Can you overpower a speaker


Hi there I am curious if it is possible to overpower a speaker. I want to bridge 2 200 watt a channel amps that are stable to one ohm into a pair of legacy focus 20/20's or a pair of mezzo utopias.

Id love to go VTL MB450's but man thats expensive, im sure worth it. I have read up and down the conrad johnson mf 200 is 2 and one ohm stable and if it can be bridged would put out whatever the wall will allow. I want ungodly amounts of power is that so bad? will it work.
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Showing 2 responses by hifihvn

I haven't heard an amp in bridge mode sound as good as it doesin its normal mode.Then there's the other minus like Stanwal brought up.An amp that could run at 4 ohms continuous,will only be capable of 8 ohms continuous,in bridged mode.As far as having to much power,its what you do with the volume control that matters.If you hear the least bit of something that is not right,back the volume down.It's real easy to blow speakers with an underpowered amp.An underpowered amp can go DC on you and feed the power supply voltage to your speakers and fry them.
Let me ad this.I should have also said to much power can fry your speakers to.Not just to little power.Again,keeping the volume set where you don't get any distortion,or other sounds coming out of your speakers,that sound wrong when you start playing them to loud.When something starts sounding bad,back the volume down,until it sounds right.