Putting in an amp for speakers

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

I'm trying to put in an amp for 4 speakers and 2 tweeters. They all have 40w RMS. How should i go about wiring this up?

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[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

Some options:

4-channel amp: 1 channel per 3-way speaker, leave current stock tweeters alone

2-channel amp: 1 channel per front 3-way speaker, HU power to rear speakers

To drive the tweeters correctly you would need to add a crossover to each front channel- this would be unorthodox to do with 3-ways.

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

I bought Infinity tweeters, they have crossovers with them, My tweeters are already wired with my front speakers. If i have my tweeters connected with my front speakers, would that power them less, or is there a way to make more power come out of 2 channels and less come out of the other 2?

 

[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

As far as I know, no there is not a way to take power from one channel and give it to another channel. Bridging would be the closest thing but that's irrelevant atm. So at this moment, for each door you have a crossover connected to your infinity tweeter and to the stock midrange speaker? Or your infinities are sitting?

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

btw my speakers are 4 ohm and my tweeters are 2 ohm

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

my speakers are pioneers 40w rms, not stock

and the crossover is only on my tweeters

 

[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

No I'm asking what exactly is installed right now?

And what model are your infinities?

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

4channel amp you can wire the pioneers down to 2 ohm, run 2 off each channel, then run the tweeters on the 2 remaining channels.

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

Yes it is installed, Infinity 10.9T

and how do i wire my speakers to 2 ohm?

this amp looks perfect

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[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

4channel amp you can wire the pioneers down to 2 ohm, run 2 off each channel, then run the tweeters on the 2 remaining channels.

If you do this, your fader or balance settings will become funky, eh?

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

If you match up the channels it shouldn't.

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

What do you mean match up the channels?

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

If channel 1 and channel 2 are for the musics left channel, then you put the speakers and tweeters on those two. You don't want 2 pairs of speakers on the left channel and the 2 tweets on the right.

 

[Jake Cooley 10+ year member]

Ahhh. Thank you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

If you put the left-side, front and rear speakers on one channel, you will lose the ability to fade from rear to front. Am I incorrect? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif