pioneer 400 watt amp to 8 speakers??

[tresvatos 10+ year member]

I have a pioneer 400 watt amplifier that is supposed to be 4 channel at 2ohms, and I have 8 polk audio speakers rated at 4ohms each. Can I hook a pair parallel to each of the four channels so that the amp. sees 2ohms on each channel? Also would it help to use a farad cap with the amp.?

Thanks for your help...

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[MakeshiftAudio 10+ year member]

Yes.

No, you need a flux capacitor, and I don't mean a pocket with change in it.

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

i agree...you can do that...just make sure you get a fan to cool off your amp...its probably going to run a little hotter than usual

 

[tresvatos 10+ year member]

So this setup should work? A flux capicitor???? isn't that from back to the future??

 

[ampjunkielikeme 10+ year member]

So this setup should work? A flux capicitor???? isn't that from back to the future??

yes," flux capacitor"its a joke.....lol you dont need a capacitor...i would run another battery before i would buy a cap...

and yes your amp will be fine running it at 2 ohms each channel...

 

[tresvatos 10+ year member]

Thanks for the help everyone..

 

[tresvatos 10+ year member]

This is the amplifier I have . Please let me know if you think it will be OK with 8 speakers wired to 4 channels parallel. The amp will see 2ohms on each of the four channels. Thanks

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Should be, you just won't get much power out of it. 25w per spkr maybe?

 

[tresvatos 10+ year member]

I have a pioneer 50x4 headunit. Would it be better to run two pair on the pioneer headunit and then the other two pair on the amp, or would this leed to a bunch of out of sync wattage wise speakers? Thanks for the input.. Greg

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

that would work too. I don't think anything being "out of sync" would be a problem.