how many watts should I push to each speaker? or total for the pair?
829940
FYI, the website says these speakers have an RMS capacity of 60W. http://www.jbl.com/estore/jbl/us/products/GTO638/GTO638_JBL_US
829941
Always rely on RMS ratings on everything. There is an industry standard to how things are rated when stated "RMS". Peak can and is very different from company to company. Also, most speakers can handle a bit of overpowering if it's NOT distorted. These speakers would be very happy with an amplifier powering anywhere from 40-80W RMS. Be mindful that these speakers may be lower impedance (2 ohms instead of 4) than the typical car audio speaker, so check your amplifier or deck's manual for 2-ohm ratings.
736818
Well this depends on what ohm rating the speakers are. They aren't just "1200W", they will be 1200W at either 2, 4, or, 8 ohms. Once you find this out, look at the amps specs and look at the ohm rating that matches the ohm value for you speakers, that is the amount of watts that the amp will produce at the ohm rating per channel. You may want to get a more powerful
1636650
Dieckmann, you have not mentioned what watt are you speakers. i have the same problem too but my speakers are like 40W. i am usuing my old speakers till i get a deal on a new 80-100W speakers.so maybe if you upgrade the speaker is you have low Watt ones you will get good sound at 30-40 level.hope this helps
1805269
They have a Push in slot, Red and Black. Just lift the tab and insert the wire. Just make sure your amp will not over power them. I blew 4 smaller speaker with a amp that was rated 2000 watts and 4 speakers that were rated 200 watts each. I turned it up too high and the sound quit about a 1/2 hour later.
2180487
A good 400 or 300 watt amplifier will be ok. The speakers can not take more then 400 watts of peak power. It can cause damage.
820197
I use (two) 2500 Watt speakers. Their should be no problem with using your set. The CD mixer will shake the walls, mine does!!!!
87409
At least 100 watts to drive them. I believe they handle much more than that. Any less power and the 15" speaker won't thump. Hope this helps
721250
Nathaniel,A 4500 Watt may be just a little bit too much overkill for these speakers. They run at about 8 Ohms and 2200 Watts so in my suggestion a 3000 watt amp at the absolute highest. Remember you don't want to overpower and blow out the speakers but you don't want to under power and damage them either.
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I would go with @ least a 1000.1 amp depending how many subs u plan on pushing they are competition speakers whatever you do don't hook them up & blast them they (swr-12d4) need to be slowly broken in I did 40hrs @ half setting on amp n volume
621704
I did some brief reading about how to match amps and speakers, and my understanding is that the amp's power rating should be less than that of the speakers--around half the peak rated wattage. But as well as power you have to make sure the impedance of the speakers matches the output impedance range of the amp. If you're running two 8 ohm speakers in parallel on each channel, that's actually 4 ohms, so check those numbers. We use this Grace BTAR122 in conjunction with two 80 watt Polk Atrium 4 speakers and it sounds fantastic.
2258314
These speakers need power. I have 120W per channel and they could take more. Dont skimp on power.
87407
I have a Yamaha with 120 watts per channel. That seems like plenty of power.I don't know if I'd use less than 80. Good speakers for the money
1264164
To push them well you will want a external 4ch amp. But that's a good start and will totally work! Enjoy.
909753
You could use one amplifier per speaker, but it won't be any better than plugging both speakers into one amplifier - it's 15 watts per channel, not 30 watts wherever, so leaving one side disconnected doesn't gain you anything on the other side. You also can't connect them together. That really shouldn't matter much, though. You don't actually have to run 30 watt speakers from a 30 watt amplifier - I've had this little amp hooked up to a pair of 100-watt speakers and it was just fine. You can't run the speakers to their maximum volume, but they run just fine at normal volumes. Remember, noise and power aren't linear, so 15 watts isn't half as loud as 30 watts. In fact, a mere 3 watts is half as loud as 30! 15 watts is enough to get your speakers fairly loud.
2237428
Using two 16 ohm would be the same as using four 8 ohm. You would be getting about 30 watts of power to the speakers. That is not much!
1437837
The amp should push them just fine. each hx2 can only hold 500 watts rms. so it's a combined total of 1000 watts rms.
1476916
It depends on how much wattage your deck puts out. If your stereo is putting out at least 15 watts RMS per channel, that's enough wattage to push these speakers just fine. However, if you decide to go with an amp, make sure that it isn't putting out more than the RMS wattage for the speakers (which I think is 35 watts per channel) and that your high-pass filter is set to about 800 hertz. If you don't use an amp or if your amp doesn't come equipped with a high-pass filter, make sure to install 800hz bass blockers on each speaker in order to protect them.