if I were to take my soundstream pn1000.4D and bridge it so it's 500x2 at 4 ohms can I get 2 mmats pa601's 8 ohm and run them off one channel in parallel to achieve a final 4 ohm load for that channel? Then do the same for the other channel with 2 horns at 8 ohms?

 

You really do not need that power for those speakers. Second when you bridge that type of budget amp you chances of getting dirty power increase significantly. Keep the mids 8 ohm. If you really want 4 ohm buy the 4 ohm version instead. I have found in more than one instance with the high sensitivity mids you do not need a ton of power to them.

 

Ok gotcha ����I was just trying to make use with what I Have already amp wise, and the only reason I wanted 8 ohm speaker was I thought when you wire 2 speakers in parallel it drops impedance. You think that if I hooked up 2 8 ohm 6.5s in parallel to a bridged 500w channel and set the target vac around 37.5 it'll give around 175watts to each speaker? And that won't be clean?

 

They are not a huge power hungry speaker. They can maybe take 150 each tops with the right crossover and high slope cutoff at a very high frequency like 120hz at least on the hp slope. The point is to put that much to them is pointless. Also that amp is clean to a point and then gets very dirty very fast. Do as you want but it isn't a road worth taking. Again if you want to, have at it , but the difference will be minimal. I personally would keep them 8 ohm stereo or swap to a pair of the 4 ohm version.

 

Have you actually hooked them up and listened to them yet? Your not going to need that much power to them at all. And the horns won't take that much power anyway. My suggestion would be to run a mid and horn in parallel on one channel, tune the amp and see what you think. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

I'm only sending my Mmats 601s and 801s about 110 watts a piece and they are loud and clean. The most I have heard going to these is 150 watts and he was using a DSP to carefully control that power.

 

I'm running Mmats 601 (with DD horns parallel) off of 2 channels on the same amp. Plenty of power. I'm about 120 watts. At 80mph, with ear plugs, it's still loud and clean. My next step is going to be a tiny amp just for horns to turn them down.

 

Think of your amp as a water pump as electricity and water act in a similar manner.

The water pump is trying to push water thru a 8 inch hose (8 ohm speaker) as it takes very little effort to move a lot of water. Then when you down size the hose (lower the ohm rating on the speaker) it take more pressure (power from the amp) to move the same amount of volume.
So in all regards the lower the ohm rating the more power you have to feed it to get LOUD.
There are other factors that play into the equation also but this is the simplest way to describe the situation.

 

i currently have Polk db6501 comps hooked up with 130 watts going to them and my exhaust still kind of overpowers, I'm just looking to get an extra boost mainly

 

i havent ordered them, I currently have db6501 comps with about 130 watts goin to them. If I ran the horn AND mid off one channel how would I EQ it? Don't I need the horns to be on their own channel so I can set the hpf at 3500-4500? And the mids around 100?