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Two 500 watt amps or one 1000 watt amp?

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Old 12-03-2004, 06:21 PM
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Question Two 500 watt amps or one 1000 watt amp?

I was thinking about some thing. Say if you are powering two subs and you need 1000 watts. You can either go with a 1000 watt mono block or two 500 watt mono blocks. Now in theory both setups should perform exactly the same, however I was wondering is this true in the real world? Would the system with two 500 watt amps perform better than the single mono block?

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Old 12-03-2004, 06:29 PM
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Why would there be a difference.. they both put out the same amount of power
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that might actually work better. with one amp and two subs you'd be running it at probably a 2 or 4 ohm load. with one amp per sub you could probably easily run it at a stable 1 ohm load. i'm not 100% sure if this is accurate though, i'd talk to either stephen or jake.
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2 amps will give you a little less power in the real world with 2 subs since each sub would be 4 ohms (2 at best with dual voice coils) a larger one (which tend to be underrated) would be run at 2 ohms or 1 ohm if dual
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ok so i had it backwards.
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at least you tried
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