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<blockquote data-quote="QuikSilverRS91" data-source="post: 1056396" data-attributes="member: 552763">Yeah it saves you time but lets see...If you tie the rears and fronts together and then run wire directly from the amp to the rears, it would be only two channels you smart ***.If you&#039;re looping the left front off the left rear, you can only control the whole loop as one, and same for the right.ALSO, lets think about timing.&nbsp; If you wire directly to the rears from the amp with lets say 16 awg wire like he probably will, thats about 3 feet of 16 awg wire.&nbsp; Pretty good.But now if you loop the front through the rears, the signal has to travel throught the 3 ft of 16awg wire, another 17 feet of about 18-20awg factory wire to the head unit, and then about another 14 feet of 18-20awg factory wire to the fronts.&nbsp; The smaller wire has a higher resistance... this creates a small delay between when the signal reaches the fronts and when it reaches the rear, not to mention putting a nice fat strain on the amp that doesn&#039;t need to be there.&nbsp; Why do it half assed?&nbsp; If you run all 4 sets of wires up behind the deck then you can control each individual speaker.&nbsp; You can&#039;t do that with that haggard looping method you call an install.Being that it is a BMW.... My advice is just to run wire directly from the amp to the speakers - it will take a little longer but in the long run you know it was done right and with quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuikSilverRS91, post: 1056396, member: 552763"] Yeah it saves you time but lets see... If you tie the rears and fronts together and then run wire directly from the amp to the rears, it would be only two channels you smart ***. If you're looping the left front off the left rear, you can only control the whole loop as one, and same for the right. ALSO, lets think about timing. If you wire directly to the rears from the amp with lets say 16 awg wire like he probably will, thats about 3 feet of 16 awg wire. Pretty good. But now if you loop the front through the rears, the signal has to travel throught the 3 ft of 16awg wire, another 17 feet of about 18-20awg factory wire to the head unit, and then about another 14 feet of 18-20awg factory wire to the fronts. The smaller wire has a higher resistance... this creates a small delay between when the signal reaches the fronts and when it reaches the rear, not to mention putting a nice fat strain on the amp that doesn't need to be there. Why do it half assed? If you run all 4 sets of wires up behind the deck then you can control each individual speaker. You can't do that with that haggard looping method you call an install. Being that it is a BMW.... My advice is just to run wire directly from the amp to the speakers - it will take a little longer but in the long run you know it was done right and with quality. [/QUOTE]

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