I have a 87 bronco with a kenwook kdc115s stereo cd player. It has 2- kenwood 6x9 triaxles and 2 kenwood 4in coaxials in the door.What I want to know is I have 4-6in woofers and 4 tweeters that I built and installed in the rear of my bronco,can I hook up the rest of the speakers up without problems.My stereo is 4 channel and Im wondering can i hook them up parallel without harming the stereo or having distortion. Or would it be feasable to hook them up in series.Is it possible to hook up two of the channels in series and leave two front speakers hook up one per channel. Is there possibly an adapter to keep the ohms right and hook up several speakers.I would appreciate any help I can get.
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ttocs on 10/27/2003 23:06:05
you can do it, but it may not help the sound. It is not the best thing for a deck to be honest, you would be better off getting a seperate amp. If it is a deck that you don't care risking, hook them up parallel to get a 2 ohm load.
Swez on 10/28/2003 10:03:43
I would not risk this as you have a good working HU now. If you do as noted, you may fry the output amps on the HU. An external amp (2 channel) woul help a lot in this type of install.
Also, you'd have no staging of you sound in the manner mentioned... (if I understand your intensions here) To get the best sound at minimal cost, use a quality set of speakers up front. (doors or add kick panels) These can be run off the HU amp or add a muti-channel amp to power the front speakers.
If you use a decent 4 channel amp, can bridge the rear channels for a sub as well. This will give you a very good over all sound package with minimal expense.
Depending on your budget, have some ideas I can toss out for you to review. The 6x9's.. are they in the front doors along with the 4" coaxials too? A nice 6.5" Component set will fit in that 6x9 opening with a few modifications. Can always use the 4" coaxials or x9's in the rear as rear fill... then add a sub. All depends on your budget and how much work you are willing to put into this project.
mdh627 on 10/28/2003 12:31:53
What I have Swez is 2 - 4in coaxials in the front doors,2-6x9 triaxles in the side panels along side the back seat.Now I built a nice set of box speakers and set them up in the rear area behind the back seat.They are built in a nice box. Each box containing 2 - 6in woofers and 2-3in tweeters with a 300watt capacity.So I have a total of 4 woofers and 4 tweeters I want to hookup.I have already tried them out and they sound great but I want to try running all of the speakers together and see what it sounds like
ttocs on 10/28/2003 12:55:24
You are taking a risk, but I don't know if anything would happen. Try hooking them up and letting it play at low volume for a while. If the deck is getting very hot, scrap it....
mdh627 on 10/28/2003 13:01:16
what if I bought two amp and the two rear channels of my stereo and than drive the rear speakers and put the other four speakers I already have on the other two channels would that work
Swez on 10/28/2003 19:16:27
OK, getting the picture better now.
These 6" woofers you have now... do you know what ohm rating each woofer is? It also sounds like you have good bass and highs in the rear already which makes the 6x9's somewhat redundant and inferior to the 6" kits you have back there now.
If this were my install, I would amp the front coaxials and also the rear 6" boxes only. If you really want to keep the 6x9's in the rear, can use the HU amp for that. However, there may be some cancellations and phase problems noted (drop outs in mids and high) as the big box fights to overcome the audio from the x9's crossing into the sound waves of you nice box design. That's why I suggest not using the x9's here. To much crossfire in mids and highs.
Tell more about this box you made for the rear section. It will help us figure out what ohm load you have in this box if you explain how it's all wired up OK?
Swez
Replies (6)
ttocs on 10/27/2003 23:06:05
you can do it, but it may not help the sound. It is not the best thing for a deck to be honest, you would be better off getting a seperate amp. If it is a deck that you don't care risking, hook them up parallel to get a 2 ohm load.
Swez on 10/28/2003 10:03:43
I would not risk this as you have a good working HU now. If you do as noted, you may fry the output amps on the HU. An external amp (2 channel) woul help a lot in this type of install.
Also, you'd have no staging of you sound in the manner mentioned... (if I understand your intensions here) To get the best sound at minimal cost, use a quality set of speakers up front. (doors or add kick panels) These can be run off the HU amp or add a muti-channel amp to power the front speakers.
If you use a decent 4 channel amp, can bridge the rear channels for a sub as well. This will give you a very good over all sound package with minimal expense.
Depending on your budget, have some ideas I can toss out for you to review. The 6x9's.. are they in the front doors along with the 4" coaxials too? A nice 6.5" Component set will fit in that 6x9 opening with a few modifications. Can always use the 4" coaxials or x9's in the rear as rear fill... then add a sub. All depends on your budget and how much work you are willing to put into this project.
mdh627 on 10/28/2003 12:31:53
What I have Swez is 2 - 4in coaxials in the front doors,2-6x9 triaxles in the side panels along side the back seat.Now I built a nice set of box speakers and set them up in the rear area behind the back seat.They are built in a nice box. Each box containing 2 - 6in woofers and 2-3in tweeters with a 300watt capacity.So I have a total of 4 woofers and 4 tweeters I want to hookup.I have already tried them out and they sound great but I want to try running all of the speakers together and see what it sounds like
ttocs on 10/28/2003 12:55:24
You are taking a risk, but I don't know if anything would happen. Try hooking them up and letting it play at low volume for a while. If the deck is getting very hot, scrap it....
mdh627 on 10/28/2003 13:01:16
what if I bought two amp and the two rear channels of my stereo and than drive the rear speakers and put the other four speakers I already have on the other two channels would that work
Swez on 10/28/2003 19:16:27
OK, getting the picture better now.
These 6" woofers you have now... do you know what ohm rating each woofer is? It also sounds like you have good bass and highs in the rear already which makes the 6x9's somewhat redundant and inferior to the 6" kits you have back there now.
If this were my install, I would amp the front coaxials and also the rear 6" boxes only. If you really want to keep the 6x9's in the rear, can use the HU amp for that. However, there may be some cancellations and phase problems noted (drop outs in mids and high) as the big box fights to overcome the audio from the x9's crossing into the sound waves of you nice box design. That's why I suggest not using the x9's here. To much crossfire in mids and highs.
Tell more about this box you made for the rear section. It will help us figure out what ohm load you have in this box if you explain how it's all wired up OK?
Swez
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