How many watts to each speaker if using 8 ohms in parallel?

[momofx 10+ year member]

Sort of having a brain fart here - my midbass amp puts out 150w rms into 4 ohms and 300w rms into 2 ohms per channel and I have two 8 ohm midbass speakers in parallel so the total ohm load is 4 ohms. Now my big question is, does this mean that the amp will put out a TOTAL of 150w rms and therefore 75w rms to EACH midbass since they are 8 ohms each?

Someone told me that it would put out 150w rms to EACH 8 ohm midbass and that does not make sense to me cos then that would be a total of 300w at 4 ohms as the amp would see it...

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[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

150 total, so 75per mid...

 

[momofx 10+ year member]

Ok thanks man - thats what I was thinking too but my electrical buddy thought otherwise lol. Makes perfect sense though!

 

[momax_powers 10+ year member]

Ok thanks man - thats what I was thinking too but my electrical buddy thought otherwise lol. Makes perfect sense though!

hes probably thinking of voltage......voltage stays the same through all loads in a parallel circuit