Hi,

I have 4 speakers in my truck. front & rear. All 4 ohms. If I take the front left and back left speaker wires and attached the positives together and the negatives together (and do the same with the right side speakers) and hook them up to my amp (which is 2 ohm stable) will this give me the power that I am looking for? In effect, only use 2 of the 4 channels available to run all 4 speakers and hook the speakers in Parallel

This is my delima. My amp is a 4 channel MTX404. I currently have it wired with all 4 channels. This gives me 35 watts per channel at 4 ohms. IT can give me 70 watts per channel at 2 ohms. This is what I want (more power) but I am unsure on how to wire it correctly.

Hopefully I explained this correctly

Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

So you mean you want to hook 2 of the speakers up on ONE channel in parallel to get 2 ohms (and have 2 channels left over with nothing on them)? If this is what you meam, you arent getting any more power since the power is divided by the 2 speakers, Meaning if you hooked the 2 speakers up to one channel you WOULD be sending 70 watts to them, but that is divided between the 2 speakers so they are only getting 35 watts. Just like if you hooked one speaker up to each channel.

They way you described IS the right way to wire them for 2 ohms, you jsut arent gaining anything. It will sound better with one speaker on each channel since it is 4 ohms instead of 2 ohms, like it would have been if you had wired them on parallel.


You could bridge teh channels to get 2 channels, and then you woudl have more power, put more than likely your amp cant handle 2 ohms bridged. If it can, your in luck cause then you can bridge it and put each channel on 2 speakers wired in parallel.