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<blockquote data-quote="UsAmpsFreak" data-source="post: 8454493" data-attributes="member: 658137">Yea no problem dude. I worked in a retail shop/install bay for many years and dealing with getting &quot;real&quot; ratings on just about everything was tough. Most speakers can handle quite a bit more than the manufacturer will suggest. That&#039;s mainly because they know that 95% of their customers are not really trained to know what the limits of their equipment is. Most people on here probably have 1000% more knowledge about car audio and how to not blow up their stuff than the average customer which is why they give their ratings that are more of along the lines of &quot;ratings for dummies&quot;. I did the system you can see in my sig which was 4 Re Audio SR 15&#039;s and had over 4000 watts on them. It was a daily driver, did 156 in the kick and i never damaged a woofer and had the system for about 2 years.I am NOT at all saying that you can&#039;t damage speakers from having too much power on them, of course you can. I&#039;m just saying that in most cases, don&#039;t read so much into their ratings unless you are running an enormous amp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UsAmpsFreak, post: 8454493, member: 658137"] Yea no problem dude. I worked in a retail shop/install bay for many years and dealing with getting "real" ratings on just about everything was tough. Most speakers can handle quite a bit more than the manufacturer will suggest. That's mainly because they know that 95% of their customers are not really trained to know what the limits of their equipment is. Most people on here probably have 1000% more knowledge about car audio and how to not blow up their stuff than the average customer which is why they give their ratings that are more of along the lines of "ratings for dummies". I did the system you can see in my sig which was 4 Re Audio SR 15's and had over 4000 watts on them. It was a daily driver, did 156 in the kick and i never damaged a woofer and had the system for about 2 years. I am NOT at all saying that you can't damage speakers from having too much power on them, of course you can. I'm just saying that in most cases, don't read so much into their ratings unless you are running an enormous amp. [/QUOTE]

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