Amplifier Load?

I'm looking at powering a pair of 10" Skar sub's rated at 600/1200 each with a Soundstream mono claiming to be 1 ohm stable and rated 1700 watts at 1 ohm or 1100 watts 2 ohm. The sub's are dual voice coil and I can get them in either 2 or 4 ohm so there's plenty of options to wire them. My question is would it be better on my amp and performance to wire subs to 1 ohm load and turn the gain down more or wire them at 2 ohm load with the gain set higher. Thanks for any thoughts.

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at 2 ohms the amps gonna work less, heat up less and have less distortion. 1 ohm is gonna make it work twice as hard since you are doubling the power output anddoubling everything. Gain is not a volume, it is to match what ever source you are getting your audio from. If the after market cd player rca's are putting out 4 volts you set the gains at 4 volts if the deck is sending out 2 volt set the amp gain to 2 volts

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33 years as a installer now just a retired old guy. Favorite thing to install/topic are remote starts/car alarms. Stop using test lights!!!

Thank you for the insight! I've always assumed the gains controlled the output of the amp, so essentially lowering the gain would reduce heat and distortion.

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