I need an amp for my subwoofers.

What do i need for an amp to power 2 old school Kicker Competition subwoofers?

• I have two old school Kicker Competion subwoofers. They are 8 ohm subs. I have a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 a^2 amp and its a 2 channel. I bought the box all wired up with the amp they are wired into the bridged channel of the amp. I think the subs are wired together to 4 ohms. The subs are wired together and come out at one connection at the back of the box. Is there a way to check to what ohms they are wired to easily? The subs are a Kicker Comp Vr c12d is on the left side of the box and the Kicker Competition c12 sub is on the right. I hope they have the same peak and rms power that I have found on the internet that the subs have a 150 watt rms each and 300 watts peak power each. What size of amp do I need? Do I need an amp that has 300 watts rms at 4ohms and 600 watts max power or am I wrong? Can the amp have more max power than the subs as long as the rms watts are the same as the subs? Whats would be the best amp to get all the power out of them?

• Answer:

  always double check the wiring inside the box before sending power to them http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer_configurations.asp?Q=2&I=81 peak.max wattage's mean nothing at all, all you care about is the RMS (continuous) wattage the amp needed should have about 300watts RMS @ 4ohms (usually about 600watts RMS @ 2ohms) and also be CEA-compliant which means that the amp has been tested and produces or exceeds the advertised RMS wattage with minimum distortion my recommendations http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_13861_MTX+Audio+XThunder+X500D.html perfect match $180 http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_12018_Alpine+MRP-M500.html perfect match $200 http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_12301_Clarion+APX1301.html what i would get $130 and it goes on and on If you send too much power to your sub, you risk damaging it. The cone of the speaker and the mechanical parts that make it move may break under the stress. Surprisingly, too little power can also damage your subwoofer — in fact, it's actually more common than damage caused by overpowering. When the volume is turned up and the amp doesn't have enough power, the signal becomes distorted, or "clipped." This distorted signal can cause parts of the speaker to overheat, warp and melt. Not good! You don't have to match speaker and amp wattages exactly. An amp with a higher output than the speaker's rating won't necessarily damage the speaker — just turn the amp down a bit if you hear distortion from the sub and don't run the speaker at extremely loud volumes for lengthy periods. Likewise, you'll be OK with a lower powered amp if you keep the volume down and don't feed a distorted signal to the sub you will send the amp into clipping Clipping Clipping occurs when an amplifier is asked to deliver more current to a speaker than the amp is capable of doing. When an amplifier clips, it literally cuts off the tops and bottoms of the musical waveforms that it's trying to reproduce, thus the term. This introduces a huge amount of distortion into the output signal. Clipping can be heard as a crunching sound on musical peaks. that causes distorted sound which will damage your subs over time