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I've been reading and reading and I guess I haven't really seen it explained in a way that I understand 100% so I must ask. Let's say I have a dual 1 ohm sub, If I wire it in series to a pair of strapped amps each amp will be seeing a 1 ohm load right? When I wire it I simply sire in series to the 1st amp and just run the RCA to the slave amp?

Can someone please help me......... please give me lots and lots of crossover information, I need to learn! I see that people on this site have made their own and I don't even know how to use ones that I could buy off of my stereo stores shelf. Please help! confused............-crossovers ....... Thanks............. Jonathan

Ok I'll explain what is in his car, Alt is stock for now (his excessive amperage one just blew, again) Batteries are two kinetik 2000's( one up front one in back) Runs of 1/0 and 3/0 to the back Big three in 1/0 3/0 wires and 1/0 wires and 4 awg wires to amps Head unit is a double din pioneer and 3 premiums on the back, Subs are two 15" dc xls dual 1's Amp for subs is a saz3500 Door speakers are kicker coaxials powered by a boss 2 channel He has four 6" selenium mids powered by a jl audio 2 channel And that was his setup and everything has been going fine. Now, he just bought two selenium horns and two selenium supertweeters (st200's) and a Boston acoustics amp fro…

I have 60' (40' clear/silver, 20' blue) of Monster 400 Series 1/0. I need another 100' (40'clear/silver, 60') blue though. So I was wandering if I should bother hunting like crazy for more Monster, which I have been doing, or sell it all and get some Knu Fleks 1/0. Basically, should I hunt for another 100' of Monster 400, or say screw it and get 160' Knu Fleks?

so i have 2 18" fully loaded BTLs waiting to be put in with 2 2400 watt rms hifonics amps....1 amp for each sub... but i need to know how many batteries do i need ?? also what brand / model ?? i know XS Power Batteries but which model ..im thinking the HC2400 for each amp ??. i wanna get 1 battery for each amp ... and then 1 battery for my cars electrical... also how many amps does the alternator need to be ... i know i need to upgrade the alternator.... im pretty sure i wanna go with DC Power alternator ive heard nothing but good things about them... what brand ?? where can i get the alternator ?? also what gauge does the speaker wire need to be ?? 12 gauge fine ?? im no…

Should i change my mosconi gladen one 120.4 amp for 2 mosconi pico 2 please advice, my main concern is overheating of this pico 2 since i dont have information about that small little thing i do plan to listen lots of hours of music in my car when i am travelling and this pico 2 doesnt have any fan or any heat dissapation at all , i consider changing my mosconi gladen 120w x 4 to two mosconi pico 2 i will save space that way and since my speakers are rated at 75w i dont need 120w power. If someone ever used pico 2 tell me is it overheating is it suffers from any problems...

Is a SAX-125.2 amplifier enought for a FI 18'' 1000w sub. Or i should go bigger. New in this stuff and would like some help to decide.

I have a dual 1 ohm BL (.75dcr) with no options and need a amp for it. I will do the big 3 and have the stock 130a alternator and battery so it needs to be fairly efficienct. I may add a battery or two in the future but not immediately. Right now im looking at a sundown 1500 (run at .375 ohms), gp3000d (rated 1500@2), crossfire vr2000d (.5 ohm stable, 2000 watts), and zx1500.1 If i did the crossfire i could add another battery right away because of the price. I like the sundown just because its sexy and can tolerate low voltage, i like the gp3000d because it can do 3000@1 if i ever decide to upgrade (though i havent found out how efficient it is), the crossfire is just ch…

hey guys and girls, I've been looking around for a H/O alternator for my 03 VW Golf GTI. I was speaking to a representative from Kinetik's about power cells that I will be needing to power my soon to be Sundown Audio 3000 amp. The representative told me that the higher than amperage from the alternator, the more power will be drained from the engine. He was also telling me that it is a big enough drain since I drive a 4 cyl car. Soon after I spoke to a representative from Ohio Alternators and he told me that the loss of horsepower would only be be a maximum of 5 from the engine with a 200 amp alternator at full power. Anybody have any input on the situation? This is my da…

hi i have been looking at tons of videos all day about how to set gains on a sub amp. i have tried and am completely lost. when i touch the speaker terminals with the DMM it says 0 volts... wtf... super annoying so i cant even get passed the first part in this battle in hell... if anyone can help me out with a easy way to set it let me know asap. also with the subs and everything plugged in and all knobs down i hear no sound from the subs at all as if they are getting no power. AHH!! please help!

can the pioneer P880PRS run an active 2 way setup

I have a hifonics hfi1500d in my suv right now. I traded a few things and I got a hifonics bre 16001.d I was wondering which one is a better amp to use on my sundowns.

i am looking for a new h/u.... ive been looking around for one with what i want and in my price range but just cant find one... any suggestions i am looking for a single DIN either 6.5" or 7" motorized unit with usb... in around the $500 price range

I'm new to this site and had a couple of qestions about the Sundown saz3000d. I have 2 digital design 9515's dual 2's and I was wondering what would be a good amp to place with them? Right now I have 2 audiobahn 2300 hct but I am not satisfied and I was thinking of putting 2 saz3000d's in replace of them. I already know I need to upgrade my charging system. Any suggestions? Dana

hey guys i'm planning on going for a sound quality system and my amp is a db3000 mono block amp and i saw that it has 4 speakers terminals. I've read around and it says that the amp is internally brigded but i'm still confused the 12 i was looking to go with soundsplinter 12 rl-p and i was looking to wire it to a 2ohm load giving it 950 watts but the terminals are still confusing so if someone could explain getting a 4ohm load, 2ohm load i would greatly appreciate

So I just placed an order for the new Crescendo Mezzo components and I was wondering how to wire them up once I receive them. I have a 2 channel Kicker ZR1000 (I got it for $30 and it works perfect ) that I will use to power them. The only problem is that I'm not sure what to put the crossover module at. The options are bypass, lowpass and hipass. I used the hipass for the coaxials, but I'm not sure if that would be used for the components, since it has the crossover box. Also, I'm going to keep my stock head unit. I have 2 Crescendo BC2ks (strapped) and the kicker ZR1000. What should I use to connect the RCAs up to? For my friend's cars, they have a little blue box fro…

Still looking for a 4 channel amp to run an active setup in my friends car. Planning on running SEAS 27TFFNC Tweet and CA18RNX. I saw these amps and thought I should get some opinions from you guys. Here they are. Soundstream TRA960.4 MB Q RAB 450 PP A600/4 All of these amps are around $250 -325 and is the budget for amps as of now. Are there any other choices that would be better in this price range?

My new amp (Aq1200d) came in. Verryyy nice. Not a whole lot to say about it yet besides that it seems to push alot more than my old bxi and seems pretty reliable. Looks fantastic. Thumbs up to the guys at Audioque excuse my dirty carpet, it will be cleaned soon.

'06 Alpine HUs better than '05? Spec wise they look a lot worse.

http://www.petitiononline.com/hca00001/petition.html heres the original thread on SMD: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/ind...mp;#entry534741

breaks my heart

Well, im looking into this amp casue its pretty cheap where i found it. I heard good and bad about it. I hear it will do 1/2ohm daily and over 3000watts? Are their amps any good? The model im looking at is the Concept CC-D2400, its an older model I think. Thaks for the help...

Hi there, Can you guyz tell me whether there are other brand (amps) that has "Time Alignment" feature besides ZAPCO's DC Reference? Thanks for your help, Kelvin

I was wondering if the IA20.1 is underrated? Looking to get one to power my DD9515 d2 subwoofer. Also, does anyone have one they would like to sell?