Underpowering Subs

[Namosh]

It happens like this;

1) Click search

2) Enter desired search, "Underpowering Speakers" or "Underpowering Subs" etc

3) Select relevant thread

4) ?????????

5) PROFIT

Cheers,

Mick

:lol:

+1 for South Park ref

[NcHalfrican]

Thanks for all the replies...very helpful

[tripleb45]

no problem better to underpower than overpower contrary to popular belief.

[MickyMcD]

no problem better to underpower than overpower contrary to popular belief.

Load of crap.

No headroom - no transient peaks past 0dB. Non-harmonic distortion artifacts instead of transient peaks as you come in and out of the rails.

Headroom - transient peaks to headroom, room before you hit the rails in the power amplifier. General rule, have another 3dB of gain up from your rated power. Thus, you still have clean headroom at maximum system volume.

Cheers,

Mick

[andym85]

read this...

http://www.bcae1.com/2ltlpwr.htm