60w into 120w components too little?

[kirill007]

Just run your amp at 2ohms and get more power out of it. Your hurting your mids by under powering them so much, dropping to 2ohms would make a big difference.

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it. You can hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it, not underpowering though.

-Edited for snarkiness

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it, but you can't hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it either.

Electric guitars and even bass guitar are usually clipping and distorting, but the speaker won't blow just because you are playing rock music.

Using a 60W amp on 120w R.M.S. rated components will not hurt anything and will certainly be quite loud.

The difference between 60w and 120w would ideally be 3dB, which isn't considered a big difference in hearing.

Dont listen to these guys! YES underpowering will ruin your speakers. You will wanna turn up system every now n then, why else have a system!? And when you do, underpowering will cause clipping, coils burning etc...so yes if the amp u have is what u have, then wire at 2ohm and get that extra 30-50 Rms, will make a huge difference.

Underpowering will not ruin speakers. Speakers are made to be able to dissipate a certain amount of heat expressed in Watts, if you are below those numbers then you are safe and not damaging the speakers in any way. On the contrary, you are going easy on them. imagine you turning your volume down and the speakers going up in smoke because you are underpowering them. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Go look up what R.M.S. means and how it is applied to speakers.

[rockFord_Expedition]

If your gonna listen to your system at volume 1, then ya it wont ruin it. But 99% of people will turn up volume more than that, and giving only 50% of what your speakers need, yes it will ruin them. And if you really wanna listen to these guys that underpowering wont ruin them...then go ahead and keep your system the way it is and I guarantee you that in a few months or less you will be buying new speakers.

Holy shit you are misinformed. You fit the mold of "someone who knows a little bit about something is more dangerous than someone who knows nothing"

The damage you are trying to help the OP steer clear from is caused by a dirty signal, not the power delivered being less than rated capabilities. The power supplied is not the issue in this example.

If a bridge has a capacity of 10 tons, and you put 400lbs on it, then put it through an earthquake, it will fail because of the earthquake not because it was holding less weight than it was capable of.

[rockFord_Expedition]

Just run your amp at 2ohms and get more power out of it. Your hurting your mids by under powering them so much, dropping to 2ohms would make a big difference.

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it. You can hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it, not underpowering though.

-Edited for snarkiness

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it, but you can't hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it either.

Electric guitars and even bass guitar are usually clipping and distorting, but the speaker won't blow just because you are playing rock music.

Using a 60W amp on 120w R.M.S. rated components will not hurt anything and will certainly be quite loud.

The difference between 60w and 120w would ideally be 3dB, which isn't considered a big difference in hearing.

Dont listen to these guys! YES underpowering will ruin your speakers. You will wanna turn up system every now n then, why else have a system!? And when you do, underpowering will cause clipping, coils burning etc...so yes if the amp u have is what u have, then wire at 2ohm and get that extra 30-50 Rms, will make a huge difference.

Underpowering will not ruin speakers. Speakers are made to be able to dissipate a certain amount of heat expressed in Watts, if you are below those numbers then you are safe and not damaging the speakers in any way. On the contrary, you are going easy on them. imagine you turning your volume down and the speakers going up in smoke because you are underpowering them. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Go look up what R.M.S. means and how it is applied to speakers.

How do you figure?

[rockFord_Expedition]

Just run your amp at 2ohms and get more power out of it. Your hurting your mids by under powering them so much, dropping to 2ohms would make a big difference.

To do this he would have to run 2 sets per channel.

I don't think that amp doubles it's power from 4 ohms to 2, but even if it did, that is still not accomplishing anything.........................

Yup, just looked up the amp. 60w x 4 at 4 ohm and 100w x 4 at 2 ohm. Running them at 4 ohm gives him more power per speaker. 60/1 > 100/2

Even if your assumption was right there would be zero benefit by doing this. Do the OP and everyone else a favor and stop giving bad advice.

[kirill007]

Just run your amp at 2ohms and get more power out of it. Your hurting your mids by under powering them so much, dropping to 2ohms would make a big difference.

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it. You can hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it, not underpowering though.

-Edited for snarkiness

You can't hurt a speaker by underpowering it, but you can't hurt a speaker by sending a distorted or clipped wave to it either.

Electric guitars and even bass guitar are usually clipping and distorting, but the speaker won't blow just because you are playing rock music.

Using a 60W amp on 120w R.M.S. rated components will not hurt anything and will certainly be quite loud.

The difference between 60w and 120w would ideally be 3dB, which isn't considered a big difference in hearing.

Dont listen to these guys! YES underpowering will ruin your speakers. You will wanna turn up system every now n then, why else have a system!? And when you do, underpowering will cause clipping, coils burning etc...so yes if the amp u have is what u have, then wire at 2ohm and get that extra 30-50 Rms, will make a huge difference.

Underpowering will not ruin speakers. Speakers are made to be able to dissipate a certain amount of heat expressed in Watts, if you are below those numbers then you are safe and not damaging the speakers in any way. On the contrary, you are going easy on them. imagine you turning your volume down and the speakers going up in smoke because you are underpowering them. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Go look up what R.M.S. means and how it is applied to speakers.

How do you figure?

I gave a example in the next line, and because of independent testing and coming to this conclusion.

Simple knowledge of electricity also helps to know this, actually knowing what power means.