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<blockquote data-quote="BigDrez" data-source="post: 1744259" data-attributes="member: 567991"><p>OK...I recently purchased two Kicker Solo Baric 12&#039;&#039; L7&#039;s with dual 4 ohm voice coils...one of my questions is this...The amp that I am looking at is a Hifonics Zues Zxi 1006 2 channel amplifier...it will be running at 500 watts RMS to each speaker if I run them at 2 ohms...which I was planning on doing...however...I was doing this only to break them in...I was planning on a couple months down the road purchasing another amp so that I could bridge and max each amp to each speaker...it says it will then be running 1000 watts rms to each speaker at 4 ohms...and it says Min. Impedance for bridging and maxing is at 4 ohms...does this mean that if I bridge and max my amp that I can not run it at 2 ohms and would HAVE to run it at 4? it does not give a spec for the RMS rating for running at 2 ohms for being bridged and maxed...and when it said the Min. Imp. is 4 ohms for being bridged that got me thinking... My second question is this...Ok..I have two subwoofers obviously and was curious that if I went the direction of a class D mono channel amp how would this work when I would need two channels? I know you can OBVIOUSLY do it because I have numerous friends that have done it...but my question is...what does the power rating become? For example...if I went the direction of getting a Mono channel amp that was 1600 watts RMS at 2 ohms...what would the general power rating be if I hooked up 2 speakers to it?...any and all help would be greatly appreciated....thanks in advance....</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="BigDrez, post: 1744259, member: 567991"] OK...I recently purchased two Kicker Solo Baric 12'' L7's with dual 4 ohm voice coils...one of my questions is this...The amp that I am looking at is a Hifonics Zues Zxi 1006 2 channel amplifier...it will be running at 500 watts RMS to each speaker if I run them at 2 ohms...which I was planning on doing...however...I was doing this only to break them in...I was planning on a couple months down the road purchasing another amp so that I could bridge and max each amp to each speaker...it says it will then be running 1000 watts rms to each speaker at 4 ohms...and it says Min. Impedance for bridging and maxing is at 4 ohms...does this mean that if I bridge and max my amp that I can not run it at 2 ohms and would HAVE to run it at 4? it does not give a spec for the RMS rating for running at 2 ohms for being bridged and maxed...and when it said the Min. Imp. is 4 ohms for being bridged that got me thinking... My second question is this...Ok..I have two subwoofers obviously and was curious that if I went the direction of a class D mono channel amp how would this work when I would need two channels? I know you can OBVIOUSLY do it because I have numerous friends that have done it...but my question is...what does the power rating become? For example...if I went the direction of getting a Mono channel amp that was 1600 watts RMS at 2 ohms...what would the general power rating be if I hooked up 2 speakers to it?...any and all help would be greatly appreciated....thanks in advance.... [/QUOTE]

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