What amplifier is right for me?

Question

what would be an ideal amplifier for two 12'' rockford fosgate p3 shallow mounts 4 ohm subwoofers

Answer 1

although its pricey go with an infinity or pioneer bridgeable

Answer 2

i think hifonics titan 200x2 amp will do you good. hifonics gives you good bass. and its 400watts rms at 4 ohms. which will give you a good sound will balanced.

check it out - http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/CarAudio/...

Answer 3

Stick with rockford all the way. They have the most underrated amps out there, meaning the watts shown on the amp it's self is actually less than the real rating. With rockford you do get the most bang for your buck.

Answer 4

those are 4ohm DVC subs so depending on your wiring you can get impedances at the amp of 1 or 4ohms at the amp (here's a diagram of your wiring options http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer...

so the amp needed will have about 1000watts RMS @ 1 or 4ohms and be CEA-compliant which means that the amps have been tested and produce or exceed the advertised RMS wattage with minimum distortion (over time distortion 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

the lower the final impedance at the amp the lower the sound quality but the easier/cheaper it is to power ---- not all CEA-compliant amps are stable below 2ohms so they will run hot

here is a link with a wide selection of amps and it clearly states the RMS wattage at different impedances and also says if its stable at 1ohm http://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_i23_m...

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