rookie question i'm sure...

well you get the idea of what i ment. since the power of ech sub will be cut in half since kenwood has a resistor that keeps 2 ohm and 1 ohm at the same power. so what im saying it won't gain as much SPL as you normaly would by adding 2 subs.

did i clear it up better?

 

yea i would if i was you. if he wants a 2nd sub just tell him to get a 2nd matching amp so you gain the most out of having 2 subs.

he may not like it if you hooked it up at 1 ohm and blew the fuse's or fried the hole amp.

dang kenwood can't get there specs right lol

 

RMS power and Max power or Peak power are directly related. There is a mathematical formula for it, not sure what it is right now but RMS is always a little less than half of the peak power. Power is measured as a wave on a graph so it's just two ways of measuring the wave, RMS is a measurement of half of the wave and Peak power is a measurement of the whole wave. Haha, so i do remember something useful from school. RMS is the true power though when matching amps to speakers they get away with stuff because not many people know the difference.

 

im sure glade you spell them big words for me lol that's my bigest problem trying to explain some then and i can't spell it. ether way it RMS power is how you match subs and amps. the max is just a spike of power on a graph that will come and go so fast the sub never really responds to it.

im sure not every company reads there graph the same or have the same graph. or the company just plain lie's about there power rating. you know what i mean when you get a cheapo amp that's supos to have like 2000 watts rms and it can't push subs that are rated for half that power.

 

Main thing is that pretty much 90% of the "peak/max" power ratings are overinflated. Now if you could verify the rail voltage on the amps than you could do that .707 or something number and get a rough rms output.