overpowered components

[s2groove 10+ year member]

who has a setup like me where they have more power to their components than what the manufacturer says they can handle? i got some dynaudio's that have 150 watts goin to each that the manufacturer says can only handle 100. My car sounds great now but would i have to worry about reliability anytime soon? who has their components like this and for how long w/o problems?

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[Aurorav8 10+ year member]

As long as you keep the gains down on the amp you shouldn't have to worry about it. BUT, 50 watts over seems like quite a bit. I guess it would depend on the amp and weather it's underrated, and by how much.

 

[slick316 10+ year member]

hah, i got 300watts going to EACH side of my HEX components, so far, i dont think there is a problem, but i have my gains down really low. just be careful with the gains the volume knob.

 

[burtonsnow83 10+ year member]

one thing you have to worry about is voiding the warranty on them, most companies won't honor a warranty if their products are played over the rms.

 

[Tedro]

so far with what i have run into is that the tweeter blows faster or just blows.. I used to have a set of components that i overpowered and I lost a couple of tweeters and most of the time when i turned it up and they started to sound good the tweeter would cut out, overheat, you know that tweeter protect feture on components, untill i truned it down and they would come back on and all would be fine. I would want them to be over powered than they be under powered any day.