in a quick burst. If you max out your settings and accidentally crank it all the way for a second and turn it down, you won't blow your speakers.

RMS is Root Mean Sqaure. In short - it is where the speaker is most efficient. It is not the all day limit. That limit is something that could be 600, 800, 1,000, 1,200, even 1,500 on these speakers. It is not something that is tested, and not something we know. It's silly for companies to even try to figure that out because settings are different, voltage varies, amps vary, and so do speakers.
Those peak ratings are just as useless as amp max wattage ratings. Do you play music for 1 second at a time? If you do there are bigger problems going on here.

You are correct about what RMS stands for, but you go off script when applying that to a subwoofer. RMS is technically an amplifier rating. When talking about subs it’s taken in a different context. The RMS rating on a driver is meant to be a guideline for what to power it with in amplifier terms. The manufacturer 100% knows what the sub should take daily. The peak ratings are just marketing. They could say 10kw peak (and some do) on a sub rated to handle 1000w RMS. I’ll power mine at 1000w, you power it at 2500w, let’s see whose sub lasts longer and sounds better (overpowering will also cause the sub to reach its mechanical limits - very bad). Also, there isn’t any wizardry or black magic when designing/engineering subs, it’s all math and science. Completely calculable and known through material science, finite element analysis, computer modeling etc. Simply put, if a sub manufacturer knows the sub could take more power they would tell you. Power handling = money. It would be bad marketing to not “brag” about what your sub can do.

Running a single sub that is rated at 400w rms is clearly not an SPL burp vehicle. So we’re talking about a daily driver. If the sub is in a sealed enclosure then I wouldn’t be too worried about 500w. Beyond that you’re risking blown up subs. You don’t have to take my word for it. I contacted Audio Frog about their GB12. I wanted to know what they thought about me running them at 800w? The answer was, “that should be ok but set the subsonic filter at 30hz so you don’t damage the driver”. Below 30hz is my happy place. I turn subsonic filters off. So, I’m not the proud owner of a pair of Audio Frogs. I needed something that could take more power.

So, if you want to drive the sub beyond its ratings you should start filtering out the lowest frequencies… But, what’s the point of that? I want all the lowest ****! Why buy a sub if it wont get low? So go ahead feed that poor sub 1000w but if you want it to live for more than 30min I’d cut everything below 40hz. Then you can brag about how loud your system gets doing 44hz burps…
 
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Those peak ratings are just as useless as amp max wattage ratings. Do you play music for 1 second at a time? If you do there are bigger problems going on here.

Running a single sub that is rated at 400w rms is clearly not an SPL burp vehicle. So we’re talking about a daily driver. If the sub is in a sealed enclosure then I wouldn’t be too worried about 500w. Beyond that you’re risking blown up subs. You don’t have to take my word for it. I contacted Audio Frog about their GB12. I wanted to know what they thought about me running them at 800w? The answer was, “that should be ok but set the subsonic filter at 30hz so you don’t damage the driver”. Below 30hz is my happy place. I turn subsonic filters off. So, I’m not the proud owner of a pair of Audio Frogs. I needed something that could take more power.

So, if you want to drive the sub beyond its ratings you should start filtering out the lowest frequencies… But, what’s the point of that? I want all the lowest ****! Why buy a sub if it wont get low? So go ahead feed that poor sub 1000w but if you want it to live for more than 30min I’d cut everything below 40hz. Then you can brag about how loud your system gets doing 44hz burps…
It’s also worth noting what is/isn’t gained by increasing wattage. It would take a lot more than doubling the wattage (over rms) to gain any useful increase in db. Why waste that money? Buy a better quality 400-500w amp with better S/N ratio, THD, Damping factor, & frequency response. It’ll sound better
 
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