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<blockquote data-quote="Betrayer00GT" data-source="post: 4148518" data-attributes="member: 582890">Well, when a manufacturer provides a&nbsp; &quot;Peak&quot; or &quot;Max&quot; wattage rating, those are BS numbers. You need to see something tagged with &quot;RMS&quot; or &quot;CEA Rated Power&quot;, then those are the more realistic numbers. Plus, your 100w/10amps rule of thumb only works on A/B class amps, not really on the &amp;gt;80% efficient &quot;D&quot; amps.My CA800 (600w RMS rating) came from Profile with 3X 25amp fuses. The CA200 amps (180w RMS rating) each came with a 20amp fuse, which is really close to your &quot;100w/10amps&quot; formula. Actually, I just checked, and the manual I got with my CA800 specifies 3X 20amp fuses, which is dead-on. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gifI think the most important point is that we all should completely ignore any power ratings that are not prefaced or followed by an &quot;RMS&quot; or &quot;CEA rated&quot; statement. If it doesn&#039;t have either of those, then it&#039;s just noise.Yeah, I haven&#039;t heard one of the Clarus series, specifically. It seems that the Clarus series is supposed to be &quot;up-level&quot; from the California series, and everything I have ever heard about any California series amp (well, from OWNERS of them) has been really good. If you wanted to, you could check the ratings/feedback on the current Profile California series amps on Crutchfield&#039;s site:<a href="http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Group/ProductMenu.aspx?g=120&amp;amp;tp=115&amp;amp;nvpair=FFBrand%7cProfile" target="_blank">http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Group/ProductMenu.aspx?g=120&amp;amp;tp=115&amp;amp;nvpair=FFBrand%7cProfile</a>The number of reviews and the average rating is listed at the bottom of each model&#039;s entry on that page. Take a look at the numbers for the &quot;AP&quot; line. Like I said, the feedback on Profile&#039;s CA-series from OWNERS, is very good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Betrayer00GT, post: 4148518, member: 582890"] Well, when a manufacturer provides a "Peak" or "Max" wattage rating, those are BS numbers. You need to see something tagged with "RMS" or "CEA Rated Power", then those are the more realistic numbers. Plus, your 100w/10amps rule of thumb only works on A/B class amps, not really on the >80% efficient "D" amps. My CA800 (600w RMS rating) came from Profile with 3X 25amp fuses. The CA200 amps (180w RMS rating) each came with a 20amp fuse, which is really close to your "100w/10amps" formula. Actually, I just checked, and the manual I got with my CA800 specifies 3X 20amp fuses, which is dead-on. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] I think the most important point is that we all should completely ignore any power ratings that are not prefaced or followed by an "RMS" or "CEA rated" statement. If it doesn't have either of those, then it's just noise. Yeah, I haven't heard one of the Clarus series, specifically. It seems that the Clarus series is supposed to be "up-level" from the California series, and everything I have ever heard about any California series amp (well, from OWNERS of them) has been really good. If you wanted to, you could check the ratings/feedback on the current Profile California series amps on Crutchfield's site: [URL="http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Group/ProductMenu.aspx?g=120&tp=115&nvpair=FFBrand%7cProfile"]http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Group/ProductMenu.aspx?g=120&tp=115&nvpair=FFBrand%7cProfile[/URL] The number of reviews and the average rating is listed at the bottom of each model's entry on that page. Take a look at the numbers for the "AP" line. Like I said, the feedback on Profile's CA-series from OWNERS, is very good. [/QUOTE]

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