Should I be worried about pushing our DJ equipment? We are running two JBL mains & 2 JBL subs w/ 2 crown amps?

Question

We are running two JRX125 mains off a Crown XLS-802d amplifier and two JRX118S subwoofers off another Crown XLS-802d. The JRX125s say the recommended power is between 700-1000 watts and the xls-802d puts out 800 per channel at 4 ohms. The subwoofer says between 500-700 watts and the other crown puts out the same 800w a channel. I was testing out our equipment with the new subs and we blew an amplifier. We did not have any gain turned up and the main wasnt even turned up all the way. Could it have been a bad amp or did we push it too hard? I dont know if this is relevant but we are using a XLR splitter that is NOT powered. Can that cause problems? Thank you so much!

Answer 1

You most likely had a bad amp.  But, in the future you shouldnt try to push everything right from the start.  Also you should never push everything to its limit.  Break your equipment in first by playing them at a good level for a few hours like 10 or so and then start to push them.  Other then that it sounds like youve got a nice sound system going.   One other thing is if your using that xlr splitter after the amp then thats your problem hook your speakers up 1 to a channel.  If its before your fine.