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<blockquote data-quote="PatHastings" data-source="post: 7344633" data-attributes="member: 633576">One of my friends recently asked me to install subs in their car. He said he was looking at pawn shops for the parts to do it so I&#039;m assuming hes taking whatever he can get.I have never done any car audio setups before so I have read a few pages on the setup of the amp and it seems pretty basic. Now what I can&#039;t seem to get my mind around is wiring the actual subs.So basically what I understood from various pages is that you want to try to match your subs and amp impedance level as closely as possible. So (to keep it simple) if you have a single channel amp with a 4 Ohm max then you can get a sub with 4+ Ohms, but you could not get a single 2 Ohm sub, but you could get two and wire them in series to match the 4 Ohms on the amp?Read over ^ and it just sounds wrong... and I went back and found that there are watts too... anyone have any good pages that can explain this to me? Going to keep reading let you know if I get it...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PatHastings, post: 7344633, member: 633576"] One of my friends recently asked me to install subs in their car. He said he was looking at pawn shops for the parts to do it so I'm assuming hes taking whatever he can get. I have never done any car audio setups before so I have read a few pages on the setup of the amp and it seems pretty basic. Now what I can't seem to get my mind around is wiring the actual subs. So basically what I understood from various pages is that you want to try to match your subs and amp impedance level as closely as possible. So (to keep it simple) if you have a single channel amp with a 4 Ohm max then you can get a sub with 4+ Ohms, but you could not get a single 2 Ohm sub, but you could get two and wire them in series to match the 4 Ohms on the amp? Read over ^ and it just sounds wrong... and I went back and found that there are watts too... anyone have any good pages that can explain this to me? Going to keep reading let you know if I get it... [/QUOTE]

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