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<blockquote data-quote="BnGRacing" data-source="post: 7564874" data-attributes="member: 557400">Don&#039;t be surprised when &#039;internet car audio experts&#039; disregard what you&#039;re asking and make a sales pitch for high margin accessories. You see it in many speaker threads and you saw it in your &quot;Big 3&quot; thread.The truth of the matter is RMS ratings on speakers are worthless. Why is that? Well, how do the manufacturers come up with that number? Is it per speaker or pair? Are they testing using pink noise or music? How long is the test? Is the RMS a thermal rating or mechanical rating? Truth is, no one really knows as the speaker manufacturers all use differing methods ranging from torture testing their products to drawing marketing friendly numbers out of a hat. Since everyone rates their stuff differently any comparisons between 1 manufacturer&#039;s RMS number &amp;amp; another will be useless.To complicate matters even more, many people think a 100w speaker will sound better or be louder than a 50w speaker. That couldn&#039;t be further from the truth. To &#039;get loud&#039; requires you to move more air. That means using speakers that have a higher excursion, a higher efficiency, or installing more speakers. Most component sets will reach their mechanical limitations withUnfortunately, there is no specification out there that will tell you how good a speaker will sound to your ears regardless of what marketing departments and vendors on internet forums tell you. The best way to figure out how to start to sound better is to use your own ears. Visit a high-end home audio store and get a nice demo of a well set up home threatre system; that way you have some reference to what music is supposed to sound like. From there, it&#039;s a lot of trial &amp;amp; error as well as going to shops &amp;amp; competitions to hear new equipment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BnGRacing, post: 7564874, member: 557400"] Don't be surprised when 'internet car audio experts' disregard what you're asking and make a sales pitch for high margin accessories. You see it in many speaker threads and you saw it in your "Big 3" thread. The truth of the matter is RMS ratings on speakers are worthless. Why is that? Well, how do the manufacturers come up with that number? Is it per speaker or pair? Are they testing using pink noise or music? How long is the test? Is the RMS a thermal rating or mechanical rating? Truth is, no one really knows as the speaker manufacturers all use differing methods ranging from torture testing their products to drawing marketing friendly numbers out of a hat. Since everyone rates their stuff differently any comparisons between 1 manufacturer's RMS number & another will be useless. To complicate matters even more, many people think a 100w speaker will sound better or be louder than a 50w speaker. That couldn't be further from the truth. To 'get loud' requires you to move more air. That means using speakers that have a higher excursion, a higher efficiency, or installing more speakers. Most component sets will reach their mechanical limitations with Unfortunately, there is no specification out there that will tell you how good a speaker will sound to your ears regardless of what marketing departments and vendors on internet forums tell you. The best way to figure out how to start to sound better is to use your own ears. Visit a high-end home audio store and get a nice demo of a well set up home threatre system; that way you have some reference to what music is supposed to sound like. From there, it's a lot of trial & error as well as going to shops & competitions to hear new equipment. [/QUOTE]

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