speaker wiring

[hillzz22 10+ year member]

hey,

i have a kenwood kac-829 2 channel amp that i want to run to my highs. the speakers i want to connect it to are 2 Alpine SPS-1629S and 2 Infinity 652i. I am assuming that both speakers are 4 ohm load, and should i just wire two speakers on each channel? for example, front left and back left on left channel, and front right and back right on other channel? Thanks for your help

-Aaron

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[ws140 10+ year member]

that probably is not a good idea for sound imaging and becuase it dosen't make much sense. I think you should run your front speakers off the amp and run the rear speakers off your h/u.

 

[ShaunMac 10+ year member]

Originally posted by hillzz22 hey,

 

i have a kenwood kac-829 2 channel amp that i want to run to my highs. the speakers i want to connect it to are 2 Alpine SPS-1629S and 2 Infinity 652i. I am assuming that both speakers are 4 ohm load, and should i just wire two speakers on each channel? for example, front left and back left on left channel, and front right and back right on other channel? Thanks for your help

 

-Aaron

Yes that would work. The only problem you might have is that if your rear speakers are too loud you can't fade to the front to balance the sound. It depends on the location of the rear speakers.

In my truck I have my front and rear speakers wired to a 2ch. amp. Because of the

location of my rear speakers and my enclosure partially blocking them the sound is neutral.

Try it and see.

 

[evo2k3 10+ year member]

Originally posted by ws140 that probably is not a good idea for sound imaging and becuase it dosen't make much sense. I think you should run your front speakers off the amp and run the rear speakers off your h/u.

looks like you dont have a proper understanding of sound imaging....the only problem is you loose the ability to fade front to back other than that, you still have left and right so your still in a "stereo" situation, as aposed to mono. Though I would at least think about doing like shaunmac suggested and running the rears off the deck.

 

[hillzz22 10+ year member]

I understand that i would no longer be able to fade, but that really doesn't seem like an issue to me, being that i have always had the fader set to zero without the amp and the imaging in the car seems well balanced that way. Is it possible that an amp would throw that off, because it seems to me that it would sound the same, but louder in both cases. However i may just run the front 2 off the amp to keep my options open for fading.