10" Pioneer TS-W252R?

Question

Can anyone tell me what would be a good affordable amplifier for this subwoofer? Here are the specs on the subwoofer

-10" Component subwoofer with 600 watts max. power

-120 Watts nominal power

-4-Ohm single voice coil design

-IMPP composite cone woofer

-Wide-Roll, Dual-Layer urethane surround woofer cone design

-4-Layer long voice coil

-Aluminum voice coil bobbin

-Projected pole yoke with vented pole

-Strontium magnet construction

-Stamped basket with magnet cover

-Spring compression wire terminals

-Recommended enclosure: 0.7 ~ 1.3 cubic feet

-Mounting depth" 5-1/4"

Answer 1

there is'nt many amps that do 120 watts mono d. i think the sub can handle 150 so check out the kicker 300watts amp. does 150 watts 4 ohm

also check out these amps i have them compared. all of tem do 150 watts.

http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/CarAudio/...

Answer 2

you need an amp that has about 120watts RMS @ 4ohms and is also CEA-compliant

when it comes to car audio nine times out of ten you get what you pay for- and you need to look for CEA-compliant brands which means that the amps have been tested and produce or exceed the advertised RMS wattage with minimum distortion (distorion over time is the main cause of speaker damage)

here are the top CEA-compliant brands

Alpine

Bazooka

Blaupunkt

Clarion

Eclipse

Infinity

JBL

JL Audio

JVC

Kenwood

Kicker

MTX

Pioneer

Polk Audio

PPI

Rockford Fosgate

Sony

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

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