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<blockquote data-quote="Deiimos" data-source="post: 8877269" data-attributes="member: 682903">I personally prefer more power on hand, that way you can achieve rated clean power, which is much better than dirty clipped power. Setting by ear could have caused this, and sent it way above rated power but clipped = guaranteed blown sub (you might have been feeding it 1500+ watts of dirty power depending how it was set, really hard to say though).What size coil does that CVX use? How long did you have this installed before it blew? Months? Days? Years?Setting by “ear” is not a good way to set the amp at all and a fast way to fry stuff. this is okay if you&#039;re bass testing, tinkering, playing around with stuff / SPL testing or whatever, but not for an install / daily driver meant to have longevity.I like Kicker, and that CVX&#039;s demise may have been install error, but I think you’d be better suited with a different sub entirely. I have zero experience with the CVX subs, but the coil might just not be up to the task of what you want it to do, I&#039;m not sure.If you were to go with the 800 amp, it would have less output overall than you do now, so are you happy with the current bass level? Would you be happy with less bass?I&#039;d go with a different sub all together, reliable 3&quot; coil 15 that can handle 1000+w of clean power, run it with that CXA1200 amp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deiimos, post: 8877269, member: 682903"] I personally prefer more power on hand, that way you can achieve rated clean power, which is much better than dirty clipped power. Setting by ear could have caused this, and sent it way above rated power but clipped = guaranteed blown sub (you might have been feeding it 1500+ watts of dirty power depending how it was set, really hard to say though). What size coil does that CVX use? How long did you have this installed before it blew? Months? Days? Years? Setting by “ear” is not a good way to set the amp at all and a fast way to fry stuff. this is okay if you're bass testing, tinkering, playing around with stuff / SPL testing or whatever, but not for an install / daily driver meant to have longevity. I like Kicker, and that CVX's demise may have been install error, but I think you’d be better suited with a different sub entirely. I have zero experience with the CVX subs, but the coil might just not be up to the task of what you want it to do, I'm not sure. If you were to go with the 800 amp, it would have less output overall than you do now, so are you happy with the current bass level? Would you be happy with less bass? I'd go with a different sub all together, reliable 3" coil 15 that can handle 1000+w of clean power, run it with that CXA1200 amp. [/QUOTE]

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