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Old 09-17-2010, 12:15 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat View Post
Over powering and under powering are both bad when you under power you not even going to have enough power to really move the woofer, and you can actually damage the speakers that way. Now if you want to talk tube amps than 8 watts from there is much more efficient than 80 watts from a regular amp in home audio talk that is.
All with in reason, i'm not saying you'll want to run a set of Utopia BE's with a stock HU, but it would sound better then swaping the HU and running the stock speakers...some of the cleanest home amps are lower power...i would rather have a 25x2 clean amp then a 50x2 crapy amp.
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