Sub powering question

[KnOkIn It 420 10+ year member]

Lets say that a speaker rms at 1000watts peaks at 3500,When u feed 2000 watts to it does it get any distortion and get sloppy when sending that much power to it? Ported.

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[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

What speaker are you talking about?

 

[KnOkIn It 420 10+ year member]

It's just a general question,

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Actually sending twice as much power to a speaker than it can handle will generally result in the driver failing....depending on several factors such as how long you are playing it, box specs, etc etc.

Now, there is a difference between actually powering the subwoofer with 2000w, and simply "having a 2000w amplifier". Just because the amplifier is a 2000w amplifier, doesn't mean you are actually sending that much power to the subwoofer.

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

drivers react differently to different things... i bet MT's will react a lot better to 5000 rms than a cheap 500rms sub getting 600...

like squeak said, subs don't receive the power you are supposedly feeding it, all the same... i bet most subs don't require 3/4's of the power available to it to produce a bass frequency in most songs...