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<blockquote data-quote="whitedragon551" data-source="post: 7182694" data-attributes="member: 608181">Sometimes you can hear clipping, some times you cant. You can use the DMM method which reduces your chances of clipping, but its not 100% as nobody knows all the points where every amp starts sending a clipped signal. Heres a tutorial on that:<a href="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/3704-how-to-set-your-amplifier-gain/" target="_blank">How To: Set your Amplifier Gain - SSA Car Audio Forum</a>And again depends on the speakers. Some can take more than rated, some cant, all depends on the quality of the equipment and the install. There is a way to tune your amp with the DMM method so you can put rated power to the speakers. For example lets say you have an amp that does a true 75wrms per channel, 4 channels, and your going to run all 4 speakers on their own channel. The speakers are rated at 50wrms per speaker. When doing the math just substitute the speaker rms rather than the amps rms power.Examples amp rmsSpeaker rmsI mentioned earlier in the thread. Headroom:<a href="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/33898-amplifier-headroom/" target="_blank">Amplifier Headroom - SSA Car Audio Forum</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="whitedragon551, post: 7182694, member: 608181"] Sometimes you can hear clipping, some times you cant. You can use the DMM method which reduces your chances of clipping, but its not 100% as nobody knows all the points where every amp starts sending a clipped signal. Heres a tutorial on that: [URL="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/3704-how-to-set-your-amplifier-gain/"]How To: Set your Amplifier Gain - SSA Car Audio Forum[/URL] And again depends on the speakers. Some can take more than rated, some cant, all depends on the quality of the equipment and the install. There is a way to tune your amp with the DMM method so you can put rated power to the speakers. For example lets say you have an amp that does a true 75wrms per channel, 4 channels, and your going to run all 4 speakers on their own channel. The speakers are rated at 50wrms per speaker. When doing the math just substitute the speaker rms rather than the amps rms power. Examples amp rms Speaker rms I mentioned earlier in the thread. Headroom: [URL="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/33898-amplifier-headroom/"]Amplifier Headroom - SSA Car Audio Forum[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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