Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio Max wattage poll

I would like to poll all willing CEG's with slumping systems to cast a vote of how much wattage their systems are handling.

Maximum wattage
less than 300
300-400
400-500
500-600
600-700
700 and more

2400...

300 . . . barely . . .

Originally posted by Kai:

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300 . . . barely . . .

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ditto, now if i could fix the amp, i could push 600. right now it's 130

I hope you arent giving only 300 watts to anything larger than a 10.

it just dawned upon me that you might not be talking subs.

Fosgate 100x2 the old black ones, bridged running 420x1 into 2-12 inch pioneers, then 45x4 running from my Exelon HU into the 4 pioneer 6x8 3-ways in the doors. I likes the sound. Not the best setup but IMHO the SQ kicks arse.

If into max power, i'm currently running about 4000watts max. So about 2000wrms. give or take a few

In reply to:

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I hope you arent giving only 300 watts to anything larger than a 10.

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whys that, Under powering a sub won't hurt it. Its the gain happy people that harm the sub

besides, I hav one of my bostons running on a 200 watt Jensen (laugh if you want, every time I get the money for the jbl something comes up) And it pounds pretty good for that wattage, and brand of amp.

Originally posted by TheGrimace:

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I hope you arent giving only 300 watts to anything larger than a 10.

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And why is that? In most cases anything more isn't really necessary. Unless you are going for pure SPL and need the extra power it's useless. I'm sending about 300W to my PB15 and hit very respectable SPL numbers, along with having almost perfect SQ from it. I was at one point only sendin 180W (MAX) to the same sub and it still got alot of respect from people.