Speakers!?!?!?!?!

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May 11, 2008 | 09:48 PM

#11

zwc0442

Joined: May 2008

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RE: Speakers!?!?!?!?!

Most decks are 50 watts x 4 but that is 50 wattspeak and somewhere around 22 watts rms. I had a set of boston sl95 6x9'srunning off of the deck power on my pioneer 8600 and they sounded decent. But they really come to life when i put a 70 watt x 2 amp in. The amp is rated at 70 watts rms 140 peak per channel. It sounded like i put a sub in compared to before the amp. The deck is probably fine to run factory speakers but to get the most out of a set of good aftermarket speakers you should really use an amp. The difference is like night and day.

May 11, 2008 | 11:53 PM

#12

04MonteLS

Joined: May 2005

Posts: 3,221

RE: Speakers!?!?!?!?!

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ORIGINAL: zwc0442

Most decks are 50 watts x 4 but that is 50 wattspeak and somewhere around 22 watts rms. I had a set of boston sl95 6x9'srunning off of the deck power on my pioneer 8600 and they sounded decent. But they really come to life when i put a 70 watt x 2 amp in. The amp is rated at 70 watts rms 140 peak per channel. It sounded like i put a sub in compared to before the amp. The deck is probably fine to run factory speakers but to get the most out of a set of good aftermarket speakers you should really use an amp. The difference is like night and day.

True, aftermarket speakers will sound alot better when pushed with an amp compared to being run off a deck. But it all depends on the sensitivity/power handling/efficiency of the speaker and the power/tuning abilities of the deck. Not so much as to IF there will be a difference, more along the lines of how much of a difference there'll be.