too much power?

[Decipha 10+ year member]

IMO you can never have too much power... just impossible in my life

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

no probs

my 65rms comps see double that daily

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

All 3 drivers in my 3 way setup see more than twice their rated power handling and I've had NO problems.

 

[airtas 10+ year member]

so how can u blow speakers then?

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

so how can u blow speakers then?

Keep in mind there is a difference between actually overpowering, and simply having a larger than recommended amp on them. A 200w amp will not put out 200w constantly; it's highly dependent upon volume level, how the gain is set, type of music, recording level of the music, etc etc. So, just because someone has a 200w amp (for example) on their speakers, it doesn't mean their speakers are ever actually seeing the full 200w, atleast for anything longer than .1 seconds.

Then you have to issue of how the speaker's power handling was actually rated. Whether it's conservative, if it's the thermal limit or just the suggested power, etc etc.

 

[airtas 10+ year member]

so how can u blow speakers then?

i understand that but how can you blow them?

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

i understand that but how can you blow them?

Three ways to blow a speaker:

1) Thermal failure; you exceed the thermal power handling limits of the driver.

2) Mechanical failure; You exceed the mechanical limits of the driver, which causes physical damage (such as bottoming out the driver, ripping the spider, ripping a tinsel lead, etc etc)

3) Physical damage/manufacturer defect; things like misaligned coils, dropping the speaker, etc etc.

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

i was giving my factory 4x6's 250 watts a piece and it liked it just fine

even tho from 25-35 didn't sound like any difference... just my .02

 

[airtas 10+ year member]

so if the amp is blasting 111 rms per channel and the speakers RMS is 2-70 that is ok???

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

If it's not, just turn the gain down a little more and the amplifier won't be blasting 111w, so it won't matter.

But there's way too many variables to say "yes that speaker will handle 111w."