will be running 2-200w speakers & a 1000w 10 inchpolk audio sub, what would be the best way to wire it? cheers.got this yesterday from you
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Ok, so the sub is 500W RMS and 4 ohms. That means that your amp will be sending it 350W. You will have 300W going to each of the "200W" 8's and 350W going to the sub. It should be fine unless you are over-driving the 8's - on music, there shouldn't be a problem.
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This amp will push that no problem if your sub is 1000 rms this might not be the p for you but if that's the peak power and your rms is between 300-500 you should be ok also you should know if your sub is a dual coil sub do not run it at 1 ohm or else you will blow the amp
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Wire your speakers normal. But drop the resistance on the sub. It should push it no problem
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If it were me, I would bridge the 4 channels down to 2 channels and connect the "200W" speakers to them. The 10 inch sub should be run off the sub channel (or "5th" channel). I would personally be more concerned with the load of the speakers than their max wattage rating. Are the "200W" speakers 2 or 4 ohm? Is the sub 2 or 4 ohm? Is the sub a SVC or DVC?
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But currently I am running this amp with a 10" pioneer champion series 2 alpine type s 6x9 and alpine type S component set in the front and if sounds amazing !!!
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I recommend a good heavy duty speaker wire with banana plugs. Search Amazon in speaker wire with banana plug ends. On the sub, I use a Yamaha 10" which is somewhat overkill for the Polk speakers. I've been using juat the two Polk speakers on their own and the bass from these speakers is crazy. I turned off the sub since the bass was too much with both.
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Hmm... I've never come across a question like this before. Well, I suppose you would have too bridge the connections. I'll try to explain as easy as possible... use the positive post from the right channel to the positive post on speaker... and then the negative post from the left channel to the negative post on the speaker. This will "bridge" the two channels to serve as one sound source (in theory) I've done this with car subs but never with home theater components. I would seriously do your research further before you attempt this because I would hate for you to buy a great speaker and something happened to it
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The sub being used would need to have RCA inputs(how mine us currently setup). I guess you could rig up a splitter off of one of the speaker inputs. Or if your sub has input/output for speaker wire you could do that too.
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Just as long as your sub and speakers watts/rms all adds up to about 300, you should be good. Bridge the sub to get more oomph. But this can have your speakers with less power. You don't want to overload your amp. IMHO, get a mono amp that will power your sub and leave this 300w amp for your other speakers. It's what I did.
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Using the Energy ESW-8HG 8" 200 watt Take Classic subwoofer - just because I like to pair things if I can, sounds very good overall.Enjoy
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Thanks for the reply. I see your point about hooking the sub through to the main speaker outs and then to the L/R fronts. I guess that would be pushing it quite a bit. Thanks for the tips on the powered sub. At $80, I can't really go wrong. One last thing: If I wanted to forgo the rear speakers, could the sub be hooked up to the surround outs or am I letting my complete ignorance show here? Thanks again.
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I had a similar question. I even emailed Polk to ask them and never heard back. You will need an amplifier because the subwoofer is passive. It has its own crossover built in, but the receiver should only be sending high sounds to your other speakers and low sounds to your sub. I just attached both positive wires from the sub to the single positive wire coming from the amp (and the same for the negative wires). It seems to work great and I have had it in for at least a year.
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id have to argee with marianne farley.. if you have no mechanail, exsperienve in wirring or know what watts are/ohms..id ask around post on fb, youd be surpised friends know someone who knows how to hook system up, going to a pro shop your looking at big money!! for install.
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Best way is to wire subs together and get a good 2 channel amp that can handle a 1 ohm load. If you call power acoustik they can help but you'll be wiring positive to positive and negative to negative making the subs run at 1 ohm. you're going to have to get one hell of an amplifier to pushall four of those subs. I had a BAMF4000/1D just to push one sub
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This should work; Basically just wiring two speakers in parallel, such that the resistance from the amp's viewpoint is halved. Each speaker will receive half the wattage.
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you need a 2 ohm Dual voice coil to make 1 ohm or 4 ohm connection. Do no under power this sub. I've been blasting 3000w+ for almost 2 years and it loves it. I bought a 2000w fosgate amp and the amp wasn't enough. protection mode way too early. I went back to my old 3500w mono refurbed amp and no issues again. Shouldn't have fixed what wasnt broken. Best sub around for the $$$.. I promise.
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Baig, thanks for the thought on the speakers. I'm using a brand new Onkyo 7.1ch home theater set rated 130W per channel. On top of that, I've swapped in my old Polk Audio speakers for the fronts, which are rated 150W each. So power is not the issue!
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You'll be good. Mine is an 1100 watt hooked up to one 12". So ideally 2 of the speakers would need a 2200 watt amplifier to reach the speakers peak, but for your use it will sound great as long as it's wired up correctly and such
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Not sure I understand the question. Which RCA output? If it's the one for the sub, it is tied to the "A" speakers. It would also be active with both "A" and "B."
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The speaker plugs are spring loaded, so use bare wire. 12 or 14 AWG works well.
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Dear Mr. Beatlefan, I am running a sewell digital to analog audio converter to the Pylepro pca1 stereo power amp. to auvio 100w x 2 4" 3-way indoor/outdoor speakers. I have been using this for over a year and it works well and it's all i need for my room.