What Would Be a Good Amp For These 2 pioneer Subs?

Question

Key Features:

Cone material: injection-molded polypropylene (IMPP) composite for strength and durability

Surround: urethane, dual layer

Magnet type: strontium

Voice coil: four-layer with aluminum bobbin

Damper: Conex for linear bass response<

Basket design: stamped with magnet cover

Gasket: molded

Terminals: spring compression

Nominal power handling capability: 150 watts RMS

Maximum music power handling capability: 800 watts

Frequency response: 20 to 4000 Hz

Sensitivity: 91 dB (1 watt at 1 meter)

Impedance rating: 4 ohms

Mounting depth: 5.75 inches

Cut-out dimension: 10.9 inches

Weight: 1.5 lbs.

Recommended enclosure size: 1 to 2 cubic feet

I Am Willing to go around $130 dollar Range

Answer 1

$130 is not much for a good amp and i say good because not all amps are built to the same standards-

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 (distortion 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

with non CEA-compliant amps you don&#039;t really know their real RMS wattage so its IMPOSSIBLE to properly match them to subs and they amplify distortion and that is a problem (you are lucky to get half of the advertised RMS wattage from them)

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&#039;s actually more common than damage caused by overpowering.

When the volume is turned up and the amp doesn&#039;t have enough power, the signal becomes distorted, or &quot;clipped.&quot; This distorted signal can cause parts of the speaker to overheat, warp and melt. Not good!

You don&#039;t have to match speaker and amp wattages exactly. An amp with a higher output than the speaker&#039;s rating won&#039;t necessarily damage the speaker — just turn the amp down a bit if you hear distortion from the sub and don&#039;t run the speaker at extremely loud volumes for lengthy periods. Likewise, you&#039;ll be OK with a lower powered amp if you keep the volume down and don&#039;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&#039;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

so the amp needed will have about 300watts RMS at 2 or 8ohms (i assume they are SVC subs), here is a diagram to get a 2oohm final impedance at the amp http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer...

check out this link, they have a wide selection at low prices and the specs are clearly stated http://sonicelectronix.com/cat_i23_mono-...