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<blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 6106558" data-attributes="member: 573988">An equalizer is not meant to Beef your system up in a specific frequency band.Its made to &quot;equalize&quot; your system, making it so that your frequency response is as flat as possible.Setting your gains flat with a test tone gives you the maximum parameters you should operate the amp at.If you are leaving your amp operating at that level you are endangering it anyway under daily use conditions.Amps aren&#039;t just boxes that either work or do not. They are a pieces of electronic equiptment which have a life based on the % they are ulitized.You should be using the DMM method for setting gains to find the maximum gain setting you can use on an amp and mark it &quot;MAX GAIN.&quot;After this tune it down by ear or whatever sophisticated equiptment you choose untill it stages relatively well with the rest of your system. Equalizers should be used to &quot;trim&quot; or fine tune your amps output, not to &quot;BOOST&quot; or heavily adjust output.A good rule of thumb is: &quot;if you have to use more than half of an equalizer band&#039;s capability, you have ****ed up something in your installation and are now compromising your electronics to achieve sound quality.&quot; which is both incorrect and unnecessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cotjones, post: 6106558, member: 573988"] An equalizer is not meant to Beef your system up in a specific frequency band. Its made to "equalize" your system, making it so that your frequency response is as flat as possible. Setting your gains flat with a test tone gives you the[SIZE=14px] maximum[/SIZE] parameters you should operate the amp at. If you are leaving your amp operating at that level you are endangering it anyway under daily use conditions. Amps aren't just boxes that either work or do not. They are a pieces of electronic equiptment which have a life based on the % they are ulitized. You should be using the DMM method for setting gains to find the maximum gain setting you can use on an amp and mark it "MAX GAIN." After this tune it down by ear or whatever sophisticated equiptment you choose untill it stages relatively well with the rest of your system. Equalizers should be used to "trim" or fine tune your amps output, not to "BOOST" or heavily adjust output. A good rule of thumb is: "if you have to use more than half of an equalizer band's capability, you have ****ed up something in your installation and are now compromising your electronics to achieve sound quality." which is both incorrect and unnecessary. [/QUOTE]

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