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There's one more variable nobody is accounting for and that's the recording studio volume. That's why you don't typically get "600 watts" with "100%" volume. Some tracks yes, some tracks no, some make it even worse. It's all dependent on the amplitude of the incoming signal and that directly correlates to the gain knob as well. It's typically the poorly recorded tracks that are clipping your signal significantly and the end user still turns up to 100% which is actually a highly distorted and very much clipped signal because the recording amplitude is different than what's expected(whether higher or lower). And an "underpowered" sub is not ruined because it's not getting enough power. It would only ever get ruined with distortion and clipping. The end user who thinks that gain = volume is the culprit...not an amp that puts out a clean 30watts vs. a clean 4.2 jigawatts. Overpowering a sub WILL hurt a voice coil. One more time, the primary culprits, assuming everything works right, are misunderstood gains, poorly recorded tracks, or install.
That's why customer service is such a B. in car audio. The manufacturer knows this but the audience doesn't.
