wiring my speakers

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

i am pretty new at all of the wiring and stuff. anyway, i have a set of audiobahn 6.5 components in my front doors and a pair of planet audio 6.5 speakers in the rear. i have a 760 watt sony xplod amp that i want to run these with. can i hook all 4 speakers up to my 2 channel amp? how would i wire it? should i get a 4 channel amp?

thanks in advance

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[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

It will work with the 2 channel amp. Just hook up the 2nd set of wires exactly as you did the 1st set -- right on top (if you will) of the other ones. You will have a 2 ohm stereo load on the amp and it will be putting out optimal power. The only concern is that you won't be able to fade front to back.

 

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

so i will be running a 2ohm load? my amp is 150x2 rms at 4ohm and 190x2 at 2 ohm. does this mean that i will be getting 190 to each speaker or 95?

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

95

 

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

ok thanks

 

[Corsica 5,000+ posts]

as n2 audio said yes it waill work but with no fading capabilities. Now if u get a 4 channel amp u can fade and balance. Personally i I had the $$ I'd dump the Sony and get a better 4 channel amp, but thats just me...........unless its mobile ES.

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[coolman91985 10+ year member]

its a mobile-es

 

[roester37 10+ year member]

or you could hook it up to fade front and back, but you won't have left to right fade

 

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

how would i do that? can u explain or draw a diagram as to how to wire my system?

thanks in advacne

 

[roester37 10+ year member]

if you have two sets of rca cables, front and rear, then you could run them to the amp and use a "y adapter" to combine the set into one and plug that into the channel. like the pictures shows, you could put the front set into left channel and wire the front speakers to the left channel, and put the rear set into the right channel and wire the rear speakers to the right channel.

wiring this way you would have front and rear fade, but not left to right.

also, if your wired it this way, it would be easy to switch to a 4 channel amp if you decide to get one later on down the line

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by roester37 or you could hook it up to fade front and back, but you won't have left to right fade

No no no no no...you don't want to do that. L/R stereo seperation is crucial to get any kind of decent sound. Recordings aren't made in a front/rear relationship - that signal is always the same - and is the reason many people don't even use rear speakers. The idea of stereo sound is that you can have one thing going on in the left channel (instrumental for instance) and have a completely different thing going on in the right (vocals), and it all comes together in the middle. Effects are made using L to R stereo seperation and switching it to F/R would be a BAD idea.

 

[roester37 10+ year member]

yeah i agree, it would sound bad, but it could be done

 

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

so then how would i wire it so that i would be able to fade left to right?

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by coolman91985 so then how would i wire it so that i would be able to fade left to right?

Originally posted by N2Audio:Just hook up the 2nd set of wires exactly as you did the 1st set -- right on top (if you will) of the other ones. Left speaker to left channel and right speaker to right channel. You will have a 2 ohm stereo load on the amp and it will be putting out optimal power.

 

[coolman91985 10+ year member]

can someone draw a diagram so i have something to look off of and refer back to?

thanks