Sub/amp ohm ?

[stl_314 10+ year member]

A friend asked me to help hook up his system today. I noticed he had 1 d2 and 1 d4 type r. I told him it wont work and it will blow subs/amp. Regardless I ended up hooking it up for him and it seems to play fine.

Ive always known to not use different ohm subs, but my question is what happends when you do.

He has been playing full tilt all day w/o problems

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[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

You can.....but each sub is seeing different power loads. If they are in the same box, this can be a problem. To the amp it makes no difference. A load is a load to the amp.

 

[stl_314 10+ year member]

See they each have their own chamber, so it should be fine?

 

[TaylorFade 10+ year member]

One sub is going to see roughly double the power. I bet it would sound better with a single. There HAS to be some cancellation going on.

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

each speaker is seeing a different amount of power due to one having a higher amount of resistance "ohms", it's not that it destroys things it's just not advised because it's not correct.

 

[TaylorFade 10+ year member]

A load is a load.

lol

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

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