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<blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 8264261" data-attributes="member: 560148">Literally ANY amp you can think of can power horns.. Those horns are 110db/1w/1m, give or take a few db&#039;s either way.. Most car audio speakers clock in at 89db/1w/1m.&nbsp; That literally means the horns with 1 watt of power is as loud as most mids with 128 watts going to it, BEFORE you can factor in power compression.&nbsp; Once you put compression into the mix, most car audio speakers cannot get as loud as horns on 1 watt of power, without at least 150-175 watts to the speaker, nearing many of the speakers RMS, or above it even!&nbsp; The horns will never see more than 5 watts of power unless you want them way louder than every other speaker, period.Your going to want the gain on the horn amp all the way down, then turn the gain on the mids amp all the way up until the 2 begin to blend properly in SPL.&nbsp; You may be suprised how far the gain knob will have to go on the mids to do that..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="T3mpest, post: 8264261, member: 560148"] Literally ANY amp you can think of can power horns.. Those horns are 110db/1w/1m, give or take a few db's either way.. Most car audio speakers clock in at 89db/1w/1m. That literally means the horns with 1 watt of power is as loud as most mids with 128 watts going to it, BEFORE you can factor in power compression. Once you put compression into the mix, most car audio speakers cannot get as loud as horns on 1 watt of power, without at least 150-175 watts to the speaker, nearing many of the speakers RMS, or above it even! The horns will never see more than 5 watts of power unless you want them way louder than every other speaker, period. Your going to want the gain on the horn amp all the way down, then turn the gain on the mids amp all the way up until the 2 begin to blend properly in SPL. You may be suprised how far the gain knob will have to go on the mids to do that.. [/QUOTE]

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