Just so you know, posting something that somebody else says doesn't make them facts.

 

this is hilarious. dude your a dumbass just go eat chloride tablets

 

its not all about the SPL what about SQL and SQ?

 

I thought my example of the electromagnet was a simple good answer. thats a fact. more electrons in a electro magnet produces a stronger magnetic flux. thats a fact.

dude you been trolling for hours and thats all you have.. name calling. funny. choke on the fumes your amp puts out at 1 ohm.. you, of all people i figured you would be able to see through the BS and back me up.

what i find hilarious is that if my words are so wrong, then why, OH WHY! can no one prove this wrong... i just get called names. it doesn't take a genius to understand what im saying.

surly someone can post an intelligent answer otherwise... im all for an intelligent argument on the matter..

 

another bright answer. has nothing to do with not torturing your amps.

 

My amp will be just fine at 1 ohm, because it's not a piece of ****. I'm not backing you up because what you say makes no sense. For whatever reason you think that like when you double the resistance you're also doubling the efficiency. Which is so far from the truth. Anyone who reads this that doesn't know anything about car audio please disregard it.

 

yea its a dumb answer like the dumb crap that u are trying to tell us wether or not its true. FYI we dont care what u say.

 

your right. and thank you for finally giving me a reason for your remarks.. your right you don't, but you do gain some efficiency from the sub. fact right? a low resistance on your amp causes it to be less efficient. Fact right? (produces more heat and audible distortion) which is wasted energy.

sure you gain "a" db here and there by going with the lower ohm and more watt method. Great for someone who has a spl meter in their car getting measured during a competition.

but on a day to day basis.. why would you torture your amp for a inaudible gain of a db or two?

 

go ahead an just leave the thread then. you don't care then why bother?

 

because it doesnt matter if u run a amp at .5 or 1 ohm. if u know what ur doing with ur amp then u can run it at whatever u want. ive seen people that run amps at .37ohms with NO problems.

 

Any reason to keep this open?

 

I think if a consensus could be reached it would good information for people new to car audio

 

Some but not nearly enough to make it worth it. Go look up how much an amp makes RMS at 1 ohm (a 1 ohm stable amp) and then look at how much it makes at 8 ohms. It ill be a TON more, more than a db here and theres worth of power. I run the lowest possible impedance possible because it gives me the most power, and my amp is rated for it.

 

whats this special stuff your doing with your amp? the gain ****. how hard is that to master..

yay for that guy. he can run at .37 ohms. wow he must have won all types of awards with that system. awards for the worst sounding, loudest system.

trent on what terms would you close this thread?

 

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people keep arguing back and forth and it doesent really get anyone anywhere.

 

YouTube - Dc Level 6 on 10k RMS

DC AUDIO LEVEL 6 18" testing compared to a LEVEL 5 18

 

trick question. never seen a power rating at 8 ohms. except in home audio equipment. which brings me to another point .. why are all home audio speakers 8 ohms. and lower wattage?

yeah no ****. yes you get more power out of the amp.... we know that... what your feeding those watts into is what the deal is.. put all those watts though a single loop of wire. that will give you a crazy low ohm load.. is it doing anything? no. same concept with a voice coil. just more loops. a low ohm coil will do the same as the single loop.
which is less work! less magnetic flux. less output. at double the watts..

 

now run those subs with a 4 ohm coil off of the same amp .. yes you will lose a few db or so . you will be pushing less power but you will generally have the same output.. much less stress to the amp.

there is a difference between having a loud every day sub system and a competition system.. competition systems are made for Burps and short amount of usage.. Maximum dbs. would you want that for your daily driver? no you just want a loud *** system.

any of those db competitors run their system for hours at a time? if they do I would give them mad props for being able to run that loud of a system for extended periods of time.

 

That amp is meant to handle that! It's not some Wal-Mart POS that some beaner picked up! Stfu about all these stupid ****ing "facts" and get over yourself already. You may be right because you posted some **** that somebody else posted but

 

RangOH, your explanation of the electromagnet with more or less coils makes perfect sense to me. I see exactly what you're getting at and it's true as far as I know. However, if I have a 2 ohm stable amp, and it's louder at 2 ohms than at 4, and still sounds good, you're damn right I'm gonna run it at 2 ohms. I don't really care if it's 'torturing' my amp.. if it's two ohm stable then it should be fine, if it fries, then I get another one.

I think it's a matter of sound quality.. I am an SQ guy personally, so if my sub sounded crappy or if I could tell that it's clipping, I would switch it up to a higher resistance. But I really doubt that I would be able to tell the difference. By the way I'm running my amp at 4 ohms, simply because I only have a single 4 ohm sub with a single voicecoil. I'd like to pick up a new dual voicecoil though and run it at 2 ohms. At 4 ohms I can pound bass for an hour and my amp will only be slightly warm to the touch, for what that's worth. I wish I could set it up for 2 so I could see the difference, in SQ, SPL, and heat.

Anyway, my 2 cents, all this is great information, the immaturity in this thread is unfortunate, because otherwise it is very educational. Unfortunately I now feel stupider after reading the last couple pages. Thanks for posting that though RangOH. It's something to think about!

 

That makes zero sense to me as well. If your amp is clipping and you make the resistance higher you're going to have to turn your gain up, which equals even worse clipping if it was doing it to begin with. The smart thing to do would be to turn your gain down some and leave everything else alone...

 

Nate thanks for that... it did get out of hand.

Its a new day.

higher resistance will make the amp less likely to clip...even if you do have to turn the gains up high. the transistors will have to put out much less current at 8 ohms. your running them at low levels. there really shouldn't be any clip because your running them at half the output. on a 2 ohm load you would clip the signal at much lower gain because they are running full tilt already with no resistance to keep them in check.

One major draw back at low ohms is a loss of dynamic range. theres no longer soft tones and loud tones, its just loud tones and loud tones.. dynamics is gained when you have a powerful amp that is run at low output... the amp will move the sub effortlessly at the quieter tones, and slam the loud ones. its called having "headroom" your amp should always be more powerful then the speaker its driving. this whole gains thing would not even be in the equation if your equipment is selected right.

Great! its always good to have first hand knowledge of what your doing. I wish more people would try this approach. instead of rangerboy's

 

Im running my sub and amp at 2 ohms right now. I switched it yesterday for $*!ts and gigs to 4 ohms and it sounded really effin crappy it was clipping big time. maybe its just me.

Im not one to like over powering bass. I will admit i do like bass, but i like it clean and i like to hear the words and instruments in the song. I tried your higher ohm theory and i dont know if maybe i wasent adjusting the amp right but no matter where i turned any ***** it clipped horrible. Maybe ill mess with it again today, yesterday i ran out of time.

ive always ran mine on 2 ohm with this sub and amp combo and I have Never had my amp over heat or anything... Never smelled it cooking and i have cranked this baby sky high, for songs with tons of bass

 

something went wrong there, what do you have, two 2 ohm coils? I try and help. what amp and what sub are you running.. i can tell you how it should have been wired.

I think that you may have inadvertently wired your sub down to 1 ohm yesterday. i think that you've had your sub running at 4 ohms this whole time.. with dual 2 ohm you only have a choice of 1 ohm or 4.

 

thats the amp im running
Car Audio Amplifiers - JackHammer JH300 | MTX Audio

The way I have it wired I checked with the manual and its a 2ohm or 4ohm deal and I have it wire the 2ohm way



Thats the sub im running its the single 4ohm
MTX Car Audio - Thunder4500 High-Performance subwoofer | MTX Audio