LosIsATool
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Your recommendation was fine.Okay well that makes sense. I've run subs for kicks on half the recommended continuous power to the same result you speak of (minimal excursion). I was simply trying to give a recommendation based on the assumption that the thread creator had not purchased an amplifier yet and was really looking to get full potential from his sub drivers.
RMS is a power limit over a long period of time. Constant without breaks. It's by no means how much power you should use because we don't abuse them anywhere close to that. Take into account a 1200 is never producing 1200 watts also.