What's up guys? I have a really quick and simple question, my problem is my friends don't speak 'audio' so here goes:

I am picking up a 12" mtx 5500 thunder series sub and I will be hooking it up to my sony xplod 2 channel amp. Now, how should I hook the sub up? Should I run wires from each channel to the separate voice coils or should I run the voice coil wires in series and use the amp as a mono block?

any help is appreciated! and if anyone would like a refurbished 15" JL w0 v1 then please let me know

 

it depends on if the VCs are 2 ohm or 4 ohm.

 

they are 4 ohm voice coils...sorry i didnt state that before

 

Wire them in series and bridge the amp, thus making the amp see an 8 ohm load.

 

DO NOT wire each coil to it's own channel, wire it 8 ohms and bridge the amp, if you do each coil off of a channel depending on the music it could have the coils playing against each other. What size is the amp? because w0 have low power handling so at 8 ohms you should be ok.

 

^ oops, yeah you're right.

 

ok cool thanx guys. it is a 1200 watt amp. so i know i'll have plenty of power for the sub. since you mention it matt, it makes sense that i shouldnt wire them to separate channels

 

I hate to burst your bubble, but it isn't a 1200w amp.....that's the MAX power rating, and that rating means virtually nothing.

It's the RMS rating that you should always look at.

 

yeah i know dude. its 1200 watts max x2 at 2 ohms and 600w rms x 2 at 2 ohms