i was running a 300 watt mobile authority amp, a 60 watt dual CD deck, and my mp3. the cd deck was on 16 and the amp was all the way down. trying to break it in. after about 4 days of playing music i got the deck all the way up and the amp about half way. it was doing pretty good. nothing wrong or anything. i turned it down for a bit when i was going through McDonalds, and then i turned the deck back up to 24 and POP one of them blew. soo i just blew the other one. i turned up the amp and after about 2 minutes of playing pyrex pot, it blew. soo i had my fun. i was going to get a new system anyways soon but i just needed something for a short while but not THAT short. lol.