Polk DB6501 Question

Juleous · 09-16-2010, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat

If you do not have the power for new speakers they are not going to be worth the time to put them in, as aposed to a new head unit.

The expert has spoken, end of discussion.

DeEePiDDy · 09-16-2010, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Juleous

The expert has spoken, end of discussion.

Now now now.. I thought you and 90 ST were the experts. Considering all your combined years you guys just seem to know everything!

Juleous · 09-16-2010, 10:56 PM

Little story my dad taught me about amplifier power, my first car Datsun 200 I was shopping for an amp for my new 6x9's max power was like 150watt and I wanted all of that so I was out shopping for this new amp. I show my dad what I was going to get and he laughed at me, he asked why would you need that much power going to those little speakers? I said I don't know isn't more power better? He laughs again at me and says you should buy this little 20watt amp right here! Now I am like yea right, he says I will buy you what ever amp you want if you try this little 20 watt orion amp. I am like sure thinking I am getting what ever amp I want anyway. So we hook this thing up and I could not believe the sound I got from two 6x9 and less than 40watts total power it blew me away. Let's just say I didn't get the amp I wanted and kept that Orion amp for several years, wish I had it today. Funny how it always ends up that my pops was right.

bigaudiofanat · 09-16-2010, 10:59 PM

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.

Juleous · 09-16-2010, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat

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.

Dude you are so far out of your league here, I suggest you go back to reading your magazines.

For the record this is not a personal attack so don't give me crap, I will now leave the forum before I get banned. Thank you and goodnight!

DeEePiDDy · 09-16-2010, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Juleous

For the record this is not a personal attack so don't give me crap, I will now leave the forum before I get banned. Thank you and goodnight!

Gee wizzz.. i heard that before!

90 ST · 09-16-2010, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat

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.

DeEePiDDy · 09-16-2010, 11:41 PM

I could care less what the link says and yes i did read through it. A junk head unit is going to sound like junk and no amount of you saying otherwise is going to convince me. Lets just chalk it up to agreeing to disagree. And i don't care that you have 20+ years of installing experience. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine.

daimon1313 · 09-16-2010, 11:47 PM

YouTube - Mars Attacks "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?"

90 ST · 09-16-2010, 11:58 PM

i'm not looking to fight, i'm just stating some facts...

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