Stop fiddling with your amplifier settings. If you treat your gain knob as a volume meter, expect speaker damage to come to you.

First of all, 99% of people out there won't need a high-output alternator. Even the more veteran ones won't need it. Hell, I have more than 2,500W of A/B power on tap and I'm just using a 120A stock alt. Then again, I don't really need to play loudly.

The only time you need a HO alternator is when you're on the LnC (SPL peeps won't need it, they're into sudden burping not prolonged usage) route and wants a stable 14V power rather than 12V. Even then, the 2V power difference gained by unregulated amplifiers isn't night and day really. A 100W amplifier might just give you an extra 20W.. and since power is exponential, that is NOT a lot.

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Stop fiddling with your amplifier settings. If you treat your gain knob as a volume meter, expect speaker damage to come to you.

First of all, 99% of people out there won't need a high-output alternator. Even the more veteran ones won't need it. Hell, I have more than 2,500W of A/B power on tap and I'm just using a 120A stock alt. Then again, I don't really need to play loudly.

The only time you need a HO alternator is when you're on the LnC (SPL peeps won't need it, they're into sudden burping not prolonged usage) route and wants a stable 14V power rather than 12V. Even then, the 2V power difference gained by unregulated amplifiers isn't night and day really. A 100W amplifier might just give you an extra 20W.. and since power is exponential, that is NOT a lot.