Ok, well here is my plan. Right now I have 2 10" Alpine Type R's
driven by a Lanzar Rack Mount 1600 amp (supposidly 2 x 400 wrms).
Would it be a horrible idea for me to put my amp into bridged mode
with just one Alpine Type R 10" and take the other type r and make an
enclosure for it and buy a DJ amp to power it for my home theatre
system?

Wow, that sounded like a horrible idea when I wrote it down, but
sounded like a good idea in my head.....

I guess if the DJ amp has a sub out or you get a crossover so it can power the
sub it might be allright. The DJ amp would have handle a 4 ohm load. But I
don't know how it would sound, I have never owned a DJ amp.

Troy
carbudgetaudio.com

It would take a fairly expensive DJ amp to tolerate being bridged into a 4
ohm load. If you go this route everything should work, however I think you'd
be happier leaving both Alpine subs in your car and pursuing an inexpensive
home theatre sub project. It's unlikely you will be able to compensate for
the loss of one sub in your car by driving the hell out of the remaining
one, due to the effects of power compression and driver non-linearity at
high power levels.
Using an 8 ohm sub (or two 4's) for a home project would give you a wide
selection of inexpensive amplifiers that can handle the load. The cost of
sub and amp would likely end up lower than the cost of an exotic amp. Plus
it's more satisfying to build your own purpose-built project than to create
a work-around.


"Bryan Jackson" wrote in message
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Ok, well here is my plan. Right now I have 2 10" Alpine Type R's
driven by a Lanzar Rack Mount 1600 amp (supposidly 2 x 400 wrms).
Would it be a horrible idea for me to put my amp into bridged mode
with just one Alpine Type R 10" and take the other type r and make an
enclosure for it and buy a DJ amp to power it for my home theatre
system?

Wow, that sounded like a horrible idea when I wrote it down, but
sounded like a good idea in my head.....