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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8218014" data-attributes="member: 655960">Based on my experience with Kenwood amps, they&#039;re underperformers and are over rated with respect to real power output. I haven&#039;t used all Kenwood amps though so take that for what it&#039;s worth. My recommendation to anyone who is researching audio gear is to do that research where the pros and experts hang out, not on mainstream websites that sell mainstream gear to the masses. Not that those are bad places but... they&#039;re in the business of moving product, not recommending quality.This forum is a good example of what I&#039;m talking about. Most of the active users here (whether vendors or not) have experience with mainstream and high quality gear and their recommendations will reflect that.Sound processors are not LOCs but some do have LOCs built into them because they&#039;re designed for exactly what you&#039;re doing... installing aftermarket amps and speakers to factory gear. So a lot of processors have speaker level inputs that convert that signal to line level so it can be processed and sent to your amps. LOCs only do the former and all too often, they do a poor job of it. That said, you can get a decent LOC for around $25.00 while a decent processor with high level inputs will be ten times that price or more. But in my opinion, they&#039;re worth every penny.And yes, you can run speakers with less than rated power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8218014, member: 655960"] Based on my experience with Kenwood amps, they're underperformers and are over rated with respect to real power output. I haven't used all Kenwood amps though so take that for what it's worth. My recommendation to anyone who is researching audio gear is to do that research where the pros and experts hang out, not on mainstream websites that sell mainstream gear to the masses. Not that those are bad places but... they're in the business of moving product, not recommending quality. This forum is a good example of what I'm talking about. Most of the active users here (whether vendors or not) have experience with mainstream and high quality gear and their recommendations will reflect that. Sound processors are not LOCs but some do have LOCs built into them because they're designed for exactly what you're doing... installing aftermarket amps and speakers to factory gear. So a lot of processors have speaker level inputs that convert that signal to line level so it can be processed and sent to your amps. LOCs only do the former and all too often, they do a poor job of it. That said, you can get a decent LOC for around $25.00 while a decent processor with high level inputs will be ten times that price or more. But in my opinion, they're worth every penny. And yes, you can run speakers with less than rated power. [/QUOTE]

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