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DVC subs?

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Forum Name: Car Audio
Forum Discription: Car Stereos, Amplifiers, Crossovers, Processors, Speakers, Subwoofers, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=69802
Printed Date: May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM


Topic: DVC subs?

Posted By: pimpedprobegt
Subject: DVC subs?
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 12:29 AM

If you wire 4 DVC subwoofers, with 3 having the voice coils in series, and one having the voice coil in parallel, would it change the output of the three series subs compared to the one parallel sub???  Also I bought an MTX 81001 which is 1 ohm stable.  Is it really hard onthe amp to run it at .5 or .8 ohms?

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Posted By: menace2sobriety
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 12:41 AM

Never wire subs separately/differently to an amp.... ive done that before and threw the voice coil out of the motor and it landed on the magnet of the sub.,.....no good.
Running an amp under the recommended ohm rating voids the warranty. there are few amps that can do this a mtx is one of them but i would not recomend it.





Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 12:52 AM

pimpedprobegt wrote:

would it change the output of the three series subs compared to the one parallel sub?

Oh yes.  That one sub would receive four times the power than each of the other three subs.



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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: January 02, 2006 at 5:37 PM

Which of course will lead to sss (smelly speaker syndrome), so not the best of ideas to do. Yes it is very hard o nthe amp to run it at an impedence it was not designed or engineered to operate at. That leads to sas (smelly amplifier syndrome), so again, not the best of ideas.



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