Underpowering

[taylor 10+ year member]

Actually i was told by the car audio manager at my shop that if you horribly under power a sub, example 1500 watt peak sub with a 250watt amplifier, the sub will just vibrate more than pound and excessive friction on the vc could cause it to melt. Zane i'm definetly not trying to contradict your knowledge, that is just what i have heard.

 

[zane 10+ year member]

Originally posted by taylor Actually i was told by the car audio manager at my shop that if you horribly under power a sub, example 1500 watt peak sub with a 250watt amplifier, the sub will just vibrate more than pound and excessive friction on the vc could cause it to melt. Zane i'm definetly not trying to contradict your knowledge, that is just what i have heard.

Understandable...... this issue is one of the biggest lines of BS in car audio today. I would have loved to show this shop manager my old Perfect 12.1's (350w RMS, 1400 W Peak) enjoying 50 watts each of of an old Rockford Amp I had. I ran those subs that way for near a month(with heavy use) before I recieved my new amplifier- not one bit of problem. This shop manager is just guilty of common mis-information- which again- is understandable. Mabey pass a copy of this thread to him so he can learn a little more about this issue. There were a few excellent reference links posted previously in this thread, and they would be quite useful to him also.

take it easy,

-zane

 

[taylor 10+ year member]

Thanks for the info zane.