choices, choices - rear fill or no?

[percept 10+ year member]

I'm picking up a set of Hertz ESK-165 for my front-stage later on today. These will be replacing my PG RSD65CS. I'm running them off a Cadence TXA-3004. I'm faced with two choices:

1. install the PG's for my rear fill and send 75 watts to all four channels.

2. ditch the PG's and leave rear fill empty and send all the power, bridged, to the ESK's in the front.

couple dumb questions:

according to the specs sheet, bridging would yield 300 watts @ 4ohms. is that right? would that be overpowering the esk's?

p.s. i don't plan on running active or buying a new amp any time soon.

thanks in advance.

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[eharri3 10+ year member]

Try it first bridged to the front stage, dial back the gain if anything sounds bad, drive around like that for awhile. See how it sounds. Decide for yourself if you want to degrade that for the sake of rear fill.