Wiring 4 speakers

[hooppro 10+ year member]

Ok, I have done a search on this and found all kinds of answers so i just wanted my questions to get cleared up. HOW SHOULD I WIRE 4 SPEAKERS USING A 2 CHANNEL AMP? I have a Rockford 351s, a CDT 61a component set (90 watts rms) for up front and CDT 6x rear fill (40 watts rms). My question is how should i wire these up?

option 1.) should i bridge the amp and give the 61a's 90 a piece at 4ohms and run the 6x's off the HU? (a pioneer deh860)

opition 2.) Should i wire the front and rear speakers in parallel and send each side 170 watts at 2 ohms? (my question about this is will the 6x's be drawing too much power or will the extra power just be pulled away by the 61a's?)

opition 3.) should i the the 61a's in parallel and connect them to the left channel and the 6x's in parallel to the right channel? (here i will no longer have stereo cound tho)

i've heard many contridicting opinions so please help me out.

thanks

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[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

ima go with number one...

u dont want ur refill to out shine ur front stage //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

im just gonna clear this up

wire each tweet to its respective midbass drive into 2 2ohm loads then wire each load to a channel on the amp

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

dam i had to edit that like 4 times

 

[hooppro 10+ year member]

wait so i can wire my midbasses and my tweets together to get a 2ohm load on each side...and than get the most wattage out of my amp?

thanks for the help

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

#1 is best. 2 2ohm loads.

2ohms ch1, 2ohms ch2. which would get max RMS power with out hurting the amp

the cl6x's off the H/U power

 

[EFFENDI 10+ year member]

yep, what supa_C said x2. who needs rear fill anyways?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Option 1, except you won't be bridging the amp. That'd make it only 1 channel.

Wire the rears off the HU.

 

[hooppro 10+ year member]

ok my first option seems to be the way to go...wire each side of my component set to one of the channels on my amp. (80x2 @4ohms and 165x2 @2ohms) i feel stupid asking this but my cl-61a speaker set says that the impendence is 4ohms (im guessing this is the load after it goes through the x-overs)...how can i make this 2 2ohms loads liek you guys said...?!?!?

thank you

 

[Mind_nl 10+ year member]

2 4ohm speakers wired parallel will add up to a 2ohm

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

You can't change 4 ohm components to 2 ohms. You'll only get 2 ohms if you add another pair of speakers.

 

[jleecong 10+ year member]

I have the same setup and just finished installing the rear this weekend. Front comps are off an amp (right side +,- from amp to crossover, from crossover to mid-bass and tweeter. repeat for left side) rears off the HU.

OMG does it sound good, but it's been two years since I've had non blown speakers. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

FYI

I had to make all 4 of my factory 6.5 holes bigger to work with my CDT speakers.