The most wattage you've thrown at a set of comps where they lived to tell the story

[eharri3 10+ year member]

I thought I was the shizzle cause Im only throwing 140 watts at my Hertz HSKs but planning 200 per side eventually but Im hearing there's people who throw 3 or 400 matts at 120 or 150 watt components and claim no problems.

I know rms ratings are meaningless and you can throw less or more and it's no big deal, and I know more is usually better. But Im just wondering:Where do we hit diminishing returns? You could bridge a 4 channel for 400 watts per side but if you tune it to deliver only 200 or whatever at peak output do we get to a point where more is not necessarily better? Or a point when no matter how much you back off on the gain you're still pushing them too hard when you crank it?

All you people throwing insane power at your comps, how much are you really giving them and how much of that power gets left on the table? How long have you been running your setup like this? Are you giving them every ounce of it? 3/4ths? ?Half??? Sometimes I wonder if I just should start throwing 500 watts to each side and go bare minimum on the gain and call it a day.

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[mbaoo]

Probably only 40-50 out of the 60 I have on tap.

What exactly is the point in giving comps that much juice?

Is it just to get loud?

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

Because the speakers never realistically see anywhere near the power levels people think they are feeding them. Try sending a 200 watt sine wave at your components and see how long they last.

 

[grassroots 10+ year member]

it's all pretty much up to where i set my cross over points... i tend to reach mechanical limits with my RS6.5s before thermal issues become a problem...

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

yeah and also because im sure alot of ppl do this:

say they set the volume at 25 and use a 0db test tone.. assuming they set it to like 250 Watts

then they never turn the HU past 25... but most msuic isnt at 0db... usually -3-6 dbs... which makes them think they are using full power... but really using 1/2 of it.. if not less

 

[eharri3 10+ year member]

I know if you feed 125 watt speakers 125 watts they're unlikely to see it. But if you're feeding them all of 300 watts would that not mean that at extremely high volumes they're more likely when pushed to approach 100 or 125 watts or more and stay there for a bit longer?

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

a lot of people on here were throwing 200rms per side on the PG RSD's and said they sounded pretty good....

 

[Echo42987 10+ year member]

I was putting around 550 to my old Boston Z6's and they LOVED it. Probably could've given them more....

 

[Customkilla23]

effieciency is all that matters, an effecient speaker will take the rated power given to them and make it sound amazing, even if you under power them. With less efficient speakers, they will take alot more power, but will sound shitter near their mechanical limits. So, why send an efficient speaker more power than they are rated at? I say just get efficient speakers.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

effieciency is all that matters, an effecient speaker will take the rated power given to them and make it sound amazing, even if you under power them. With less efficient speakers, they will take alot more power, but will sound shitter near their mechanical limits. So, why send an efficient speaker more power than they are rated at? I say just get efficient speakers.

Every single word you put in that atrocity of a sentence is wrong. Yes, even the word "a" is false when typed by you. That's how wrong you are.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

the shizzle is using less watts and getting just as loud.

there's jizzle on your fizzle.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

a lot of people on here were throwing 200rms per side on the PG RSD's and said they sounded pretty good....

a lot of people on here are retarded and doesn't even know what good sounds like if it was moaning next to their ears.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

what ever an audio Art 100 hc puts out to a set of ID cd1e horn sets with an AVI 5.25" mid/mid bass LOL

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

200rms to IDCTX mids and 18watts to minihorns

I would never throw a tone on them at 200rms tho.

 

[moo_awn 10+ year member]

I'm running a set of diamond d9's active with a kicker zx850.4, rated at 174x4@4ohms. The tweeters are 6 ohm I believe and the gain is turned down for them. Prior to that I had the d9 mids powered by a US Amps MD22 rated at 250x2@4ohm.