760 watt pioneer amp

[o6blink 10+ year member]

I'm in the process of hooking up my two Sony Xplod 10" 4ohm 1200 watt subs into my old school Pioneer 760 watt 2 channel amp. The problem is that two of the screws are missing out of the amp. Is it ok if I hook it up like this (below)? I'm not sure if this two channel amp will support the 2 ohm mono operation since the two 4 ohm subs wired in parallel will present a 2 ohm mono load to the amp. Thanks for any help.

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[brokeitagain 10+ year member]

that amp will almost immediately shut down @ 2 ohms

i use two of those in my 95 Grand am to run the 6x9's in the rear deck, one for each channel

The rms power on those is only 380x1 @ 4 ohms

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

that amp will almost immediately shut down @ 2 ohms

Shut down would be the best result IMO. The other being letting out the white smoke.

 

[dB-SPL 10+ year member]

Specs are 2 x 125W @ 4-Ohm, 2 x 190W @ 2-Ohm, 1 x 380W @ 4-Ohm. Your only option (if you want to do it the right way) is to use both channels since they're single coil subs.

-Bill-

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

If you want the amp to be stable just step the subs up to 8 ohm and bridge the amp...each sub will see about 125 each...amp will be stable all day long //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif another and even better option is trade the extra Sony and that box to someone for a decent quality ported box and run 1 sub...ported...It will be louder than the 2 subs sealed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[o6blink 10+ year member]

I made the box ported not sealed, I just took a picture of the subs.

 

[Kold_Killa 10+ year member]

Go to the hardware store with one of those screws, find a nut that it will screw into... See what size the nut is, then buy 2 screws that size... then you have all the screws and you can just hook into both channels... but the 8ohm bridged idea would work just as well.