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Why?I'd use 2 times more powerful speaker than the amp itself (in RMS terms)
Why?
Do you listen to sounds that are continuous and always at more than full volume? No.
Music has occasional peaks which might be at full volume but the average power is 1/10th the full volume.
Some people turn up the volume so high that the output is severely clipped square-waves that have double the RMS power of the amplifiers.you cant listen to sound that is more than full volume, that can not happen.
My new PA speakers advise you to use an amplifier up to twice the RMS rating of the speakers, it's far worse driving the amplifier into clipping than having too large an amplifier.
I'd use 2 times more powerful speaker than the amp itself (in RMS terms) ... As long as the amp will not clip the signal, the sound would be of better quality with more powerful speaker...
^ see that can not happen. Everybody wants volume up when the good song comes
and with your suggestion I see they change speakers every week.
however, todays nice amps have power limiting (protective) circuits so in case the load gets too big, the amp lowers the volume by itself. Or shuts down (like the JL audio ones do, lol). But not all have that feature though.
on the other hand, even if the amp would start clipping, one can always hear it with "bigger" speakers and lower the volume thereafter.
thinking more about it, even if an amp start clipping, this is not a sign that it will burn out. As long as it's heaving the necessary cooling abilities, it can run even if it starts clipping. Clipping is just the unability of the amp to raise voltage high enough to sustain the gain of the amp and therefore to drive the load at the wanted levels. What burns out stuff is the high current flow.