Now that I realized I should probably spend some more money on speakers I need to save up. So I have my JL amp here and I was wondering would it be worth it to get it installed and hooked up to the factory front speakers (04 TSX) for the time being. I would definetely still splice RCA's to the head unit outputs and the whole nine but I'm just a little unsure how the speakers should be wired to the new amp. Should I run the tweeter and mid in series and raise the load to 8 ohms or is this not necessary??(My amp is a 2 channel 75 Watts RMS x 2 at 4 ohms).

Just looking for a decent solution until I can afford some nice new speakers and Im going to get the amp installed no matter what. Thanks

 

Dude, you ask a lot of questions.

The xovers for the factory speakers are in the OEM amp. If you connect them to an aftermarket amp they will have no xovers at all. The tweets will blow. The mids will sound bad and you might blow them too.

And don't ever series tweets and mids.

 

increase the ohm load to 8ohms??? if you run 2 4 ohm speakers inline, you'll decrease the ohm load to 2 ohms.

 

in parallel it would be 2 ohms and in series it would be 8

 

Boys, impedance is a function of frequency, not an absolute. That's the diff between AC impedance and resistance, which is a DC value.

So if you connect 4 ohm woofers, and 4 ohm mids, and 4 ohm tweeters all in parallel to an amp, BUT you have passive crossovers which prevent the speakers from overlapping and playing the same notes, your NOMINAL impedance is still 4 ohms.

The reason that multiple woofers in parallel drop the impedance load is because the woofers are all playing the same note.