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Message: <blockquote data-quote="7ender" data-source="post: 6514215" data-attributes="member: 584862">No, not necessarily.  Sounds like you don't really understand how the gain works.  If you are good at setting by ear though, you may be fine.The power handling of the sub doens't really matter much in terms of the gain level.  Once you set the gain too high and introduce clipping, you are hurting your sub regardless of how much power you're sending it.And the point of having a gain is so that you can make your amp put out its rated power with altering input voltages (ie, not every head unit has the same preout voltage).  If you try to make it do more than that, you're more than likely clipping.Why not just buy a DMM and set it that way?  It's not the most accurate, but more so than you're doing now.</blockquote>

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