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<blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 8319442" data-attributes="member: 560148">Link to that thread?&nbsp; There was a long Caco thread where someone brought it up, but the techs said it wouldn&#039;t happen and nobody linked to specific to it really happeneing, at least with taramps.&nbsp; Someone claimed it happened with a banda or some other brazilian amp company, never saw any proof tho.Anyways if your just looking to play music loud brazilians are better than Koreans, IMO. They are more effecient, smaller, and cost less per watt.&nbsp; What they won&#039;t do is do great for competition scenarios.With a Korean you pay 2 grand for an 8k.&nbsp; It&#039;ll put out 8k at one ohm at 14.4.&nbsp; One ohm being the real load, not the nominal load, so you have to wire to .25 to see a real 1ohm and it wont&#039; do that daily.&nbsp; You can usually get more power out of it if you keep increasing the voltage, sometimes 10k+ wired that low if your running 18v dropping to say 16.&nbsp; That being said, running the Korean at a nominal 1ohm load on a normal electrical, it&#039;ll be more like 2.5k after rising up to 2.5-3ohms.With brazilians you can&#039;t run 18 volts, you can&#039;t let the amp see a real one ohm load, both will break it.&nbsp; You can wire to a nominal 1ohm load though and instead of getting 3k out of it, you&#039;ll get more like 5k.Koreans often put out more power than they are rated at, especially if you have the elecrical to back it up.&nbsp; Brazilians dont&#039; want crazy elecrical or real ohm loads and won&#039;t out more than they are rated at, they often put out less since they arent&#039; designed to see their real lowest impedance for most than a short burp.&nbsp; For musical situations, that&#039;s fine, for competition, not so much.&nbsp; Brazilians get a bad rap because people want to burp them at .25ohm to get 10k out of them like a korean, they wont&#039; take that abuse.Taramps wont&#039; shut off until 10.5v or so, as long as your staying above 11 your fine.&nbsp; They like battery voltage 12v give or take a volt here or there.&nbsp; They put out more power as you go higher, but they dont&#039; like over 15.5, they shut off past that.&nbsp; Also if you run it into clipping while maintaing a high input voltage, that is hard on them too.&nbsp; Basically, don&#039;t clip them unless your voltage drop is putting you under 13.6.&nbsp; If it is, then a soft clip is fine, if it isn&#039;t under 1.6 your overloading their outputs when they clip.&nbsp; Again on music you shouldnt&#039; be clipping things like crazy with a big amp like that on tap anyways.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="T3mpest, post: 8319442, member: 560148"] Link to that thread? There was a long Caco thread where someone brought it up, but the techs said it wouldn't happen and nobody linked to specific to it really happeneing, at least with taramps. Someone claimed it happened with a banda or some other brazilian amp company, never saw any proof tho. Anyways if your just looking to play music loud brazilians are better than Koreans, IMO. They are more effecient, smaller, and cost less per watt. What they won't do is do great for competition scenarios. With a Korean you pay 2 grand for an 8k. It'll put out 8k at one ohm at 14.4. One ohm being the real load, not the nominal load, so you have to wire to .25 to see a real 1ohm and it wont' do that daily. You can usually get more power out of it if you keep increasing the voltage, sometimes 10k+ wired that low if your running 18v dropping to say 16. That being said, running the Korean at a nominal 1ohm load on a normal electrical, it'll be more like 2.5k after rising up to 2.5-3ohms. With brazilians you can't run 18 volts, you can't let the amp see a real one ohm load, both will break it. You can wire to a nominal 1ohm load though and instead of getting 3k out of it, you'll get more like 5k. Koreans often put out more power than they are rated at, especially if you have the elecrical to back it up. Brazilians dont' want crazy elecrical or real ohm loads and won't out more than they are rated at, they often put out less since they arent' designed to see their real lowest impedance for most than a short burp. For musical situations, that's fine, for competition, not so much. Brazilians get a bad rap because people want to burp them at .25ohm to get 10k out of them like a korean, they wont' take that abuse. Taramps wont' shut off until 10.5v or so, as long as your staying above 11 your fine. They like battery voltage 12v give or take a volt here or there. They put out more power as you go higher, but they dont' like over 15.5, they shut off past that. Also if you run it into clipping while maintaing a high input voltage, that is hard on them too. Basically, don't clip them unless your voltage drop is putting you under 13.6. If it is, then a soft clip is fine, if it isn't under 1.6 your overloading their outputs when they clip. Again on music you shouldnt' be clipping things like crazy with a big amp like that on tap anyways. [/QUOTE]

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