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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2782916" data-attributes="member: 550915"><p>You can't really make either statement with any degree of certainty.  There are a lot of variables at play.  If you are clipping the crap out of an amp rated at the same power as the sub, yes you will probably kill it, but you can't say that with certainty.  Unclipped power (with or without bass boost) listening to music, the thermal rating of the sub isn't nearly as important as the mechanical.  Bass boost by itself isn't a bad thing.  The problem comes when one thinks that you can crank the gain higher than it shoud be anyway and then add bass boost on top of that.  Hello clipping.  Gain from the bass boost is not different than gain from another source.  It still requires power to realize that gain.  If that extra powr demand drives the amp into clipping, there is your problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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