I'll stand behind my original statement. Sure, if you take some rockwood amp and throw a blanket on top of it and then park it in the middle of a parking lot on a Florida July day and max the volume for 30 minutes, it's probably going to overheat.

The whole point of tuning a system is not only to get it to sound right, but to keep it within it's range of safe maximal performance as well. I've installed probably 1000 amps in my day (everything from $100 amps to $1000 amps), and have only seen a handful come back because of overheating problems. And of half of the amps that came back from that handful were because the owner took the car home and messed with all the settings themselves.


I've also seen amps that would go into protect without getting warm at all, and vice versa, amps that would melt the flesh off your fingers that would run without going into protect all day long.