honestly, RF is good.. before they started changing things around.. I havee heard through many installers who said, that the new RF isn't as good as it's old punch series.. nurse, it all depends.. do you want quality or wantity..

Some other amps to look at (company names that you can get locally here are Pheonix Gold, Alpine, Audiobahn, Planet Audio, MA, MTX, RF, Sony, Coustic, JL, Kenwood, pioneer .. it took me about 5-7 months to decided on an amp.. so don't rush into things.. cause you'll end up with a paper weight..

 

hes right, i used to have a Kenwood amp, it was a piece of shit... and i had a Kenwood sub as well, now i know better... but yeah its all on what YOU like not what I like... i swear by Rockford now, but thats besides the point...

besides Rockford may be a blonde, but JL Audio, JBL, and Audiobahn are like the whole Swedish bikini team, RF is only one of them, not all

 

haha you said the magic words TibOne.. mmm swedish bikini team...
you guys didn't answer my stupid question though... i thought the JL subs i bought were 8 ohms.. doesn't the amp need to be set to 2 ohms as well?

 

ok well if they are 8 ohms, im not entirely sure but you may be able to take em down to 2 ohms, no the amp doesnt need to be set to two ohms, just the subs, the amp will see that the subs want two ohms and thats what they will get... although you could look into getting an amp that will handle those 8 ohm subs

 

if they are 8 ohms, all you can do is half the total impedance the amp sees, or double it. unless its DVC 8 ohms.

 

I can agree with some of the analogies used regarding different syatems....My full clarion setup is extremely crisp and clean across the full spectrum...however my friends RF setup hits much harder and louder but if not as clean ....I prefer and pure clean sound to a loud bumping system. With stereo setups it all comes down to personal preferance and what you are looking for.

 

you gots ta have the bump in the trunk.... bomp bomp bomp all the way down the road

i believe Clarions motto is "be heard, be seen"

 

indeed t is.. I'm a showoff for sure.. when you dis sexxxxxxxyyyy... hehe
i'm.. too sexy for my tib.. too sexy for my tib.. too sexy for it...

So i was doing some reading... turns out if you wire the JL 10W1-8 subs in parallel, you could bring them down to 4 ohms.. at 125w rms a piece.. i would need a 250 w amp right? now Clarion has amps that would pump out less than 200 total rms.. or about 300 total sms... does it matter if the amp pumps out more juice than the subs can handle? Will it recognize that the subs only need 125w each and pump out that much?

 

yeah it will be fine if the sub is bigger... just make sure you go 4 gauge wires not 8 gauge... or you can forget about putting in an amp

 

alrite guys i think i'm gonna cry.. i'm all confused...
to get the best sound out of a speaker.. you got to get it as close to its max ram rating as possible right? will this blow the speaker?
From what i understand, the amp has to have less power than the speaker or the subs its provifing juice to.. so if a sub has an rm rating of 125w and a peak of 300w.. i need to get as close to 300w as possible to get the best sound? and to do so I will need an amp that is 300w max?
would someone write a book on car audio in simple words explaining rms...difference between 2 and 3 way speakers... the use of amps.. how ohms work... the different gauges of wiring... AHHH you need to a damn rocket scientist to figure this stuff out...
I could really use the amnesty of the newbie section.. but i figure maybe some of the folks who aren't newbies want to know this stuff but are too proud to ask it...