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Author: Rick Formosa/mad89.

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Amplifier mounting is often a hotly contested debate. Do i mount it under the seats? What about in the boot, on the back of the back seats? What about making a custom false floor and mounting them flat over the spare wheel? Or on the back of the subbox?

Often, most of these methods will be 'fine' as the amp will work 'fine' and you may never touch it or look at it again, once the gains, crossovers and other settings are set. So why take consideration when mounting an amp, if it will work in any of those locations? Heres why.

Author: Matthew Towns/trism.

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I see a lot of people asking about amplifiers, and what does what, and why is a mono block better than bridged 4 channels and so on. I hope that in this tutorial I can resolve some issues regarding it. I will endeavor to explain how amplifiers work, what the terminals on them are, and other things such as speaker level input converters, and pass through RCA's as well as what all those little knobs and dials on the amps do.

Author: Matthew Towns/trism.

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Too often people are under the impression that under powering speakers is bad. This is true in a sense, but what do you think happens whenever you turn down the volume or, turn the gains down? You're essentially under powering the speakers. If speakers died whenever we turned down the volume, we would be shelling out for new ones every day.

Author: William Hamby. Originally published here.

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Think you know how loud sounds are? Think again. Take a look at this comprehensive chart showing exactly how loud (in decibels) sounds can be! Its definitely an interesting and informative read.