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When you guys are wiring 2 speaker's in parallel are you running +/- from amp to 1st speaker and 1st speaker to 2nd? Or are you running both speaker wires to the amp and connecting it there?
 
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Speaker wires from both speakers straight to the amp.
But it can be done both ways.
 
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Speaker wires from both speakers straight to the amp.
But it can be done both ways.
That's what I thought but wanted to check.
 
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Originally Posted by SBates08
Speaker wires from both speakers straight to the amp.
But it can be done both ways.
Sbates08, forgive my ignorance but I thought that running from amp to speaker 1, then speaker 1 to speaker to was “in series” and increased the ohm load? I thought that parallel was amp + to both speaker + and amp - to both speaker -; and bridged was bridged amp + to both speaker + and bridged amp - to both speaker -.

Thanks for clarifying and making me less dumb.
 
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Sbates08, forgive my ignorance but I thought that running from amp to speaker 1, then speaker 1 to speaker to was “in series” and increased the ohm load? I thought that parallel was amp + to both speaker + and amp - to both speaker -; and bridged was bridged amp + to both speaker + and bridged amp - to both speaker -.

Thanks for clarifying and making me less dumb.
Paralleling...from + on amp to + on first speaker then daisy chaining to + on 2nd speaker is the exact same as running the + from each speaker directly to the amp.
Series...amp + to speaker 1 +, speaker 1 - to speaker 2 +, speaker 2 - to amp -
 
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Originally Posted by SBates08
Paralleling...from + on amp to + on first speaker then daisy chaining to + on 2nd speaker is the exact same as running the + from each speaker directly to the amp.
Series...amp + to speaker 1 +, speaker 1 - to speaker 2 +, speaker 2 - to amp -
Thanks for explaining that!
 
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