Change Amp on Sub (makes sense or no)

[walter duque]

I have a 400 watt downfiring 12" sub. Would it make any sense to change the amp to 1000 watts. Any major gains or drawbacks on this idea.

 

[croseiv]

The only real drawback I can see would be the potential to really push the driver too hard causing premature mechanical failure. Make sure it can handle the power before hand. I would imagine too much juice would fry the voice coil or cause premature wear of the spider from over excursion or other damage.

 

[haraldo]

In addition to previous post.....

Some amplifiers will have built in high-pass filter to protect the driver from over excursion, I guess this is quite important with ported systems as repeated "bottoming out" will break the driver. It will be important to make sure that the driver is protected, I guess....