16 or 18ga speaker wire is fine.
yes you need two pair of RCA lines for a 4 channel amplifier in 4 channel mode.
sounds like ya got everything else figured out.
one more thing, the sound from these speakers i expected to be greatly improved, yet it doesnt seem too much different than stock.. could there be a problem? im thinking because they are underpowered? is this a bad thing to do?
MrSo0h0o wrote:one more thing, the sound from these speakers i expected to be greatly improved, yet it doesnt seem too much different than stock.. could there be a problem? im thinking because they are underpowered? is this a bad thing to do?
how underpowered are they? whats the RMS of the speaker and the RMS of the amp? did you set your gains correctly (or accurately)? did you tweak the settings on the amp/HU? do you have them crossed over correctly?
what speakers are they again?
make sure they arent out of phase or anything, check +/- connections and such.
I think he's running those speaks off the h/u for the time being. Not sounding much better makes sense. Stock speakers are generally a lot more efficient. He should notice a bigger difference once he adds a bit of power.
from a head unit, no speakers will sound that phenominal.
add an amplifier to drive the speakers and you'll see a lot more improvement.
you're not hurting them with less power though as long as tehy aren't distorting and the head unit isn't clipping.
i just ran it off of the HU to see the difference amped and unamped. my friend and i will be installing my amp sometime in a week or two(eclipse EA3422)
you should get a lot more definition with the amp, and much warmer midbass/lower end response from the drivers as the added power helps move that cone mass when it needs to.
