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<blockquote data-quote="insane bmr" data-source="post: 48729" data-attributes="member: 544040"><p>Max power only means that the sub can handle loads of up to 1000watts for short periods of time.&nbsp; If your speakers are 500 Rms than that means continuos power handling. As in you speaker s can handle 5 hundred watts consistently.&nbsp; If you hook up that amp so that it is feading all of that power at once to those subs, you are going to blow them.&nbsp; When you buy subs you have to look at more then just power handling.&nbsp; you have to look at how many voice coils it has, what the impedence is (in ohms) all kinds of other stuff as well.&nbsp; I&#039;ll bet you didn&#039;t know that when you buy a JLW3 you have to choose between 2,4,and 6 ohms.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t know they will sell you the six ohms and you will not get your moneys worth.&nbsp; Very simply defined an ohm is the unit used to measure the resistence to the passage of an electric current.&nbsp; In other words an ohm is pretty much just the word they use when they are describing the amount of electrical current you can deliver to a sub from an amp.&nbsp; Check it out, If you have a sub that can take 500rms&nbsp; at 6 ohms and you have a 500watt class D amp to push the sub you only acutally have about half of that power delivered to the subs because of the impedence.&nbsp; So you end up wasting 250 watts of power. And that is just throwing away money.&nbsp; Now if you have a sub that can take 500rms at 1 ohm and you have an amp that is rated at 500 watts then you will be able to use all 500 watts to power your sub. And that means louder bass.&nbsp; Remember the less ohms, the more actual power from your amp.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="insane bmr, post: 48729, member: 544040"] Max power only means that the sub can handle loads of up to 1000watts for short periods of time. If your speakers are 500 Rms than that means continuos power handling. As in you speaker s can handle 5 hundred watts consistently. If you hook up that amp so that it is feading all of that power at once to those subs, you are going to blow them. When you buy subs you have to look at more then just power handling. you have to look at how many voice coils it has, what the impedence is (in ohms) all kinds of other stuff as well. I'll bet you didn't know that when you buy a JLW3 you have to choose between 2,4,and 6 ohms. If you don't know they will sell you the six ohms and you will not get your moneys worth. Very simply defined an ohm is the unit used to measure the resistence to the passage of an electric current. In other words an ohm is pretty much just the word they use when they are describing the amount of electrical current you can deliver to a sub from an amp. Check it out, If you have a sub that can take 500rms at 6 ohms and you have a 500watt class D amp to push the sub you only acutally have about half of that power delivered to the subs because of the impedence. So you end up wasting 250 watts of power. And that is just throwing away money. Now if you have a sub that can take 500rms at 1 ohm and you have an amp that is rated at 500 watts then you will be able to use all 500 watts to power your sub. And that means louder bass. Remember the less ohms, the more actual power from your amp.[IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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