2 chan amp powerin 4 speakers

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

Hey. I own a 96 Pontiac sunfire. I have a 2 channel amp. I was wondering if i could run my front two off of one channel and my 2 rear speakers off of my 2nd channel. I would wire them so the two pair are 2 ohm. Would this work? The amp is 2 ohm stable, so that wouldn't be a prob. my amp is a Power Acoustik Gothic OV2-820. Thanks for any help or ideas. I have a small car, with 4x6's in the front and 6x9's in the rear, so i'd like to have all four powered with the amp...

Another question...i know i *can*...but would it be better to put my 6x9's in the front, and just forget about the rear? I know i could just power the front two, but i'm sure the 6x9's would do better with the only ones being amped instead of my 4x6's. Both are pioneer, not sure of the power ratings. So, what should i do? Thank for the help/ideas.

-Dave

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Hey. I own a 96 Pontiac sunfire. I have a 2 channel amp. I was wondering if i could run my front two off of one channel and my 2 rear speakers off of my 2nd channel. I would wire them so the two pair are 2 ohm. Would this work?

Functionally it would work (nothing would explode). But, doing that would lose stereo sound, which will sound horrible.

If you want to power all 4 speakers off of a 2 channel amp, a better idea would be to power both left side speakers (front and rear) off of one channel, and the two right side speakers (front and rear) off of the other channel //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

So, what should i do?

Depends on what you are looking for. If you just want loud(er), clean sound....you would be better of amping all 4 speakers in the manor I mentioned above.

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Is it a decent amp? Many will allow for tri-way bridging, which gets more complicated, but you could literally run your entire system on a single 2-channel amp, including a subwoofer. If it can do it, you'd run your stereo speakers as squeak described, but add a passive high-pass filter on each of the channels going to your mains (to keep the ultra-low bass from eating your full-range drivers) then also bridge the amp into a single efficient subwoofer with another passive crossover for low-pass to it.

I had an 85 toyota 4-Runner "monster truck" a long while back with a single Orion SX 2-channel amp running raw separates: (2) 4" mids, (2) 6" midbass, (4) 1" tweets, and (2) 8" subwoofers, all getting appropriate amount of power via the tri-way mode. Every speaker had its own hand-built 2nd order passive crossover on it. The system was a bit of a pain to tune because each frequency adjustment required me to build a new cap/coil crossover, but when it was done, the results were truly impressive.

Another thing to consider is front stage. You may find that the best sound comes from just powering the front speakers with the amp and either not using rear speakers at all, or powering them from the deck only, just for a little rear fill for the back passengers. Just thought I'd toss that out.

Cheers.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

thanks guys. I'm gonna listen to it with the front powered and the rear off the deck, then vise versa. Then all four. And sqeak, thanks for the heads up on the front/rear-left/right thing.

And ****, hiamp...thats pretty f'in impressive. musta been a massive 2 chan amp.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

I say just amp your fronts, much simpler and will pobably sound best.