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1000 watt amp sony xplod

posted by Hazeldazer on Jan 01, 2008


well the 1000 watt amp is'nt pushing my 10 and 12 like nothing. my 250 watt amp pushed harder then the brand new 1000 watt amp??????????
well I have the XM-2165GTX,  And The 12" subs just do not sound right in my truck I had a special Box made just for the XS-L120P5W subwoofers And with the 1000watt amp Gain nob turned half way up it distorts really bad It kinda sounds like the Air space is wrong in the box.  Everyone I now says it sounds good, but I have installed stereos for competition, and I can here the speakers distort, Can you help me?      2nd. Question Can you tell me the Required air space for these 12" subs XS-L120P5W, I have 2 of them and it is in a sealed box For a 2000 Chevy ext. cab truck.                   Thank you for your time                                                            William Palmer
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posted on Oct 29, 2008
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i have 2 12" kicker comp and i run them both off of them and they sound great.  i ran both of the speaker wirer to the same output terminal and that solved my problem.
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posted on Jan 01, 2008
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That's not a 1000w amp. It's a 400 watt amp when loaded to it's lowest rated load. If you have one speaker per channel (the only safe load if you have single 4 ohm coil speakers), you're only getting 165 watts/speaker. It's probably distorted because you're driving it to clipping.


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