Calculations for setting gains with dmm

[aeronautica86 10+ year member]

I've got a PG x600.1 with a birthsheet that says 618 watts, but from what I hear, these amps are all rather underrated and those that were originally tested to be barely over 600w should actually be considerably higher. Since I don't know the exact wattage of the amp, should I use 600w, 618w or some higher number that most of these amps seems to put out?

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[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

I've got a PG x600.1 with a birthsheet that says 618 watts, but from what I hear, these amps are all rather underrated and those that were originally tested to be barely over 600w should actually be considerably higher. Since I don't know the exact wattage of the amp, should I use 600w, 618w or some higher number that most of these amps seems to put out?

600

 

[Spud2388 10+ year member]

600. Your probably not going to hear much, if any, difference between 600w and 618w.

 

[aeronautica86 10+ year member]

well, I really wasn't concerned with the difference between 600 and 618, but I figured if this amp produces 750+ w, then the difference between 600 and 750 or more would be significant

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

if you set it lower your amp will love you more... don't you want to be loved?

 

[aeronautica86 10+ year member]

well....when you put it that way //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/hilarious.gif.02a037aad04aa96f19982b298a3d70a8.gif

I figured when I got this amp/subs that I'd end up setting the gain somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2, but set when here there is very little output from the subs, so I'm going to try to set the gains correctly to see if there is a problem. I personally don't like ridiculous, hear-it-from-blocks-away bass, but I figured with a pair of these subs (rl-i8s) and 300 w to each that type of output would be possible, and although that's not exactly what I like, I figure the fact that it can't means that something might be wrong