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Ss, thank you for the tech support so far. The size of the garage not withstanding, I want enough clean power to drive my large speakers near their limits without destroying anything. The old sharp amplifier claimed 300 watts, and was designed to drive 2 of them near their limits.

if it's this nice saturday, I am definitely going.

Smaller wire MAY heat up under high current loads, thus being a safety concern. FIFY, I've seen several installs done with quite small (but high quality) primary wire, and have no issues whatsoever with wires heating up.

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That's your perogative, I've just always preferred to run much smaller cables on my installs, and have had no problems doing so.

it's all about wattage. and most of the people I've talked to agree that 4ga wire is severe overkill on a 600 watt amp.

I don't know, this is part of the reason I directed this to EEs. (figuring they had expeience with them/knowledge of them) This was one of the pitfalls I was fearing.

so the 950 watt computer power supply wouldn't provide enough power to drive the amp? I'm just confused where the batteries come into play. I had also considered a "battery solution" using a decent car battery and a gold series alternator hooked to a 120v electric motor, large and industrious, but effective if I did my calculations correctly. i figured a computer power supply would eliminate those components (battery, charging system, capacitor, etc)

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thank you very much rawlins, you've been very helpful through this whole thread. I think i'll be scanning ebay and CL for that crown 600, seems like an awesome unit.

again, I've only got the 4 big speakers, if unevenly loaded, would the 5.1 system be damaged?

This is one of my concerns. By the numbers it should work out fine, as far as I can tell . if I change gears and go with a 120 v system, what are the best brands?

cheap as possible, that bench 12v will run under $300 for 800 watts of juice, and 600 watts of amplification. That would leave me a couple hundred watts to add a head unit to this setup, too easier to control volume, cd/mp3 input, aux input, and a radio tuner. btw, this whole system is going in a garage.

correct expectations as far as I can tell. 3 hesitations with this idea: 1. I don't recognize the brand 2. A little pricey 3. being 5 channel, if I only hook up 4 speakers would the uneven load damage this amp?

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you said it brother. fonzies mock up is turning out to be a real hassle.

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I'm all about it, the hardest part for me is making sure you don't screw your brake rotors when you're prying a tire on or off. you may want to make or buy one of these wheel locking stands to save your components from damage. For balancing, I bought a static balancer from a member here, it was cheap and it works pretty well.

Hey guys, I have 4 large speakers that I'd like to drive. they are large box speakers contiaining a large driver (2 are 15's, 2 are 12's) a midrange speaker, and a small tweeter. I want good clarity, I want it loud, and I want to be able to drive it constantly loud (no overheating, frying circuits, etc) No regard for my hearing. I had a 300w amplifier that came with the stereo, but somehow it got fried (it's 20 years old, so not really surprised) and I thnk it was only originally designed to drive 2 of the speakers (though it had connections for 4) I'm having a hard time finding a 120 v amplifier with the kind of power I want to produce. My experience is primarily car audio, so my mind went initially to this... then in order to give this thing enough clean 12v power, I was thinking of a high end computer power supply like this.. http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0290512 build a box, throw in some computer cooling fans for good measure. anyone see any pitfalls I might run into with this? anyone know of any good quality 120v amplifiers or recievers with 500 - 1000 watt 4 channel outputs?

home depot or lowes might have mirror stock, and be able to cut to suit.

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either/both

I like the date. Doubt there will be too much else going on.

neither did I until last night at midnight.

I'd be interested in this, have been meaning to get some track time since I got my bike almost 3 years ago.