Stereo Makeover

I hate the hole! This one is worse than my last boat and it was a closed bow! :mad:

Ya i know about that hole. I have gotten stuck before and that was not good. Next time i do anywork in there i will remove the batterys.

Mike that GF sounds like a keeper. Have to watchout for woman like that.

Which way do you recomend splitting a four channel amp to six speakers
I'v been reading your posts for info and getting ready to install six momo's
and a four ch amp 720watts would love to do your set up but two kids in university is killing the bank account.my head unit is a sony xplod
Thanks

Northofthe49th, no problem to do that. Parallel wire the four main cabin speakers to channels 1 & 2. In otherwords run the wires from the port side pair to channel 1, and the starboard pair to channel 2. Now connect the two bow speakers to channels 3 (port) & 4 (starboard). Tune your amp to the main cabin speakers as they'll be recieving more power than the bow speakers.

when you run them in parallel does that drop the resistance from 4 ohms to 2 ohms? or why does it put more power to those speakers?

Yes it drops them to 2ohms which if i remember correctly make the amp more efficient hence additional power. This also causes some amps to run hotter. I think all of your name brand amps are 2ohm stable now. I know my Kicker ZX series are and they don't run hot at all hardly.

Newty that about explains it correctly i think?

I got a quick question here. For example Razz is using a total of two amps with a total of 9 channels. And his head unit same as mine has three pre outs for rca cables. So my question is basically how do you run rca cables for the rest of the channels? Or do you have do you have to use a different method?

On the main cabin i'm using a Kicker ZX700.5 five channel amp. The main cabins are connected parallel to channels 1/2. The bow speakers are connected to 3/4 and the sub to the class D channel. A Kicker ZX650.4 is running the four towers, one to each channel.

So on the Pioneer the front preout RCAs are going to the four channels of the 700.5. The rear preouts are going to the 650.4 and the sub preout is going to the sub inputs on the 700.5.

Does that make sense?

Does that mean you have RCA splitters for the front and rear preouts? Because on the 700.5 amp you need two RCA cables for the cabin and on RCA cable for the sub. And for the rear preout you also need two RCA cables. Don't you?

You need one pair for each channel so you'd have to split it unless you have the newer Kicker which detect the signal for both inputs with just one set of RCAs with the flick of a switch.