Best anp for kappas

[rfluvinmf 10+ year member]

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[Dgriffith29]

Just because you have 145 watts doesnt mean you have to use all of it. Gain and head unit settings controls how much power the speakers sees.
An amp barely lifting a finger will keep cooler, last longer and provide cleaner power to your speakers which yields much sound quality. Overhead with common sense is always the goal for best longevity and performance.

Vs a weak amp working 120% of the times stressing out heating up and providing dirty power with high distortion from Being overdriven.

Makes since when put like that! So would setting the gain be the same. And please don't lash me if I'm wrong lol but correct me by all means. But set gain all the way down turn radio up till distortion then turn down just a touch then go over to the gain and slowly turn up till distortion is heard n back it off just a touch.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Makes since when put like that! So would setting the gain be the same. And please don't lash me if I'm wrong lol but correct me by all means. But set gain all the way down turn radio up till distortion then turn down just a touch then go over to the gain and slowly turn up till distortion is heard n back it off just a touch.

well with amps with high power, you wont get distortion if you set your high pass filters right. Weak amps will have distortion at higher volumes, prime example is head unit power. You crank it up, you get distortion all because of the head unit amp not having anywhere near enough power. You wont get the problem with a powerful amp.

Which is why you have to be careful with higher power, very hard for beginners to hear when the speakers are stressed. However unless you are half deaf, i dont think you'll reach that point in output where you are using the full potential of the amp with daily listening.

 

[Dgriffith29]

Well over the years I've installed a few of my own amps but always just a sub amp I've never installed components the front set came with 2 crossovers and honestly I'm clueless on how to mess with any crossover stuff, at some point I'll install my 10" sub but for now I just want my door speakers sounding good they sound terrible on the head unit lol

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

This is a few days old now -- but another thing about power...

(Good quality) Speakers are rated for continuous power indefinitely. Basically, if you feed them a sine wave at specified power they should last forever (or until they rot away). And they can handle short term bursts of power 2 or 3x that high.

Amplifier rms power ratings are measured using sine wave power output as well. But music is no where near as powerful as a sine wave.

So an amp that is rated for 100w rms is only going to be producing 30 or 40w on average when it's playing music at FULL volume. Then assuming you listen at less than full volume most of the time it's likely they're only getting ~20w most of the time.

So you can see why having ample power on tap is not a threat to your speakers.

An old engineer (and all around super smart dude) on the carsound forums years ago always used to say you can never have too much power.

He used to tell a story about testing speakers with a commercial amplifier they wheeled around in their lab on a cart that was capable of 10kw per channel (or something like that). They ran it on everything, even little 50w coaxials. They only time they blew speakers was during max power tests.