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How would this work???
I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms?
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Jeremys4runner wrote:
I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms? You can't. The best you could acheive with that combo is approx 400W x 1 @ 8 ohm which would MASSIVELY underpower that sub. IMO, it would still make plenty of noise, but I don't see the point of using $1500 worth of amplifier and sub to get less then optimal output. Your best option would be to get rid of the SPL 10 and find a nice 4 ohm SVC, or dual 2 ohm 10" that can handle 800W RMS. -- Dan Snooks |
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:06:37 -0400, "Daniel Snooks"
wrote: Jeremys4runner wrote: I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms? You can't. The best you could acheive with that combo is approx 400W x 1 @ 8 ohm which would MASSIVELY underpower that sub. IMO, it would still make plenty of noise, but I don't see the point of using $1500 worth of amplifier and sub to get less then optimal output. Your best option would be to get rid of the SPL 10 and find a nice 4 ohm SVC, or dual 2 ohm 10" that can handle 800W RMS. You don't have to use both coils on a DVC sub. He could bridge his amp to mono and drive a single 4-ohm voice coil with it. The power handling of the sub will be reduced somewhat, but not by half. Adire Audio even has a page describing how to connect a variable resistor to the unused coil to adjust the 'Q' of the speaker/enclosure combo. -- Scott Gardner "People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament." |
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Scott Gardner wrote:
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:06:37 -0400, "Daniel Snooks" wrote: Jeremys4runner wrote: I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms? You can't. The best you could acheive with that combo is approx 400W x 1 @ 8 ohm which would MASSIVELY underpower that sub. IMO, it would still make plenty of noise, but I don't see the point of using $1500 worth of amplifier and sub to get less then optimal output. Your best option would be to get rid of the SPL 10 and find a nice 4 ohm SVC, or dual 2 ohm 10" that can handle 800W RMS. You don't have to use both coils on a DVC sub. He could bridge his amp to mono and drive a single 4-ohm voice coil with it. The power handling of the sub will be reduced somewhat, but not by half. Adire Audio even has a page describing how to connect a variable resistor to the unused coil to adjust the 'Q' of the speaker/enclosure combo. Quite so, thanks for the correction. -- Dan Snooks |
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Couldn't you use 1 channel from the amp for each voice coil?
pioneer list it as an option for powering most of their DVC subs? "Jeremys4runner" wrote in message ... I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms? -- Jeremys4runner |
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Brett wrote:
Couldn't you use 1 channel from the amp for each voice coil? pioneer list it as an option for powering most of their DVC subs? "Jeremys4runner" wrote in message ... I have a 2 or 8 ohm premier spl 10 inch DVC sub, Obviously I could use a mono sub amp and wire both voice coils and run it on 2 ohms, but I already have a nice 800 watt soundstream van gogh 2 channel amp, power is 800 watts rms at 12 volts with both channels bridged at 4 ohms. How would I wire this sub to get the 2 ohms or 8 ohms it is rated at, with a 2channel amp, and still get the most rms out of the amp???? Could you bridge it twice, 4 ohms bridged on one voice coil, and 4 ohms bridged on the other? making 2 ohms? -- Jeremys4runner He could, but each VC is 4ohm, so he would still only get about 400W total power going to the sub. -- Dan Snooks |
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