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<blockquote data-quote="qkassidyw" data-source="post: 4933295" data-attributes="member: 598965">I&#039;ll try and summarize what the other poster was saying.You CAN hook up 6 speakers to a deck BUT if you wired them in parallel it would burn the deck out. If you wired them in series off of the rear you would have 8 ohms on each channel and two speakers off each channel so you would only be getting MAYBE 8 Watts RMS to each speaker.Using a 4 channel you would hook the fronts up tot he front channels and the other four speakers into the rear channels. This would result in a 2 ohm load on the rears BUT you have two speakers on each channel so they would be splitting the power so the front stage wouldn&#039;t be louder because all the speakers would (essentially) be getting the same power.With the 6-channel you would either wire each pair of speakers in series then bridge them (3 bridged at 8 ohms) or just hook each speaker up to each channel. But, its harder to find a 6 channel amp that evenly distrubtes power to all 6 channels. Normally it is something like 100Wx4 @4 and 250x2 @4 (4 four speakers and two for subs)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="qkassidyw, post: 4933295, member: 598965"] I'll try and summarize what the other poster was saying. You CAN hook up 6 speakers to a deck BUT if you wired them in parallel it would burn the deck out. If you wired them in series off of the rear you would have 8 ohms on each channel and two speakers off each channel so you would only be getting MAYBE 8 Watts RMS to each speaker. Using a 4 channel you would hook the fronts up tot he front channels and the other four speakers into the rear channels. This would result in a 2 ohm load on the rears BUT you have two speakers on each channel so they would be splitting the power so the front stage wouldn't be louder because all the speakers would (essentially) be getting the same power. With the 6-channel you would either wire each pair of speakers in series then bridge them (3 bridged at 8 ohms) or just hook each speaker up to each channel. But, its harder to find a 6 channel amp that evenly distrubtes power to all 6 channels. Normally it is something like 100Wx4 @4 and 250x2 @4 (4 four speakers and two for subs) [/QUOTE]

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