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<blockquote data-quote="Deiimos" data-source="post: 8837924" data-attributes="member: 682903"><p>I personally would not buy an 800w amp for that JL set. You’d be depending on the amp to do over rated to allow for any clean headroom on any dynamic peaks. If it does right around 800w and not much or any more, anything past that is clipping / distortion. With a 1000w amp, you get guaranteed 800w of clean power, and even if it would occasionally hit 1000w, it’s still clean. As mentioned, you could run a 2000+ watt amp and just attenuate the input lower to set the output where you need it, no big deal. Also, if you tune say a 1000w amp so that it is putting out about 800w, it is less strain on the amp as well, since you are not trying to squeeze every last drop of power out of it.</p><p></p><p>Any setup I've run, I've always been happier with more power than the sub actually needed.</p><p></p><p>The key is to make sure the amp is not clipping, and that you tune the amp lower as needed if overpowering the sub is a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deiimos, post: 8837924, member: 682903"] I personally would not buy an 800w amp for that JL set. You’d be depending on the amp to do over rated to allow for any clean headroom on any dynamic peaks. If it does right around 800w and not much or any more, anything past that is clipping / distortion. With a 1000w amp, you get guaranteed 800w of clean power, and even if it would occasionally hit 1000w, it’s still clean. As mentioned, you could run a 2000+ watt amp and just attenuate the input lower to set the output where you need it, no big deal. Also, if you tune say a 1000w amp so that it is putting out about 800w, it is less strain on the amp as well, since you are not trying to squeeze every last drop of power out of it. Any setup I've run, I've always been happier with more power than the sub actually needed. The key is to make sure the amp is not clipping, and that you tune the amp lower as needed if overpowering the sub is a problem. [/QUOTE]
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