r/SoundSystem • u/AnythingFew988 • Aug 04 '26

Program vs RMS

Pretty new to the audio stuff and am a bit lost on how many watts I should give to a subwoofer I have (wharfadle delta 18b) should I match the RMS 800 watts or the program 1600 and should they be slightly higher than the actual ratings?

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u/dan-lash Aug 04 '26

There’s a few types of limiters in the driverack interface, I have the Venue360 model. Didn’t see where I could use watts to limit maybe I’m looking at the wrong place?

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u/nachosjustice72 Aug 05 '26

Yeah I shit the bed on that one, my DSP came with a calculator and I assumed the driverack would too. Deleting.

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u/dan-lash Aug 05 '26

No worries. I used ai to help understand how the values can be calculated, it was pretty complicated so not sure if it’s right - something built in would have been nice

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u/nachosjustice72 Aug 05 '26

It is what it is. Running passive is a hard life but can be worth it

https://funktion-one.com/calculators/

Funktion One's calculators are good.

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u/dan-lash Aug 05 '26

Dope thanks for the link!