Im looking to downgrade from my current setup considering all the damage that im doing to my car and myself. I was going to do maybe a 1.3-1.5 cube sealed with a 12" SSD and power it with a d3400.2 at 2 ohm. It puts out 800 max at 2 ohm and i think its a little under-rated. Would this work well, im shooting for SQ without so much overly powering bass.

Rock and Metal are my major listening habits btw

400W @ 2ohm should be all you see, max ratings mean nothing

it was pushing 400 at 4 ohm so it whould be good. and yes i dmm'd it to find out

dmm with an oscope? how exactly did you determine you were getting 400W?

voltage squared divided by the ohms

my knowlege only goes so far but you were probably clipping the hell out of it and not getting real "power".

bass boost was off and the gain was at less than a quarter, even then i dont want to push to much power anyway.

my other option is about 1000 watts at 4 ohm that i know for a fact doesnt clip and pushes the powe easily. its done so for my 15 and my rl-i 8s

You can't measure power with a DMM only voltage.

my other option is about 1000 watts at 4 ohm that i know for a fact doesnt clip and pushes the powe easily. its done so for my 15 and my rl-i 8s

not with the 3400.2 lol

american bass sq880

http://www.americanbassusa.com/sq880.html sorry man but unless they're hella underrated you're only looking at about half that at 4ohm

those specs are way off.....

So you know of someone that has benched it?

Also do you understand the difference between RMS and max specs?

I don't know much about american bass amps but i doubt they're going the old skool way of cheater amps.

Even with a perfectly unclipped signal, a DMM won't tell you the whole story...

A DMM didn't tell me I had a 10 ohm impedance rise and was only sending 200W to the woofer during a burp

Even with a perfectly unclipped signal, a DMM won't tell you the whole story...

A DMM didn't tell me I had a 10 ohm impedance rise and was only sending 200W to the woofer during a burp

RIckRolled, what did tell you that?

I would seriously doubt that amps putting out twice the rated power...

Putting a clamp meter on the outputs.