amp impedence

[jake760 10+ year member]

Hey, I've got a pioneer amp that can push 4 ohms bridged, 2 ohms stereo. I've got 2 svc 4 ohm subs to work with and was wondering if there is anyway to get the right impedence, like series wiring the amp or something? Or should i try to make the amp push 2 ohms bridged? The manual warns me of overheating and amplifier smoking

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[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

You can either go in series for 8 ohms, and cut the output in 1/2, or go in parallel for 2 ohms, but you'd be rolling the dice.

Pioneer's non-Premier amps are nothing special. I don't think it would go up in smoke immediately, but at reasonably high volume you will probably get thermal shutdown pretty quickly.

I ran a Zed Optidrive at 2 ohms bridged for a couple weeks while my sub amp was at the dr. and it didn't show any signs of stress at all, lesser quality amps just don't do as well.

You can try it, but if you kill it don't say you weren't warned.

 

[btlking 10+ year member]

go for 2 just watch it for a little bit watch for it to heat up really quick if it does redo it