Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="I&amp;amp;lt;3AudioTechnix" data-source="post: 7820481" data-attributes="member: 643155">Holy cow.... No idea what ohms are? I strongly suggest you hang around this site for another month or so just to get a bit more acquainted with the world of car audio. I assure you you won&#039;t regret it, and it could open up your mind to a lot more product suggestions. And you&#039;ll save another months worth of money for your budget.A simple google search would have sufficed, it would have came up with several hundred thousands websites with a bevy of information for you.However, to buff up on your car audio (and ohm) knowledge, I&#039;d strongly recommend reading through this site: <a href="http://www.bcae1.com/" target="_blank">Basic Car Audio Electronics</a>That will help you grasp the basics of car audio, that you&#039;re going to need to know for the future.In short, Ohms are a measure of electrical resistance. It&#039;s common practice to wire your subwoofer stage to a final load of 1 ohm, because that&#039;s the level most amplifiers make their optimal power at. If that is what your amplifier makes ideal power at, then you&#039;ll want to wire to 1 ohm. To do that, you first need to know how many subwoofers you are running. If you&#039;re running a single subwoofer, you need a Dual 2ohm woofer (D2). If you&#039;re running two subwoofers, you&#039;ll need Dual 4 ohm (D4) woofers.Don&#039;t question how it works, just know that it does. If you want to know more, read the site I linked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I<3AudioTechnix, post: 7820481, member: 643155"] Holy cow.... No idea what ohms are? I strongly suggest you hang around this site for another month or so just to get a bit more acquainted with the world of car audio. I assure you you won't regret it, and it could open up your mind to a lot more product suggestions. And you'll save another months worth of money for your budget. A simple google search would have sufficed, it would have came up with several hundred thousands websites with a bevy of information for you. However, to buff up on your car audio (and ohm) knowledge, I'd strongly recommend reading through this site: [URL="http://www.bcae1.com/"]Basic Car Audio Electronics[/URL] That will help you grasp the basics of car audio, that you're going to need to know for the future. [B]In short, Ohms are a measure of electrical resistance.[/B] It's common practice to wire your subwoofer stage to a final load of 1 ohm, because that's the level most amplifiers make their optimal power at. If that is what your amplifier makes ideal power at, then you'll want to wire to 1 ohm. To do that, you first need to know how many subwoofers you are running. If you're running a single subwoofer, you need a Dual 2ohm woofer (D2). If you're running two subwoofers, you'll need Dual 4 ohm (D4) woofers. Don't question how it works, just know that it does. If you want to know more, read the site I linked. [/QUOTE]

Verification