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Yeah, I'm bout to check up on that right now. Thank you Army_guy614 in the end, I'm probably going to end up getting that DMM and then come back in this forum on how to use it!

Yeah, I had an up-to-date factory amp installed to help with door speakers and such, and the ratio is somewhat fair. (The subwoofer is not powering over the voices in the song) You can still hear the song ~ Except the fact that it's at 8 Good thought, however, TL series has stock amps in them already

Another one of my biggest fear =\ If I have my subs constantly playin, will they eventually burn out? (Another reason why I stumble to raise up the volume) I use to have a factory subwoofer (stock) at 8" but for some reason, it just burned out. However, at that time, I was ignorant, had my music playing at level 20/40. :01nocomment8so: Because of that incident, I am just scared to even turn it up past 10 !!! After my buddy (the tuning guy), did his "magic" he had my sub playing at around 15-17 volume. He really loved my boston acoustics . So yeah, any tips on avoiding future burn outs in speakers? I'm defintly going to try the volume @ 15 and look for distortion. (Yeah, I do know what that is , just never knew what clipping meant ) Unfortunately, I'm not in Ohio~ I'm a bit south east of Ohio. Thanks for the help Army_guy614 !

Yeah, I defiently don't have a problem with my current setup, but I feel a "need" to see how much power can be pushed I'm just very curious since I am fairly new at this whole type of stuff. And the DMM, I will definitly look into it. Thank you !

Quick Question: What is "clipping" The problem that I have is basically, is with myself. I'm too "scared" to turn it up. I feel like I'm not pushing my sub to its capability. Once again, I am very new to this audio world and you may say that I have, "virgin ears" when it comes down to subwoofers. These are my first singles and I get like this feeling that I don't want to push it any more higher. Due to my fear, never experiencing with an after-market component speaker, that it may "blow". How about this: I will tune my headunit and try to play it loud. Can anyone explain to me what I should look for and when I should stop when raising up my volume & the bass controls? Thank you Soulman07 with your reply. I learned something new. And thanks to those for future reference that may answer in my thread!

!! Thanks so much for the advice/tips. ! I really appreciate it~ however, I had it professionaly tuned from my buddy's friend whose been doing these stuff for over 20 years. ~ Besides the gain and all them goodies, it's not much of a worry. I just forgot to ask him how far I can push. So my thread is basically asking if it is safe to turn up my volume? But yeah, It would be nice if I had one of those meter things to see the capability.

I have a single 12" Boston Acoustics G2 w/ Sealed Enclosure. It's the perfect system for me for I am not really into competition level. I've had them for about 1 and a half week and I just did a lot of reading saying that it is best to break in new component speakers? Basically, getting the voice coil all loose? Well, I'm "trying' to break in my speaker, but, it's a bit difficult. I would have my volume at 8 (out of 40) and my speakers just bangs~ :hairtrick: So I'm worried that I'm pushing too much power... So I volume it down to 7, but then the subwoofer is barely playing. (I have the subwoofer setting at: -4/6 ) Basically, I can play 10x stronger then I have at the moment. But, because I'm too scared about "blowing" up my sub, I hesitate to turn up my sub higher then 0/6 I always see people pushin' their subs but I'm scared to with mine. Even at the sub control at -4/6, I am deeply satisfied with how much sound it produces. (Especially volume @ All I want to do is turn up my volume @ 12 and sub controls to about the positive range out of 6. Future Reference: - My mono kenwood amp and sub has the same ohm level. - The amp powers about the same RMS as the sub as well. What do you guys think? Even the volume @ 8, I feel like, if I play music long enough, the voice coil is just going to die out. (FYI: the sub produces very clean sound with no distortion.) This is my first subwoofer and because of the differences between my factory sub (that I took out) and the Boston Acoustics, I guess you can say I was taken in by such a shock to see such drastic changes in the bass. I believe it's because it's my first sub, that I do not understand the capability of how much bass a single sub can produce, so I hesitate to turn it up. What is your guy's view on this? Perhaps I am underestimating my subwoofer? Details: AMP: Kenwood - Mono Amplifier - 300 watts RMS x 1 @ 2-ohms Subwoofer: Boston Acoustics G2 12" - 12" Dual Voice-Coil - 2-ohm - 100 - 300 watts RMS *Even though I may be satisfied with my current settings, I definitly wouldn't mind turning up a notch! Thank you all for answering~