lower load or more power

Well messed around with it bridging and unbridging to see what sounded best and after about an hour of that I believe it is still getting more power in stereo mode. I think I am just going to have to break down and buy another gmx972. Which I think for 200.00 thats a decent amount of clean power besides being 2 amps. Eat, Drink, & Be Merry.......

I was worried about that. I didn't think your amp would have a problem handeling an 8ohm bridged load, but I wasn't sure about the final RMS rating. I was hoping it would have at least been higher than 300, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Once you get that other amp you'll be set (at least until the next upgrade )Squirrel

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Yep that's just the thing my little sister just got home from the beach and one of the first things she said was that she wanted tweeters and an amp. So more to order and more to install. Do you know of any decent to very good kenwood tweeters and a 4ch amp to power them. She's on the matching kick now too. I haven't really researched Kenwood very much. Eat, Drink, & Be Merry.......

Yea, my wife just got back from the beach too, but I found out that she had company Anyway... The Kenwood amp that I have is decent, it just isn't strong enough to run all my components. It would be strong enough to run 4 tweeters though (KAC-649S). It's only 30x4@4 ohms, 40x4@2ohms, and 80x2@4ohms bridged. But MSRP is only $200-250 Kenwood makes 3 models of tweeters right now... KFC-XT14: Titanium, 3/4", 200 watt, 4ohm, $150 KFC-T204: PEI balanced, 3/4", 150 watt, 4ohm, $70-100 KFC-ST30: Add-on, 1", 120 watt, 4ohm, $50-100 The first 2 come with seperate crossovers, while the 3rd one has a built in filter. Depending on how loud she wants the tweeters (and I assuming you said she wanted 4?) then you might look at the KAC-849 to power them. It's 50x4@4ohms, 75x4@2ohms, and 150x2@4ohms bridged. MSRP is $350-450 Or does she want a 4-channel amp to power 2 tweeters and 2 front component speakers?Squirrel

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Unfortunately I haven't used their tweeters before, and I don't want to give anyone an unjustified opinion. Their amps are reliable though, but not as strong (power rating wise) as some other manufactures. That's the biggest drawback to staying with only 1 company Squirrel

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Yep I believe after the 4runner I'm done with one company set-ups, I like variety I also like mixing and matching for optimum performance. There are however a couple of brands I have been or been meaning to research and those are planet audio and JL, (particularly12w7). Although I tend to stay away from the bass only oriented systems, and comp stuff. I strive to get excellent all around sound. Which my pioneer setup has that, thats why i wasn't to worried about giving the subs more juice. I like for the music to sound like I am frontstage at the concert or right in the studio w/ them. It also is a benefit, when it comes around to be able to turn the gain up and blow away some of my friends setups. But other than that I don't really need earth rumbling power. Eat, Drink, & Be Merry.......

It sounds like your only problem is your amp. That amp wont let you bridge mono with a 2 ohm load. You are stuck running them mono in series or running each sub on each channel, which wont wont be in stereo anyways because low frequency tracks on recordings are in mono and will be underpowered. You could risk all and try a mono parallel hook up(risk blowing the amp). If you can swing it buy another one of those amps. But the price of those 2 amps could have bought you a kick ass amp that will do what you want it to do(2ohms bridged). Hope this helps