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ok i hooked up my amp and it sends out 2 channels with both at 165 watts rms each. i tried hooking up 1 channel to 2 of my front speakers,(6.5 in sony xplod 45 watts rms) well, basically, the speakers blew when i turned it up loud. when i didnt have the amplifier before, the sound was clipping on the speakers, now that i got the amplifier,they blew up. i need to buy some new speakers, but i only have 1 channel available to hook up either 2 or 4 speakers(4 meaning front and back speakers), the other channel is being saved for the subwoofer.

well, im looking to spend around 50-80$ on 2 new front speakers, and i need them to handle 165 watts rms combined without blowing up, or have some kind of way to avoid having my speakers blow up. what should i be looking for on the product?

as for the other non-amplified speakers, they all sound distorted when i turn the music loud. previosly i changed my head unit but still have the stock speakers in. i think every speaker in my car is clipping because the head unit is not supporting enough power to the stock speakers. including the tweeters over the front speakers, i have 6 speakers.(tweeters also distorting) i dont want to amplify all the speakers, i want to buy some speakers that will work well with the head unit. which carries out 35 x 4 watts rms. what should i buy?

replies would be greatly appreciated. thanks.  

How you doin? Hm, i would suggest considering a different wiring scheme for your car. If you put both front speakers into channel 1 of your amp, you lose stereo and your essentially working off Mono. A solution? Hmm thats kind of difficult. If you choose to stay with the setup you have, assuming you dont mind the mono factor in your system, wire the speakers in series, not parallel. What that will do is double the resistance of the speakers and lower the amount of power entering your speakers. Remember the formulas, if you wire two speakers in parallel that are the same resistance, the ohms are cut in half! and your power is doubled. That means your sending each speaker probably 165 watts each, no wonder they blew! But if you wire in series, you actually double the resistance and your ohms is 8. which will cut your power in half. so each speaker gets like 40 or so watts. If you dont mind the mono, this COULD be your solution. Then, if you have two subs, hook them up in parallel. Unfortunately, this sets your amp off at two different resistances per channel, which on some amps wont matter TOO much if the power supply is different, but most likely this wont be great for your amp. My suggestion? Buy a seperate amp, and use that amp to power your car speakers. All you need is a seperate 2 channel amp. Then, wire your left and right speakers either parallel or in series. You will be more concerned about balance (left and right) than fade (front and back) which is why you put the two lefts and the two rights on the same channel. Good luck dude!  

yeah thanks dude i never knew that a series connection made that much of a difference, im gunna try that, considering that im only gunna have one sub in the back for now, but im gunna take your suggestion when i want to improve it a lil. i was thinking more of a four channel amp though.

thanks.  

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