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Old Oct 14, 2005 | 02:02 PM
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I got a power acoutik amp that is 370wx2 rms and two 12" sony explods that are 350w rms 1300w max. HOw can i hook it up to briged mode? Will a 20watt difference burn my subs?
Old Oct 14, 2005 | 04:42 PM
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One positive terminal and one negative terminal on the speaker outputs, it should say which two are the ones to use if you bridge it out. It shoudln't be a problem however, if you still fall within the return policy of wherever you bought the subs from I highly suggest returning them, unless you intend on only running them at a very low volume level and not that often the surrounds on the drivers have terrible pressure points that are created by the sweet design they came up with. even if you just exchange them for some pioneer's or something get rid of those, they will come back and bite you in the ***. I cannot tell you how many of those I have seen come back because of malfunction usually because of the surrounds.
Old Oct 14, 2005 | 11:07 PM
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I've actually had Audiobahns before and i fried the s*** out of em so bad it looked like fireworks, then i got these for about a year now and i could only say good things about them, i am running these on a GMC Envoy not a mustang.
Old Oct 17, 2005 | 05:16 PM
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This means your amp will most likely be 740W in the bridged mode. That seems pretty risky for a couple of 12" Sony's to me. But more importantly you need to know the ohm rating of the amp in the stereo mode, and also in the bridge mode - as well as the subs?? I'm not sure I see the benefit of pushing (2) 350W subs with double the power of their capacity. Two 12's run in stereo mode, getting 108% of their power capacity seems to me that it would be a nice and efficient system.

If you bridge it, then your just going to limit yourself on how loud you can crank it before you do blow them. Plus you'll have to re-tune your whole system (most likely turning the amp gain way down, and bass control of the head unit) so the subs don't drown out your main speakers.
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