Amps and rated power in Watts has little to do with perceived sound volume level.
There are plenty of 4x50 watt systems that are loud, deep, clear and articulate.
RMS isn't the whole story either.
What you want is a system that can belt out the dynamics of music across the full audible range of frequencies.
A good sub-bass system can help enormously as it relieves the 'normal' speakers and amps of a huge job.
The clever bit is getting it to integrate into the system properly.
You want to hear bass notes, and the start and end of each of 'em. Not just boom, thud; boom, thud etc.
Bass tubes are crap. A good enclosure, well mounted in the boot, driven with a seriously meaty 200-400 watt mono amp that can do it continuously will help low end definition.
Using active crossovers is a good idea. Passive ones just eat up amplifier power and dissipate it as heat. |