> There are some drivers large enough that they can withstand this power level indefinitely. The car audio market has some pretty crazy designs.

I wonder how true the claims really are. Rod E. of sound-au.com even questions the claims. I see some cheap "1500" watt RMS 8 ohm speakers for like 150 bucks, might be a good test, plug it into the wall through a variac and turn up the power to the full 1500W and see how long it lasts. I am too lazy to look right now but I am sure someone has tried this and put up a video.

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bob1029 an hour ago | parent [-]

Here is an example of what I am referring to:

https://emaudio.com/product/12-custom-hand-built-subwoofer-8...

These competition grade units would probably trip your breaker before they burn up.

	▲	MisterTea an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. Those dual 1 or 2 ohm coils, even in series, would pull 30 and 60 amps respectively at 120 VAC. You could feed it from a two pole 60 or 125 amp breaker though at 1 ohm it would pull 14400 W and likely not last very long. I still would still like to see how long a so called 8 ohm 1500W speaker will survive on 100-120 VAC mains.