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Originally Posted by samoVTR
you want new head unit thats gunna be most expensive really
then components up front and a sub in the boot and on a cheap budget get a 4 channel amp 1 channel for each set of components and then bridge two channels together for the sub
key thing to think about isnt max watt or power as people seem to think but you wanna look at the rms watt and try to have all of them the same or close to it as you can
as i think if you over power speakers then you damage them so if you try to run some 100watt rms components off a 200rms amp i think it damages them
o and dont use the gain on an amp as a volume control cuz that will damage the speakers this should be matched to your head unit (again if i remember correctly) so if your head unit is 5 volt then you set the gain to 5 or i think you can find the best gain by turnin you music up to about 70% volume then increase the gain until you lose abit of clarity (get the shhhh noise and doesnt sound nice) then simply turn the gain back down a tab
and guys correct me if im wrong was a while ago i look into it
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Some good advice there regarding setting up amps.
However, i believe it can be a good thing to overpower speakers (to a certain extent).
This ensures you are always feeding them a clean, unclipped signal, rather than maxing out your amp and feeding the speaker square waves, which leads to distortion.
I.e. A 60w rms speaker would run happily off a 100w rms amp.
