Hertz Mlk165 - Power?

[Bumpin'Buick 10+ year member]

I just bought a set of Hertz Mlk165 comps and am wondering how much power ppl feed to these components.

I have an Audison Srx2s that puts out 180x2. Will that be sufficient?

Can the speakers take a lot more?

Thanks for the help.

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[night_mirage 10+ year member]

It can, But Clean power..

Great COMP BTW

 

[Bumpin'Buick 10+ year member]

I know it can easily hand 180w, but I wondering how much ppl put to them on the higher end.

I wanna put around 260 to them with another audison.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

if they are efficient i don't think they will need 260 per side. what is their efficiency?

 

[denali804 10+ year member]

I have a 75watt x 4 diamond audio amp on my mlk's and they are not even moving. I also replaced my hex s600 with the mlk's. I'm looking for a more powerful 4 channel at this point.

 

[Bumpin'Buick 10+ year member]

They're rated at 92db

denali804 - how great of a difference was the change of speakers?

 

[Ptown_TSxxx 10+ year member]

92db is a great sensitivity, you shouldn't need to throw all of rated power to the speaks. I just installed my Mach5 mli's and they are rated for 100w rms and I am olnly throwing around 60w per side and they sound great.

 

[felixlau]

bradder,

IMHO, the MLK series speakers are very good. SRX will not bring out the full potential of it. at least the LRX or VRX series will do more justice to yr investments.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

cheers..

 

[Ptown_TSxxx 10+ year member]

I forgot to add that I am a fan of headroom though.

 

[mr burns]

I'm also running the MLK165's. When I bought them, I asked the same question, and was told that the Hertz sales rep, who called on them said he was running 300watts per side to his MLK's and noticed a big increase in midbass. I think I'm going to bridge my PDX 4.150, buy a two channel for the tweets ( I'm running active) and see what happens. I'm running 150 watts to the tweeters now with no problems.

 

[Bumpin'Buick 10+ year member]

I was thinking of maybe getting an arc audio FD4150 and bridging it to give them 320 a side.

I knew they could handle a good deal of power, just wasn't sure how much really.

 

[night_mirage 10+ year member]

U don't have to do this much power to feed this comp..

i don't know why most of ppl always thinking about increasing the Watts.

Just give them a clean 150-200w AND You will be satisfied..

 

[denali804 10+ year member]

bumpin, I like the mlk's alot but as of right now they are not sounding any better than my hex's did. I don't want to jump the gun on saying this because i think i might be severly(sp) under powering the mlk's. I just expected a major increase in mid-bass over the Hex's and have not yet found it.(once again i think i have power issues) I do like the tweeters better than the hex tweeters, I've always thought that the hex tweeters were a little harsh to my liking. (silks and alum.)

 

[Bumpin'Buick 10+ year member]

Well, I'm hoping they'll sound better than the diamonds, running 180x2 to them.

I'll probably end up putting around 300-320 to them later on though when I get a new amp.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

seems like an aweful lot of power. i have 150 watts going to my current comps. why do you guys think you need that much power?