rated power

on adire's website they have a label that says Pmax, then a footnote that says all xx diameter voice coils are rated at xx watts.
is this max power or rms power?

rms, adire doesn't rate in peak

and no company should for that matter :)

it throws people off to much.. its all marketing

DITTO/\/\/\/\/\/\ There's no regulation regarding this. So, I could take a crap, connect some speaker terminals to the crap, put it in a box that reads 12,000 watts peak power!

thoes are RMS and they are probably highly underrated...adire just took an underrated RMS for the coil...so all 3" coils will have the same rating, 2 1/2 will have the same, 2" etc...

how much do you think they could take?

None of Adire's subs ever need full rms to get full ouput unless in a bad enclosure or competition system. Like for example my buddies brahma 15 in 2.25cuft. sealed only needs about 1000 wats for full output.

Note: that is the MK1... the MK2's are probably twice as efficent.

just and FYI for bjboertje
the power needed is entirely dependant on enclsore.... a brahma MK1 in a ported enclsore tuned to 50Hz needs nearly 8kw to reach full excursion... however, in most daily set ups you will not have a box tuned that high nor will you put 8kw on a 1600w rated woofer. Brahma MK1's only need 500-1000w to reach full excursion in most sealed enclsores. the smaller the enclsore (the higher the enclsore Q) the more power is needed to reach full output.