DVC vs. SVC

Basically a with SVC you can run 2 bridged on a mono amp,if you have the space! If not, you can run 1 DVC,which will make the amp think it is 2 subs instead of 1!So it still gives out the power of running 2 subs.

Or another advantage it you can run mutiple DVC subs and wire it to think its only running 2. Say 4 DVC's will run like 2 SVC's wired in parallel.

Or if you amp will only take on SVC bridged,you can wire 2 DVC subs to make the amp think it is only running 1 SVC.

Simplist way i can explain it.There are alot of advantages and disadvantages.Here is a link to help better explian it!

http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/spkrmlti.htm

Whatever you get you'd better be sure of the DVC's ohm ratings.  Some companies make them in all different sizes like dual 4 ohm, dual 2 ohm, or dual 3 ohm.  This will make a difference to the amp's power output.  Could make it hard to wire down to a low enough load without being too low.

You have to remember, two equal voice coils rated at the same ohm loads when wired in series or end to end, makes twice as much resistance.  Two equal voice coils of the same ohm rating wired in parallel equals a total that is only 1/2 of one of the voice coils alone(example -- 4 ohm and 4 ohm in parallel is 2 ohms total).

Just a quick correction here.  Mono amps can't be bridged.  There's only one channel.

Normally this language technicality wouldn't be a problem, but I don't want folks to think mono and 2 channel bridgable amplifiers work exactly the same way.

All but a very select few 2-channel amplifiers are NOT stable at less than 4-ohms bridged.  This is very important to remember when selecting amplifiers.  That D5 600.2 has a MINIMUM impedence of 4-ohms when bridged.  2-ohms is probably not stable.  1-ohm is _certainly_ not stable.  NONE of diamond's 2 channel amplifiers recommend less than a 4-ohm load bridged - even the D7 series.

Also, this 'making the amp think it is 2 subs instead of 1' business is confusing.  The amplifier never cares about the number of subs.  It cares about the final impedence load.  You could load a dozen woofers to the same amplifier.  It doesn't care as long as the impedence load is within its stable region.

Again, I'm not trying to be too picky here, but there are a lot of different subwoofer configurations.  DVC 2-ohm, 4, 6-ohm, 8, SVC 2-ohm, 4, 6, 8, and more.  To talk in terms of 'think 1 sub' confuses the issue and could cause someone else to get it wrong.

Edit:  audeogod beat me to some of this... good post. :-)

I stand corrected again then, the 1200.1 will not work because it is a mono amplifier?

Ok my bad! LOL

Should have been a little more specific i admit! But not knowing sinistars experence with Ohms and amps,i tried to make it as simple as i could. Which was actually for some reason harder for me.Im tierd!

Thanks for the corrections!