ok Thanks. would i overload it if i had 2 500wspeakers and a 250w sub linked to a 1000w then ??By overloading the amp you run the risk of damaging it. I'm sure someone will come in with a much more detailed reply.
ok Thanks. would i overload it if i had 2 500wspeakers and a 250w sub linked to a 1000w then ??
It wouldn't damage the amp. The amp is going to put out 1000w regardless if it is a 1w headphone speaker or 2000 watt sub. You will be slightly underpowering your speakers though which can be bad but 250 shouldn't make a huge difference, but your not going to get the full potential out of your speakers. If you want to get your moneys worth, I would get another amp just for the sub. 250 watters wont be to expensive, probably will find them though either 300 or 500.
*Very sorry if I am incorrect! Someone may correct me.
No, your amp does not support tri-mode. You can use either stereo or bridged mono, not both simultaneously.what would happen if i had 2 500w speakers on 2 seprates and i had the sub on bridge ??
heres my amp by the way : Power Amp 1600 - Free Delivery : Lights & Sounds : Maplin
Again, read the site on impedance. It doesn't matter how hard you push the amp.Very sorry, I think I meant to add not to push the amp though.
I keep saying this but there is no such thing as an amp being over or under powered for a speaker, it is all a matter of the application. If you can get sufficient output and headroom from a system with an amp rated at 1W then you are not 'underpowered' regardless of what the speaker is rated. And you can run a 100W continuous rated speaker on a 10,000W rated amp all day as long as the application allows it. The problem is not of the amp being over or under powered based on the speaker but rather of being over or under powered based on the application.PLEASE PLEASE IGNORE THIS. not because it's wrong, but because it's dangerous.
You should never underpower your speakers, just like you should never overpower your speakers. The closer to max you push an amp, the more noise you're sending out, which can damage speakers. Your amp's capacity should be greater than your speaker RMS rating, but lower than your speaker's max rating as a general rule of thumb.
Why were you surprised? A little food for thought:
A 500W speaker on a .2W amp is underpowered no matter how you look at it. That doesn't mean it's bad or dangerous, just that the amp is not capable of supplying enough power to drive the speaker to its capabilities.
A 500W speaker on a 0.2W amp is not underpowered unless it cannot fulfill the needs. Your last statement about "drive the speaker to its capabilities" is the critical factor, you are assuming that is the goal when that is not always true. I have a theatre system out for bid right now that as a result of selecting equipment to meet other specific goals (coverage, intelligibility, reliability, etc.) will probably never be run anywhere near its full output. You are assuming a certain goal and that is the critical factor.
Absolutely wrong. The continuous rating you see published for speakers is the average power applied for some period of time for which the speaker failed in some manner. It could be a minor failure from which it can recover or a major one that is terminal, you don't know. All you know is that the speaker failed in some manner when a specific signal of that average power was applied for some period of time. It is the maximum, not minimum, recommended long term power for the test signal used.
Minimum power requirements do not exist in terms of a speaker, they only exist in terms of an application. A speaker would work fine with whatever power is provided.Aside from the fact that I've never seen a minimum power requirement (I'm sure they exist), I really don't see how this affects amp sales. (unless you're talking about radioshack-type equipment, which is pretty unrelated anyway)
It is not picking nits, the idea of a speaker being 'underpowered' based on its power rating is actually one of the most common misconceptions in audio.At this point we've lapsed into some serious picking of nits, especially about exactly how 'underpowered' is defined. I couldn't find any good definition of it on the interwebs; I'm using it as a general term to describe when an amp is not capable of driving a speaker to its capability, whereas you're using it as a technical term for an impossible situation.
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