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<blockquote data-quote="Jimmy Hardin" data-source="post: 122416" data-attributes="member: 3644">Re: matching amp with speakersok ,I dont think i would have any trouble as far as the speakers getting out there to the audience . I dont do events for like for thousands of people ,&nbsp; just small events so i may be ok. But what confuses me about it. i have always thought that if you got a 500 watt speaker then thats the size amp you needed to run the speaker. I had an encounter before where i put a mackie 1400I amp in bridged mode through a set of speakers and the woofer was only rated at 200 watts RMS to 400 wats peak. and it blew them , I might have put that story at the first of this post. and i have been very cautious since then. and then this guy on the video that is on this thread was saying that to run a 500 watt speaker you needed a 800 watt amp.&nbsp; Now i did a job saturday and my top amps got pretty warm. and it was under a tent so it wasnt sun light . and i began wondering if that theory was true or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jimmy Hardin, post: 122416, member: 3644"] Re: matching amp with speakers ok ,I dont think i would have any trouble as far as the speakers getting out there to the audience . I dont do events for like for thousands of people , just small events so i may be ok. But what confuses me about it. i have always thought that if you got a 500 watt speaker then thats the size amp you needed to run the speaker. I had an encounter before where i put a mackie 1400I amp in bridged mode through a set of speakers and the woofer was only rated at 200 watts RMS to 400 wats peak. and it blew them , I might have put that story at the first of this post. and i have been very cautious since then. and then this guy on the video that is on this thread was saying that to run a 500 watt speaker you needed a 800 watt amp. Now i did a job saturday and my top amps got pretty warm. and it was under a tent so it wasnt sun light . and i began wondering if that theory was true or not. [/QUOTE]

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