2 amps one sub

I bought a second amp for the 6x9's. Its a kenwood 250 watt 2 channel amp. I was wondering if I could hook a second amp up to the sub.I have a pioneer 12' sub and Have a 240 watt kenwood mono amp hook up to it.

No, you cannot use two amps to drive one sub unless they are specificly designed to be bridged together.  Your Kenwoods are not so designed.

DYohn] wrote:

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No, you cannot use two amps to drive one sub unless they are specificly designed to be bridged together.  Your Kenwoods are not so designed.

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I think you miss read him, he want's to hook 1 amp to his 6X9's and the other to his sub, (unless i'm miss-reading) just need distro blocks for the hot wires.!

I have both amps hooked up I just I wanted to see how much more bass I would have with two of them hooked up to the sub. Will I blow my amps if I hook them up?

Yes you could.  You could also tear the sub apart.  Don't do it.

Yea, dont connect the other amp. unless you're the kinda person who just tosses money out the window, i wouldnt advise it. :)

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1990 Honda Civic HB:
Clarion DXZ545MP H.U.
2- 6.5" Power Acoustik interiors
Diamond Audio 600.1 amp
Diamond Audio 15" M6MKII
Pyramid PB881X 4 CH. Amp

You can use 2 amps only if the sub is designed to be used with 2

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1 Lightning Audio S2.600.2 Amp
2 Lightning Audio 12" Subs
1 Lightning Audio 1 Farad Cap

i want to learn how to hook up 2 amps

one for my sub woofers. and one for my 6x9 speakers.!

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BangBang wrote:

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i want to learn how to hook up 2 amps

one for my sub woofers. and one for my 6x9 speakers.!

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get two D blocks.  one for power and one for ground.

as far as two amps to one sub, unless you have a DVC sub its useless and retarded.  if you do have a DVC, youd be retareded to do it with out knowing if you matched your amps outputs EXACTLY.  that means you have to have 2 identical amps that have extreme build tolerances (so not some sonly xplod amp, it has to be quality).  usually to do that (matching gains), you have to have a signal generator and an o-scope to watch the waves.  its not that often you see a quad-coil sub hooked up to one amp, usually each coil is 1ohm, and you use 4 perfectly matched amps to drive 1ohm mono.

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MECP certified installer

On a DVC woofer, NEVER hook two seperate amps to the coils!!!  Even with two amps that are "the same," it is a VERY, VERY BAD idea to use them on one woofer.  Here's why: the (sometimes subtle, sometimes gross) differences between the amps and the components thay are made from will cause differences in the signals, no matter how clean and perfectly matched the input you are giving them and no matter how "matched" they seem to be.  It is physically IMPOSSIBLE for two amplifiers (or for any two pieces of electronic equipment, no matter how well biult) to have the exact same performance.  Impossible.   The differences will result in forces on the VC that try to move the voice coil in different directions at the same time.  This will limit the woofer's output, can cause the voice coil windings to fry when they stop moving, and/or can literally rip the voice coil right off the former (the part that moves the woofer cone.  I have seen this happen.)  The only way to make sure two seperate amps have the same output is if they are designed to work together and use a feedback circuit between them to adjust each one's output automatically so that the differences are compensated for.  There are amps designed to do this and ONLY these can be bridged together to drive a single speaker.  Any other setup is a recepie for disaster.  It may seem to work for a while, but in the long run you will fry your speaker.

BangBang wrote:

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i want to learn how to hook up 2 amps

one for my sub woofers. and one for my 6x9 speakers.!

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I drew this up for you.  See if it makes sense.  There are other approaches, but this will give you the idea.