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So I have been reseraching on the internet how to set up two amps for my truck, but I have some questions about ohms, and watts...I am going to be running four 6 1/4 Kickers off of a 4 channel amp, the amp was given to me by my brother-in-law, it is a little older but works great. It is a DHD NTX-2008 175 x 4. The kickers are 50watt RMS and 100watts peak and they are 4ohm speakers. From what I gather the amp produces 55w @ 4ohms with 4 channels;

 

 

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Now I a may be totally reading this wrong, but I think I will be ok running these speakes with this amp? My question is should I hook the speakers up in a series or parrallel? And if this amp would blow the speakers, can I prevent that by adjusting the gain?

 

Any help would be apreciated.

 

By the way I have my sub in and it is running off of a 50watt 1 channel amp, the kickers arent installed yet, just using the stock speakers.

 

Thanks in advance guys!

 

Ashton

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Well in theory you will hook them up in parallel but since it is a 4 chan amp you will just wire each chan to a speaker, for the fronts you will lose the factory tweeters unless you wire them to the door speakers

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I figured that much, thanks for point it out though, never thought about the tweeter, what I am really worried about is what will happen to the 50 watt speakers themselves, if I will blow them with the amp.

 

 

Well in theory you will hook them up in parallel but since it is a 4 chan amp you will just wire each chan to a speaker, for the fronts you will lose the factory tweeters unless you wire them to the door speakers
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I have never heard of that brand of amp and for an amp to actually produce legitimate 175 x 4 it would be one hell of an amp, I mean you would be paying about $800 for that sort of power. I would say you are going to be just fine powering that speakers with that.

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