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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7565164" data-attributes="member: 629735"><p>I have modeled the Hybrid Audio Imagine woofer with WinISD. The goal was to see how match wattage it can take (with a 70Hz crossover) before the woofer excursion exceeds the speaker&#039;s one xmax of 6mm (by the way.. that&#039;s quite an impressive xmax for a small speaker). Normally speakers have excursion limit above xmax, but xmax is supposedly the range where SQ is very good, distortion is low, etc. The result is that 80watts of power is enough. However, since amplifiers are rated at voltage normally not seen in a car, I would say amplifier rated for 100 to 120watts RMS would be prefect for powering the HAT Imagine woofers. Someone posted that Imagine woofers can take even more wattage without doing anything funny. Note than this sort of wattage could be used only if you bi-amp or run them active, because tweeters probably will not handle so much power. Probably they do not need to either.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="zako, post: 7565164, member: 629735"] I have modeled the Hybrid Audio Imagine woofer with WinISD. The goal was to see how match wattage it can take (with a 70Hz crossover) before the woofer excursion exceeds the speaker's one xmax of 6mm (by the way.. that's quite an impressive xmax for a small speaker). Normally speakers have excursion limit above xmax, but xmax is supposedly the range where SQ is very good, distortion is low, etc. The result is that 80watts of power is enough. However, since amplifiers are rated at voltage normally not seen in a car, I would say amplifier rated for 100 to 120watts RMS would be prefect for powering the HAT Imagine woofers. Someone posted that Imagine woofers can take even more wattage without doing anything funny. Note than this sort of wattage could be used only if you bi-amp or run them active, because tweeters probably will not handle so much power. Probably they do not need to either. [/QUOTE]

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