Quote Originally Posted by MLA View Post
Its only 200W rms to an 8", thats a good spot. However, the M800/8 is a poor way to go IMO. 1) you end up running all 8 chnl at their minimum load, just to get that 200W from each pair of bridged chnls. 2) in order to configure this setup correctly, You have to populate all 8 inputs. The DSP MVi series is a different scenario.

Now, before someone pops in to say "the amp works with only a single pair of RCA", yes it does, but its less then ideal. And "Supra only used a single pair of RCA" yep, and Nautique also ran this amp setup poorly. JL's own literature outlines it.

For the money, there are 2 chnl marine amps with more wattage output that are not going to require a pile or RCA Y cables to make it right.
I am not sure why JL does this for Supra and Nautique as they are the ones designing and tuning these systems for each model boat.

But JL is using the mvi amps now.

Supra currently uses the following.....

M800/8mvi for 4 8.8 towers
M800/8mvi for 2 8.8, 2 7.7 and 2 6.5 in boats
M1000/1mvi for 2 12” subs.

JL personnel are supposed to custom tune each boat at Skier’s choice.


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