One of my friends, who is 'auto-savvy' said that JL Subs should never be run in pairs, but rather in odds (ie, 1 or 3 at a time, not 2). He didn't give me any explanation, but rather he heard it from some sort of audio/video installer. Is this true? or is he full of old wives tales??

thanks.

BTW, I have stock everything in a 1997 2.2 CL. It's not BOSE though. Don't know what it is. Looking to upgrade soon. Might take it one step at a time. might have this car for another 3+ years, and I want to enjoy music while I have it.

 

Crack smoker.

 

me or my friend?

btw, I read several of your posts. they are great and resourceful, thank you!

 

this is an old idea from way back when..... way back when the original w6's came out, they were dual 6 ohm, that way if you ran just one, u can wire it to be 3 ohm, which you can really squeeze out the juice from your amp which isn't as harmfull to most bridged amps as running it at 2 ohms, and if you had three you can wire it to run at 4 ohm which is really stable on an amp that's being bridged, lots of people i kno ran 3 w6 12's back then.....

 

yeah that shit doesnt work now, they are all d2, d4 or d6

phew.. u scurrd me I have two JL 12w3-d4! I was about to go buy another!


KIDDING!

 

He must like his boobs in odd numbers too, or is he just odd?

 

It does work for d6. And if you had a really ballsy amp back then like an old PG M100 or any of the Orion HCCA amps you could run two W6 subs and really crank out some juice. Back in my highschool days I had an Orion HCCA-250 that ran my two 12W6 D6 subs. I ran all the voice coils in parallel. Came out to a 1.5 ohm load.

 

Doesn't mean that one is "better" - means that sometimes it's a good idea and sometimes it's not.

 

amps see impedence(s), not number of subs, so just make sure your math is right and you know the difference between series, paralell, and series-paralell wiring and as long as your amp sees an impedence it can handle, you're all set. just remember that the lower impedenced your amp sees may make a bit more power, the sound will suffer due to a lack of the ability for the control the cone movement as well as in highes impedences. jps