How to get more volume?

[99StangGt 10+ year member]

I just set my gains the way Jl audio said. I set them with a volt meter and they are accurate. any louder and the front speakers pop. right now im running a pioneer 860mp deck, eclipse 3422 amp bridged to 2 channels they say should be 140w per side. front seperates are ID csx64s. the sub is a IDQ12 and the sub amp is eclipse 33230 running mono at 400w. the sub is loud enough. but the total sound seems lower then i think it should be, just wanting a little more. I have 2 ARC 2050s coming and i was going to bridge them and run a amp to each seperate. will the arcs go louder then the eclipse amp? or is there something else i should do.

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[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

the arc's bridged put out 230 bridged i believe.. so yes you should notice a difference.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Well, if you are currently running 140w per side, and that is enough to make the speakers pop, I honestly don't know why you would buy more powerful amps, when you won't be able to actually apply anymore power to the speaker anyways. If they are able to pop with a 140w amp, then a 230w amp isn't going to make them be able to handle anymore power....you'll just have to adjust the gain down more, still sending the comps roughtly the same amount of power they are getting now.