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<blockquote data-quote="stylez777" data-source="post: 4913016" data-attributes="member: 575311">My purpose is to get more power to my front components.&nbsp; My amp is rated 4x130 1x400 @ 4ohm, 4 x 240 1x 500 @ 2ohm&nbsp; and 3 x 400 @ 4ohm bridged.Before I did all this I figured bridgeing the amp would be viable so i could send 400 watts to each of the fornt speakers and then send 400 to the sub (of course i&#039;d be way over powering the front speakers but fig i could set the gains to get the desired amount of watts)&nbsp; after doing more reading and seeing that it would be mono going to my speakers seems like it&#039;s not a good idea.My head unit has 4v preouts and i believe the amp has max 5v inputs, think i read somewhere that the HU wouldn&#039;t be able to fully suply the amp with the desired volts so the amp could suply the desired watts cleanly to the speakers.&nbsp; meanign i&#039;ll never get the full wattage from the amp.&nbsp; this true?Anyhow, more reading lead me to possibly wiring the speaker in parallel mode to so the amp would run a 2ohm impeadance (which it is capable of doing) so I can get the more watts I want to the front speakers.&nbsp; I read that wiring 2 4ohm speakers in parrallel would create the 2ohm load on the amp. So my questions would be:1: Would this be ok to do since they are not 2ohm speakers?2: To wire them parallel would be just taking the positve from both speakers and the negative form both speakers and connect them to the pos and neg of just 1 channel?3: Wiring them up like this affect when i add my sub? Would i have to wire that for 2ohm also or would the amp be able to do both at the same time?4: Assuming i am correct on question 3 would this be a waste to do since i&#039;d have 3 open channels with nothing to use them for?Very newbish questions I know but i&#039;m trying to learn as i go and the more i read i think the more the info is meshing and I might not be fully understanding.&nbsp; Again any help is appreciated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stylez777, post: 4913016, member: 575311"] My purpose is to get more power to my front components. My amp is rated 4x130 1x400 @ 4ohm, 4 x 240 1x 500 @ 2ohm and 3 x 400 @ 4ohm bridged. Before I did all this I figured bridgeing the amp would be viable so i could send 400 watts to each of the fornt speakers and then send 400 to the sub (of course i'd be way over powering the front speakers but fig i could set the gains to get the desired amount of watts) after doing more reading and seeing that it would be mono going to my speakers seems like it's not a good idea. My head unit has 4v preouts and i believe the amp has max 5v inputs, think i read somewhere that the HU wouldn't be able to fully suply the amp with the desired volts so the amp could suply the desired watts cleanly to the speakers. meanign i'll never get the full wattage from the amp. this true? Anyhow, more reading lead me to possibly wiring the speaker in parallel mode to so the amp would run a 2ohm impeadance (which it is capable of doing) so I can get the more watts I want to the front speakers. I read that wiring 2 4ohm speakers in parrallel would create the 2ohm load on the amp. So my questions would be: 1: Would this be ok to do since they are not 2ohm speakers? 2: To wire them parallel would be just taking the positve from both speakers and the negative form both speakers and connect them to the pos and neg of just 1 channel? 3: Wiring them up like this affect when i add my sub? Would i have to wire that for 2ohm also or would the amp be able to do both at the same time? 4: Assuming i am correct on question 3 would this be a waste to do since i'd have 3 open channels with nothing to use them for? Very newbish questions I know but i'm trying to learn as i go and the more i read i think the more the info is meshing and I might not be fully understanding. Again any help is appreciated. [/QUOTE]

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