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does this mean recommened or at least??

 
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It means that is the maximum power that woofer can handle thermally with a 5hhz note for 24 hours without melting the Voice COil..[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]

 
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so to the simple minded guys like myself.........the most power you can put to the speakers for a long period of time for the subs to perform normally. Now i don't know alot of people who run subs for that long so i guess that just a kinda safety thing and its ok to go over that but not over the max for the subs

 
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Generally for music most subs can take about 150% thier rated RMS handling power..Music is Dynamic and not constant so it allws for some cooling..

 
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would that 150% rule hold true for the Infinity Kappa perfect 12.1?

I keep hearing people are push 800 - 1000 watts into them......I think that'd be a little excessive for me, but I was hoping to put 600 watts RMS into a pair hooked up in parallel (2 ohms).

 
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when people talk about perfects, and taking alot of power, most of the time its SQ audiophiles talking. when they say get an amp for a sub they will usually tell you to get over double the power for the sub.

this doesnt mean they give that sub that power! what it means is they turn the gain up till teh sub is pushing full Xmax. still sounds clean cause the amp isnt stressing at ALL.

when someone like you or me hook is up, we'll generally turn it up as high as we can, far past its mechanical limits, and destroy the sub within a matter of months, sometimes weeks.

the standard setup is a pair of perfects and a JBL 1200.1. why? a fantastic amount of headroom! you can push teh subs to xmax easily and the amp will keep it dead clean, but the gains will be way down.

unfortunately for teh average enthusiast, the temptation to turn the gain up to distortion is too great to resist, and you hear a bunch of stories (especially on this forum) of people blowing these subs cause they pushed them too hard.

unless you are an audiophile to the point where you can keep the gain at a clean level, I'd reccommend trying to stay close to the actual powerhandling of your bottom end.

 
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I was thinking of hooking a audiobahn A1300HQ up to a pair of perfects wired in parallel.

I haven't researched the whole gain/amp settings.... So assuming I just hooked it up and set the gains at what a reasonable person around here suggested and never played around with it... would I be able to push the 600 watts into them without blowing them..??

I'm looking mainly for SQ... with some bump (I'm currently running 460 watts bridged off of a Kenwood KAC-929 into one perfect at 4 ohms, I'm thinking I wan't some more bump out of a pair of the perfects)