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Originally Posted by Liberate247
I was looking at the Fender Metalhead amp, but thats a little pricy and 500w for a solid-state head? Sounds like overkill, but I've heard nothing but good things about it.
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I typically use speakers that are rated at double what I intend to put through them, and never more than maybe 40 watts through a 12", if that. I realize that some may be rated at hundreds of watts each, but have you ever tried it? The rating may assure you that your voice coil won't melt when hit with 200 watts at 1 KHz, but the same 200 watts at the fundamental frequency of low E (80 Hz) would send that voice coil flying right across the room. It has to move literally 100 times as far to produce the same acoustical energy at 80 Hz as at 1000, and, since no cone can move a few inches forwards and backwards, the only way to deal with that is more cone surface area. Half a dozen 15s might be happy with 500 watts, but two 12s? Naah.
So my only thought would be: what good is 250 watts per speaker going to do you?