Car Sub and Home stereo question

Originally Posted by Flubflow

However boombastic your bass may be, do make sure to remove that little pink & white plastic handbag you have there. Even the the saucy Abi Titmus poster you have on the door will not fully cancel this out.

Its not mine

the sub has no amp built in but the stereo does

[punky]

Originally Posted by Angelus

Well i think the RMS is 350W

So the sub's RMS wattage is 10w lower than the stereo's RMS.

Hmmm... Tough one to call. I would say don't use it, but its only 10w difference... It will probably just slowly distort and damage rather than melting the coil instantly. I can't say for sure though. It might even be fine.

I can't guarantee it won't be damaged, but it probably won't unless you hammer it for a long time. I'd just play safe and not use it though. Your call.

It will be only connected for about a month and i hardly use the stereo now apart from dvds and PS2.

Use my PC for music

also the amp in my car which normally powers this is a 400W amp

[Flubflow]

Does the amp have one sub output or does it have 2 (one for each stereo channel)?

[Millay]

I would check how you hasve your speakers set out, it looks to me like you have them all in the same place, they ned to be sread ou so you get the proper surround stereo affect...

Well i got a pic but its blurry

On my amp is 4 speaker inputs.

2 for right and 2 for left

[Flubflow]

Originally Posted by Angelus

Well i got a pic but its blurry

On my amp is 4 speaker inputs.

2 for right and 2 for left

Can't really see anything useful there. Are those 4 terminals. i.e. +ve & -ve for left and +ve & -ve for the right?
If so I don't know how in the hell you'd expect to connect one single sub-woofer there.
TBH, you are better off forgetting about it. It does not look like that ilk of amp has a single auxilliary middle sub-woofer output and so any fartarsing around by piggybacking it onto an already used speaker output would halve the impedance and damage the amp (assuming the sub is the same impedance as the existing speakers).

Right i just took another look

Above each connection it says -r and +r and -L and +L

And something about bridged mode

[Jules]

Having no idea about the ins and outs of all this I used the pics to have a good look round his room

[Flubflow]

er, briged mode is something that is usually used to make two amps (i.e. a stereo amp) bridge into one single more powerful amp for mono. Can't see why a HiFi would have a bridged mode. Are we looking at the back of the Hi-Fi and not your car amp?

Originally Posted by whyme38

Having no idea about the ins and outs of all this I used the pics to have a good look round his room

Want some more
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Originally Posted by Flubflow

er, briged mode is something that is usually used to make two amps (i.e. a stereo amp) bridge into one single more powerful amp for mono. Can't see why a HiFi would have a bridged mode. Are we looking at the back of the Hi-Fi and not your car amp?

Back of my car amp

[Flubflow]

Originally Posted by Angelus

Back of my car amp

Why?


Well I say you forget it unless you can get someone on site who can see whats what and knows that they are doing.

[pop80_uk]

I have no real idea why you would want to do this as the sub woofer in the two main speaker of your technics system will be balanced to the rest of the system and impedence of the main amp. Although to do it you would need a two way cross over and an external amp to drive the car sub only. Its possible but you would also need a cross fader to ensure the speaker was balanced, also looking at your room it seems on the small side and the amount of air the sub would displace would probably mean you would end up with a very un-balanced sound.

On a lesser note, if you like the Buffy and angel videos on the top of your unit I would remove them from the sub, as unless it is shielded it will damage the videos.

Thanks

...and tidy your room - it's a mess!

BTW - What's Cabin Fever like??

Lee

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

...and tidy your room - it's a mess!

BTW - What's Cabin Fever like??

Lee

Its good