This true?

[zx2freak 10+ year member]

that this amp http://ikesound.com/product-product_id/3267 wont work with these subs http://ikesound.com/product-product_id/3352 someone told me it wont b/c the subs are 4 OHM and the amp is 2 OHM

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[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

With a dual 4 ohm coil sub, you can wire to 8 ohms or 2 ohms. That amp puts out 1000 watts at 2 ohms. So, if you've got one of those subs, you'll be putting 1000 watts to it, a bit much if you're asking this type of question.

EDIT: For future reference though, you could run them together. An ohm is a measure of resistence, an amp puts out less power as resistence increases. The only time you run into trouble is when you try to run an amp with a load lower than it's rated to handle, then you can burn things up inside with too much current.

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

Whoever told you that knows very little about audio. For one, thats not a 4 ohm sub, its a DUAL 4 ohm sub... making it, effectively, either a 2 ohm sub OR an 8 ohm sub depending on how you wire it to the amp. And there is no such thing as a "2 ohm amp" or "4 ohm amp" amps put out different amounts of power depeding on the load (ohm) that you wire them to. (usually) the lower the ohms, the more power an amp will put out, but when that load gets too low (say 1 ohm in this case), that amp would overheat and fry since it is not meant to handle that amount of power. (in reality that amp probably has protection circuitry so it would just shut down instead of frying)

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

By the way it sounded in your post, you want to run multiple subs off of that amp. If you are looking at the type R's, you can run them, but look into the dual 2 ohm model if you want to run 2. This makes for wiring each sub independently in parallel so it acts as a 1 ohm load, then wiring the subs together in series to raise the impedence to 2 ohms. If you did that, you'd be sending (assuming the amp's rating is correct) 500 watts to each driver which would work well.

Now, you could also look at that amp, get a single dual 2 ohm sub and wire it up to 4 ohms, giving approx 500 watts (assuming the amp doubles power at 2 vs 4 ohms, though it's not always true). Then if you wanted to upgrade later with more cash, pick up the second one and you'd be in the situation above.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

By the way it sounded in your post, you want to run multiple subs off of that amp. If you are looking at the type R's, you can run them, but look into the dual 2 ohm model if you want to run 2. This makes for wiring each sub independently in parallel so it acts as a 1 ohm load, then wiring the subs together in series to raise the impedence to 2 ohms. If you did that, you'd be sending (assuming the amp's rating is correct) 500 watts to each driver which would work well.
Now, you could also look at that amp, get a single dual 2 ohm sub and wire it up to 4 ohms, giving approx 500 watts (assuming the amp doubles power at 2 vs 4 ohms, though it's not always true). Then if you wanted to upgrade later with more cash, pick up the second one and you'd be in the situation above.

he is right. but u also could give that sub 1000rms if u get a dual 4. i am giving mine 600rms, and i have heard people give 3000 to the sub

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

For someone just beginning in the audio world, or at least as far as knowledge goes though, I wouldn't reccomend putting 1000 watts to it daily.