watt question

[snocone2001 10+ year member]

The Hifonics Brutis amp is rated 1500@1Ohm 1000@2Ohm and 500@4Ohm. My subs are rated at 800 RMS and 1600 max combined between them. They are DVC 4 ohm. So my question is if I got that amp could I put the amp at 1 ohm then somehow turn down the watts going to the subs or would I have to get a smaller amp. Thanks

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[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

you'd have to put the gain way way way down, it might still be too much power, i'd suggest not sending that much extra power to them

 

[tobz 10+ year member]

LOL... just keep your gains down and use your volume control wisely and you'll be fine. You'll probably find that having a lot of extra power available on your amp will allow you to run your amp cooler, more stable, and have better sound quality, because you are not driving the amp into clipping, and you don't need to have the gains so high up that you pick up unnecessary noise.

T.J.

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

but with 700w? i mean 200ish is good to have extra but 700? that could really have the possibilty of blowing the subs

 

[tobz 10+ year member]

Blowing subs happens more often by giving them clipped power, often times within their recommended thermal range of power handling. He isn't actually over-powering the subs unless he turns his amp way up, and is really foolish with the volume knob.

Unless he is going to blow them on purpose, it's pretty easy to tell when you're feeding your subs too much power. His subs will like the unclipped power much more than running a ~800w amp at full power trying to **** every last watt out of it, because it will be very easy to drive the amp into clipping at that time. Once he drives the amp into clipping, those voice coils will get too hot and melt, resulting in a "blown" sub.

T.J.

p.s. Didn't mean to LOL ya //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I am working a 16 hour shift right now, don't take it personal... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif