To ensure your car stereo system has excellent bass, you need to find an amp that matches your sub. If you already have a sub, here are the steps to finding the right amp.
Note that if you plan to wire together multiple subs in your car audio system, they must all be the same impedance and coil type to ensure they are all powered evenly. While different types of subs must all have their own separate amps. Choose an amp that can put out power in the total RMS wattage range from step one, and at an impedance load the subs form, based on their wiring, from step two. Car stereo amps range from one to six channels. A mono-channel amp is often ideal for powering subwoofers since it can output a lot of power with low impedance.
Take the RMS power rating you chose from the previous step and divide it by the number of subs you want in your car stereo system. In this article, we look at how to bridge a 4-channel amplifier to 2 subs. If you only have one subwoofer, check out our guide on how to bridge a 4 channel amplifier to 1 subwoofer. Bridging any kind of amplifier may initially seem very difficult.
However, once you learn the process, the process becomes seamlessly easy. Basically, the bridging process is the same and applies to all types of amplifiers. If you learn to bridge a two-channel amp, bridging four-channel amplifiers becomes much easier. Amplifiers may commonly have channels up to four. If you intend to bridge a four-channel amplifier, you will follow the step-by-step procedure we have outlined below. Before you begin the process, you need to have some materials to work with.
The most common way to have your amp bridged is to connect it to a pair of 4-ohm subwoofers. Meet Buck Pomerantz Close. More about Buck Started at Crutchfield in Completed our thorough in-house Advisor training, learning about the ins and outs of our various products Stays up-to-date by attending vendor training sessions for new products Earned MECP Mobile Electronics Certified Professional certification Designed and organized Crutchfield's subwoofer wiring diagrams Authored dozens of Crutchfield articles and hundreds of product presentations, primarily focused on car audio amplifiers and pro audio gear Answers the many customer questions posted in the comments on his articles Semi-retired soundman with decades of experience making other people sound good From to , also worked as a sidelines video camera grip for University of Virginia football and basketball games.
Kicker KEY Kicker CompC 10" component subwoofer. Comments Read comments. Chris M. Chris, Low power just means softer volume, there's no problem there. It does sounds like your sub amp's gain was not set correctly, allowing clipped signals to cook the sub's voice coil. Check out Tuning your subs for help with that.
It'll work best with a mono subwoofer amplifier that can put out up to watts RMS at 2 ohms. I don't know what's available in your country, so I can't give a specific recommendation.
There should be at least one or two car audio dealerships in your town that can help you out with options. Stanislav, That gear will work best together with each of the subs wired to a separate output channel of the amp. Omar, Without knowing precisely what amp and subs you're referring to, we can't help you with advice. If you want a question answered about a system, you must identify the gear by brand names and model numbers so we can get the right information to you.
Derek, If there's only one pair of speaker wires for your sub, there's only one way to wire them to an amp: one wire to one output terminal and the other wire to the other terminal.
But maybe I misunderstood your situation. For help tuning, see Tuning your subs. For the LC2i, use the peak light to maximize its output without distorting the signal. Carter, That gear will work well together, wired like this. Jesus, I don't know what you mean by "good" but that amp will safely power those subs with up to about two-thirds of their top RMS power rating. Never use maximum or peak power ratings - always use RMS amplifier specifications. Neal, Your first sub blew because the amp sent the watts RMS rated sub watts.
Your second sub blew because the watts RMS rated sub was sent watts. Your third sub is evidently wired as a 2-ohm load and the amp goes into protect mode because it can't handle that low an impedance load when bridged. The only way to safely wire that gear together is like this. Jessic, Rattling occurs when there's loose hardware or blown speakers. Your two DVC 4-ohm watts RMS rated subs W total are probably wired together to form a one-ohm load , instead of a 4-ohm load , and the amp tried to send them watts which blew them to smithereens.
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Select your headphone brand Brand. Select your headphone model Model. Don't see your headphones? Rent our Listening Kit. The secret to getting a great bass is ensuring that your am and the subwoofers are evenly matched to work properly.
This guide will assist you to figure out how to do that enjoy quality sound. Sub-woofers usually feature two power handling specifications. The peak wattage , on the other hand, specifies the maximum power amount that the woofer is capable of withstanding without damages.
Today, most power amps in the market indicate the RMS watt ranges thus specifying the maximum and minimum power ranges that can be produced by the amp. This gives you the total RMS rating for all of the subs. Please note that an overpowered sub-woofer is a better option compared to an underpowered one. Impedance refers to the measure of electrical resistance.
However, things get complicated when the connection involves multiple sub-woofers or dual-voice coil DVC sub-woofers featuring 2 input and input connections. For instance, 2 sub-woofers with 4 ohms each need an amp with an 8-ohm impedance rating. This leads to some subs being underpowered while others getting overpowered. When choosing sub-woofers, you can select between the single voice coil and dual voice coils.
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