ok yo kind of lost me. haha i guess what i am asking is how much continous power is reaching the speakers. Im not sure if this helps but each speaker is hooked up to a 62.5 foot span of 16 guage speaker wire and the selector has 14 guage from the receiver to the speaker selector. also i made an error in the model number of my receiver it is a pioneer vsx 815 k
Ah, the 815 does have preouts. So you can connect an amplifier too it. I think that's something you could look into down the road. Right now you should focus on speakers and worry about power later. Most people that don't know about this hobby get consumed by the "wattage" of the components they are using and disregard all other factors. Wattage is not a measure of loudness, it's a measurement of power. For example, a semi tractor has a lot of power, yet it is incredible inefficient and if speed and exceleration are performance you expect you won't get it from the semi, even though it has all that power. Now you take a Corvette or another sports car. The car goes much faster and excelerates faster, but it does so with a much smaller engine than a semi.
A stereo is the sum of it's parts, so I will apply the logic of vehicles to your stereo. Assume that a Ford F150 pickup and Mustang GT come stock with the same engine (I know they don't, but it's as close as I care to get and it works for this comparison). The receiver is symbolized by the engine and the rest of the vehicle will be symolized by the speakers. You are currently using a F150 (JBLs) but you'd like to get more speed (output). So you start to consider getting a Mustang GT (new speakers with better sensitivity) because you want that extra speed (output). Because the Mustang GT is a more efficient design it will go faster. So more efficient speakers, ones with a higher sensitivity to their input wattage, will be louder given the same wattage the JBLs have been getting.
