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<blockquote data-quote="Monologuist" data-source="post: 3077394" data-attributes="member: 577083">I simply want to know if you&#039;ve got an amp putting out an honest 700w (or the 500w for that matter)to a speaker rated at 700w rms(the speaker is 1200W max supposedly), which would be the limiting factor?&nbsp; Would the speaker begin to bottom out before the amp or vice versa if you were testing the limits of the system.&nbsp; If it is the speaker that would bottom out first, then I don&#039;t see what the point would be to use anything of higher wattage than the 700w with that 700w speaker.Bottom line is I am wondering what advantage if any I would gain by powering the 700W sub with an 1100W amp over the 700w amp. Yes the 1100w amp would have more headroom theoretically, but if the speaker would bottom out before the 700w amp would, why would you need more headroom?&nbsp; Yet, I keep hearing that one should ideally power a speaker with an amp that is rated ABOVE the speaker&#039;s RMS rating rather than right AT its rating?also, I&#039;m not as concerned about the relative audible differences in output as I am with control and articulation of demanding&nbsp; bass passages; for instance the aforementioned fast transient+sub-bass heavy electronic bass/kicks often found in minimal techno/tech-house, or, say rapid sequences of long-decay 808 kicks or analog sub-bass , as is often found in Drum &#039;n Bass.&nbsp; In terms of SPL, I listen to such music most often at around 95-105db, and occasionally higher, but never past, say 120db or so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monologuist, post: 3077394, member: 577083"] I simply want to know if you've got an amp putting out an honest 700w (or the 500w for that matter)to a speaker rated at 700w rms(the speaker is 1200W max supposedly), which would be the limiting factor? Would the speaker begin to bottom out before the amp or vice versa if you were testing the limits of the system. If it is the speaker that would bottom out first, then I don't see what the point would be to use anything of higher wattage than the 700w with that 700w speaker. Bottom line is I am wondering what advantage if any I would gain by powering the 700W sub with an 1100W amp over the 700w amp. Yes the 1100w amp would have more headroom theoretically, but if the speaker would bottom out before the 700w amp would, why would you need more headroom? Yet, I keep hearing that one should ideally power a speaker with an amp that is rated ABOVE the speaker's RMS rating rather than right AT its rating? also, I'm not as concerned about the relative audible differences in output as I am with control and articulation of demanding bass passages; for instance the aforementioned fast transient+sub-bass heavy electronic bass/kicks often found in minimal techno/tech-house, or, say rapid sequences of long-decay 808 kicks or analog sub-bass , as is often found in Drum 'n Bass. In terms of SPL, I listen to such music most often at around 95-105db, and occasionally higher, but never past, say 120db or so. [/QUOTE]

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