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<blockquote data-quote="Unregistered" data-source="post: 15234">you should pretty much match your amp output to your sub. it is not really how much your amp supplies your speakers, but what your speakers demand from your amp. ie you have a 100 watt speaker being fed by a 150 watt amp. the most power your speaker is going to demand of your amp is 100 watts. you can kill your speakers by overfeeding it with more power than your speaker is demanding. on the other hand, if you have a 250 watt speaker with the same 150 watt amp, that speaker can at any time request the amp to supply it with 250 watts to play a particular musical passage. the amp rated at 150 watts will soon clip into distortion. sure you can keep your volume set really low to avoid clipping, the sound will be pretty bad; but turn up the volume ever so slightly and you will clip. you will be surprised of the dynamic range of music. play it safe and match it.also be wary about watts/rms. speakers do not care about wattage, they want amps. a good amp may have the same wattage as a lesser amp, but they put out more amps...that is why they hit harder. its all about power supply, power supply, power supply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Unregistered, post: 15234"] you should pretty much match your amp output to your sub. it is not really how much your amp supplies your speakers, but what your speakers demand from your amp. ie you have a 100 watt speaker being fed by a 150 watt amp. the most power your speaker is going to demand of your amp is 100 watts. you can kill your speakers by overfeeding it with more power than your speaker is demanding. on the other hand, if you have a 250 watt speaker with the same 150 watt amp, that speaker can at any time request the amp to supply it with 250 watts to play a particular musical passage. the amp rated at 150 watts will soon clip into distortion. sure you can keep your volume set really low to avoid clipping, the sound will be pretty bad; but turn up the volume ever so slightly and you will clip. you will be surprised of the dynamic range of music. play it safe and match it. also be wary about watts/rms. speakers do not care about wattage, they want amps. a good amp may have the same wattage as a lesser amp, but they put out more amps...that is why they hit harder. its all about power supply, power supply, power supply. [/QUOTE]

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