do I need bigger amp?

[daboyfrumdabx 10+ year member]

Where is the amp grounded too?

 

[thegreatestpenn 5,000+ posts]

its not the amp, its user error. /thread

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

Well then you probably need somthin bigger lol

 

[iLL Ridge 10+ year member]

You may not have the voltage to keep the amp pumping full tilt at 1ohm, it's going into protect briefly. My rsd does the same thing when I go full tilt at 1 ohm. My amp is only rated for 2ohms though. What's your voltage drop?

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

explodes

 

[plugitin 5,000+ posts]

I want

 

[mclerico83 5,000+ posts]

new amp or new subs, id suggest subs as those sony's are garbage and the alpine is a great amp

 

[mclerico83 5,000+ posts]

http://www.edesignaudio.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_21&products_id=782

pop 2 of these in and they will blow away those 3 sony's

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

imp rise will keep the amp above a 2 ohm load.

You can't make that assertion with any degree of certainty. Based on how his amp is behaving I would hold that to not be the case.

Plus I would also guess that the subs dont read exactly 4 ohms, they probably sit higher...I could be wrong though.

I've never seen a 4 ohm speaker that "read" higher than the nominal impedance. Doesn't work that way. Re, what you actually read on a DMM, is always lower than the nominal impedance.