Amplifier specified 4 Ohm into 2 Ohm?

If they're only rated to 4 Ohm, running them at 2 Ohm is a Very Bad Idea. If it could safely drive a 2 Ohm load, it would be rated at 2 Ohm. Many amps rated 2 Ohm even struggle to drive a 2 Ohm load. 

Happens all the time. No problems there.

serioussound wrote: Easisest way having a single wire cable to each speaker from amplifier and then a dual wire in between speakers?

No, single wire in between speakers.




Edited by Conanski - 27 March 2018 at 11:06pm

I have noticed that the recommended power requirement for these speakers is 175 watts. The amps are only rated at 120 watts in 4r so significantly under-powered already. Wiring in series to get 8r will reduce the output of the amp by up to half, so potentially 60 watts output or 30 watts to each speaker which require 175 watts to give their full potential. This is not exactly ideal and i would recommend you only do this as a very temporary solution.

Could get another amp big enough to run the comfortably at 8ohms?

Old amps are cheap if you don't mind the weight.

If you want to run 2 cabs on each amp in bridge mode and they're only seeing 30w amp power each, you could do a lot better by just selling these RCF amps on eBay (where they should fetch more than their watt rating alone would warrant due to 100v line and other features (are any of these critical to you?) and spend whatever you get on a couple of used ~300-1000wpc amps. Even if you need the signal to be split for processing purposes you could pick up 3x 300-400wpc amps and run 2 speakers on each channel.


Edited by Hemisphere - 29 March 2018 at 12:51am