Originally Posted by
jubeiaire
first you need to know of your running your 12's on solo amps or split bridging(1amp 2 speakers) and does you box have two seperate wire panels. are you using an upgraded secondary battery and or alternator, any caps on the lines what gauge wires what brand wires(yes it makes a diff)-(diff brands use diff strand counts) equalizer or sound. alpine 12 R's pass through bottom end mid bass up to middle end Low Bass so you might want to look into a non monoblock bass amp and put high freq filters on the line.
Brutus BXI-1208D
Type: Mono Block
1-Ohm Power Rating 1x1200
2-Ohm Power Rating 1x900
the 12 R's at 2x2ohm bridgable to 1ohm and 4x4ohmsbridgable to 2ohms are both rated at
SPECIFICATIONS
Power Handling
CEA-2031 Power Rating: 600 Watts
Power Range: 600 - 1800 Watts
RMS Power Handling: 600 Watts
Peak Power Handling: 1800 Watts
this means you putting 300 more rated power at all times in 2ohm mode and 600more at 1ohm mode
you cant run either speaker at 4ohms with the brutus amp or youll blow the amp and speakers. if you want help putting a set up together let me know and we can design one based off your budget