Amp Rating Method

[KU40 173]

Jacob,

Are your amps rated with a reactive (nominal) load or resistive? In other words, are they made knowing a reactive load will be placed on them in normal use? This is brought up due to the number of "impedance rise" and "I can wire the 3000D to .5 ohm nominal because it will actually be above 1 once the sub is wired to it due to the rise" questions and comments.

*I am not trying to single your amplifiers out, I just wanted to know in general and since you're on the forum I figured I'd ask you.

[sundownz 197]

People worry too much about "impedance rise" due to SPL competitions, IMO.

Our amps will exceed ratings on a resistive load and can still hold up to their ratings a good bit above that on a reactive load.

[KU40 173]

I brought this up mainly for stability reasons. I'm not too worried about power output.

My thinking was that subs obviously present a reactive load and that most of the time their impedance is above the nominal (I thought it was always so until I just read your post in the other thread about the square wave use as a representative of music), so if amplifiers were rated with this in mind, they may be rated for lower than they could actually go with a resistive load for long periods.