Quote Originally Posted by industrialfish View Post
He said maximum aka peak. An amps peak is pretty much always more than double it's RMS anyway. Most 12V audio has an RMS rating for both subs and amps so match those up. You can blow a 2000w RMS sub with 500w RMS amp if you introduce enough clipping or too much gain or your ohms are mismatched etc.

To be blunt, you can safely run any wattage amp with any wattage sub if you know what you are doing. Safely, but not efficiently. A 20,000w amp going to a 200w sub is going to sound the same as a 200w amp going to a 200w sub if you properly set your gains.
My problems is I have a 2500 watt RMS sub 5000 max. Its a dual 2 ohm and I wanna pick out a good amp but I'm not sure if I should get a 2500 RMS amp. Would that basically push the sub to the max? Then I know amps and subs are underrated most most the time, making it a little more confusing.