I have a sony xm-4045.
It has 2 high pass channels @ 40w and one bridged at 100w
Would it be bad to run 4 speakers off of that one bridge?
Edit: also, what would this amp typically be used for/best for?
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4 speakers on one bridged channel?
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loudwagon15s
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I have 4 4 ohm speakers. I assume one set = 2?loudwagon15s wrote:if you were running 4 sets of 4 ohm speakers
loudwagon15s wrote: you could run a pair in parallel to 2 ohms and run 2 ohm stereo
How do I do that?
loudwagon15s wrote:but it is a sony, so anything can happen
I thought this was before sony went to "xplod" (before they made crap amps)
Thats an old school sony. So its a decent little amp.
That being said, its not 2 ohm's bridged capable. You can run it in 2 ohm's stereo, but not 2 ohm's bridged.
So why would you want to bridge it and run 4 speakers? Its really not designed for that. Its designed to be used as a 3 or 4 channel amp. Two high pass chanels on the front, and a single (or two) low power subs in the rear.
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/XM4045.PDF
That being said, its not 2 ohm's bridged capable. You can run it in 2 ohm's stereo, but not 2 ohm's bridged.
So why would you want to bridge it and run 4 speakers? Its really not designed for that. Its designed to be used as a 3 or 4 channel amp. Two high pass chanels on the front, and a single (or two) low power subs in the rear.
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/XM4045.PDF
Each speaker is 4ohm though. Would it change the ohms by putting all 4 positive and negative on the one bridge?JeremyC wrote:Thats an old school sony. So its a decent little amp.
That being said, its not 2 ohm's bridged capable. You can run it in 2 ohm's stereo, but not 2 ohm's bridged.
So why would you want to bridge it and run 4 speakers? Its really not designed for that. Its designed to be used as a 3 or 4 channel amp. Two high pass chanels on the front, and a single (or two) low power subs in the rear.
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/XM4045.PDF
The reason I am trying to use it is because it's the only HPF amp I have.
I will just run the doors off of it and the dash on the head unit then for now till I get a proper 4 channel HPF amp?