If You Have A 1600 watts Amplifier Do You Have To Use The Whole 1600 Watts?

NCA6.72019-01-01T13:05:28Z

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No, the whole amplifier doesn’t need to be feeding the speakers/woofers. It all depends on the impedance, the RMS power the amplifier drops out at, and the RMS power on the woofer.

For example, here’s an amplifier. It does 1600 watts at a 1 ohm load and 1000 watts at a 4 ohm load. Your woofer is a single voice coil 4 ohm, 1000 watts RMS. You wired the woofers in parallel for a 4 ohm load at 1000 watts.

1 ohm, 1600 watts.
4 ohm, 1000 watts.

Free Advice2019-01-26T20:26:50Z

What about your hearing loss in years to come.

Nuff Sed2019-01-11T04:00:00Z

If you can fly a fighter jet at Mach 1, do you have to fly that way all the time? How can you land it?

N2Audio2019-01-02T14:57:13Z

Would be helpful if you d mention the brand and model number. A lot of cheaper amps market ridiculous peak/max power ratings when the actual power output of the amp is a fraction as much.

An ~$80 Boss Audio amp, for example, may claim 1500 or 1600 watts max, but measured power output under optimal conditions would be in the 300-400w rms range. Typical "in-use" average power would, again, be a fraction of that -- around 100w rms.

"Overpowering" speakers is actually pretty hard to do.

The Devil2019-01-01T01:24:22Z

No you don't have to run it full blast, but what a waste buying something you don't or can't use.

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