boston acoustic sl60 power

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Topic: boston acoustic sl60 power

Posted By: 98k1500chevy
Subject: boston acoustic sl60 power
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 12:51 PM

i've heard that most of boston acoustics products are well underrated and can handle a lot more power than what the specs say. Does any one hear have the sl60 comps from them? they are rated at 80 watts rms each side and 220 peak, how much rms do you think they could handle before pushing the limits too far? thanks guys

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Posted By: sedate
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM

I think you'd make yourself deaf if you got much farther than 80watts from a coaxial like that.

Boston speakers are well built however - I'd run anything up to 150~200watts as long as I knew my signal wasn't clipped.

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Posted By: 98k1500chevy
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM

well its not a coaxial its actually a component setup with woofer tweet and passive crossovers. but i was thinking about giving each side about 160 rms

Posted By: chillin420
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM

shouldnt hurt them.. i am running some trpe r components 5 1/4 set and i am pumping 125 rms to them and they are cleaner than snot... and loud as heck too.. so you should be fine aroundthere ...

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Posted By: sedate
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 1:51 PM

chillin420 wrote:

cleaner than snot

Lovely analogy.

1500chevy wrote:

well its not a coaxial its actually a component setup with woofer tweet and passive crossovers. but i was thinking about giving each side about 160 rms

posted_image I thought the sl was the coaxial . . . oh well.

No matter - and seriously that's even better - passive xovers suck up lotsa watts - 160rms should motivate them quite nicely.

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Posted By: chillin420
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM

lol you like that i have quite the nack for cursing so i just put something else real quick so i didnt get in trouble...

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you can do it....
advanced MECP, lol does it really matter....
patience is a virtue

Posted By: 98k1500chevy
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM

so somewhere around 160 shouldn't hurt them at all even though its twice the rated wattage?

Posted By: willdkartunes
Date Posted: March 29, 2008 at 9:57 PM

It shouldn't hurt them provided the signal is not clipped....... however, I do agree that you will probably go deaf. What is the reason for running that much power to them? 125rms is generally the average for a decent set of components, so anything more than that and I have to wonder whether you value hearing! posted_image

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