One thing I see that has been overlooked here, Trent you are very fixated on matching rms ratting of the sub woofer to the wattage ratting of the amplifier. Music is dynamic, so it is quite rare that your amplifier will be sending 1000 watts of power to the sub woofer. Not to mention impedance rise from the enclosure etc. etc., but that is a different topic. Anyway, what I am getting at is we, for example, (SSA) have people running 2000 watt ratted amplifiers to SSA Icon's, and 1000 watt amplifiers to SSA Zcon's. Moral of the story is not to focus on matching the ratings on the amp and sub and set your amplifier gains correctly, along with the gain is not a linear adjustment to the amplifier wattage output.