It's advisable to use a higher powered amp than your subs to power them, due to overhead and the amount of power the lower freq's take from an amp. Remember most amps are rated at 1Khz, and the subs run much lower than that, thus taking more power.
Is the figure 500W @ 8Ohms RMS or Program power?
If it's RMS then I'd say a 700W or 800W amp would be required to drive it with enough overhead to not clip it, which causes more damage to speaker drivers than actually over powering them.
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