Newb Question:Power handling

[1ndatrunk 10+ year member]

If you had two sub and one was 1000 rms, and the other 2000rms, what would make one louder than the other? If both subs were optimized to play hard at their given rms values, why would the 2000watt one be louder than the 1000watt sub?

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[TeamMAXXSONICS 10+ year member]

Why would you run 2 subs with differnt power handlings?

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

no.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

If you had two sub and one was 1000 rms, and the other 2000rms, what would make one louder than the other? If both subs were optimized to play hard at their given rms values, why would the 2000watt one be louder than the 1000watt sub?

You are completely ignoring speaker and enclosure efficiency.
Wattage is only a measure of input power. The ultimate goal to making SPL is displacing air. This happens from cone excursion, and eclosure efficiency.

The situation is much more complicated than you seem to realize.

 

[1ndatrunk 10+ year member]

I know that its more complicated than that, and thats exactly what I want to know. Will the one made for 1000watts not have the excursion as the one made for 2000watts? I'm trying to get a custom sub made, so that is why I'm asking this

 

[kush-divinity 10+ year member]

You dont need 18billion watts to make a sub loud. Anything that an hold 1000 is plenty. Use the right box, or go home.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

I know that its more complicated than that, and thats exactly what I want to know. Will the one made for 1000watts not have the excursion as the one made for 2000watts? I'm trying to get a custom sub made, so that is why I'm asking this

Excursion and thermal power handling are not necessarily dependant on each other. Nor is excursion the tell-tale sign of a sub's ability to displace air. In a sealed application, yes xmax is crucial. In a ported app, thermal power handling and several other factors become more important. Tuning, enclosure alignment, enclosure size and material played can also play a role in excursion.

 

[spencer321 10+ year member]

You are completely ignoring speaker and enclosure efficiency.
Wattage is only a measure of input power. The ultimate goal to making SPL is displacing air. This happens from cone excursion, and eclosure efficiency.

The situation is much more complicated than you seem to realize.

very very true, and no matter how much you read about loud speaker parameters and efficiency and box calculators and this forum, you can read untill you THINK your an expert but even still comparing too subs that are remotely similiar and asking which is louder will always be a guess you can make an educated guess but its still a guess

 

[kush-divinity 10+ year member]

Best to simply put your 2k amp on 16 Funky Pups. Or go home.