I am looking at buying two Power Acoustik P3's, but still am weary about what kind of amp I need to power them. Each sub is 12, with 1300watts RMS 1600watts peak. Most Class D amps I have seen are rated at 4ohm, 2 ohm, and 1 ohm stable. These speakers run at 2ohms. On amps I am looking at run at 900watts RMS x1 channel. So if I am running 2 speakers, is this cut in half? So for instance instead of the amp running 900watts RMS, it would be running 450watts RMS to each speaker. To me, that's pretty underpowered. I'm not trying to break the bank on this, both speakers are gonna cost me $200, an enclosure probably 60-80.
I can't help you on the quality of the speakers. But if you put in speakers that can not handle all the power the amp can put out be care full not to turn the radio up all the way. just because the amp is rated at that power rating it is only putting that out at full power or before distortion ruins the sound quality reproduction of the speakers. do no thry to put a potenetionmeter (variable resistor) in series with the speakers, you'll change the resistance and mess up the balance of the resistance of the circuit.
