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[tcguy85 10+ year member]

Elaborate?? How? If the woofer states 100 watts rms, The maker is letting you know that you can feed the woofer 100 watts rms all day long with no problems, such as over heating and working the spider/surround to death.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

it seems a lot of companies are being on the safe side with their ratings so they don't have to warranty anything if the customer blows them. take for example the AQ HD3 or HDC3. they rate them at 1000 watts rms don't they? people are running 2-3k some even more on them and they don't mind it.

i know for a fact that when i have my volume up pretty high my mids alone are seeing a good 75 watts each(thats with no passive crossover or tweeter to soak up power as well), maybe a tad more at times. they are taking it just fine.

 

[grampi 10+ year member]

incorrect! that is not what headroom is. headroom is having more power than you'll ever use so you'll never stress the amp and possibly clip the signal. what you're talking about is rms vs peak power. i'd rather use a 150 watt amp to drive 75 watts into my speakers than use a 75 watt amp to drive 75 watts into my speakers and be stressing the amp and being right on the edge of clipping. thats what headroom is all about. just cause i'll have 300 watts per side on tap doesn't mean i am going to use it and that is the way i wanted it.
also.... say down the road i upgrade and i get drivers that are 6 or 8 ohm, i'll still have enough power for them as well. a lot of high end tweeters are 8 ohm, so even 50 watts will be more than enough for them. so it's also planning ahead.

end of rant.

I don't think anyone will disagree with, but pushing 75 watts from a 75 watt amp, you do realize in order to do that you'd basically have to be listening to your system at full volume all the time? I don't know about you, but I never listen to my system that loud. ever.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

I don't think anyone will disagree with, but pushing 75 watts from a 75 watt amp, you do realize in order to do that you'd basically have to be listening to your system at full volume all the time? I don't know about you, but I never listen to my system that loud. ever.

all i know is that i am pushing more than 75 watts to mine 75% of the time. if i only had a 75 watt amp i'd be in trouble.

 

[grampi 10+ year member]

all i know is that i am pushing more than 75 watts to mine 75% of the time. if i only had a 75 watt amp i'd be in trouble.

Sounds like your hearing isn't going to last much longer.

 

[BringDaBoom 10+ year member]

What's your budget. For some bad a$$ comps look into Morel, Hertz, JL C5's

 

[ivanfbi 10+ year member]

nah, I actually got the RSDs, we'll see how they will play oof 75W (conservative, the PG ZXti amps are supposedly underrated)

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

Sounds like your hearing isn't going to last much longer.

it gets pretty loud, but i don't listen to it THAT loud. not loud enough for long enough to cause hearing damage.