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Old Jun 4, 2012 | 03:33 PM
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I just received the lowers for my SG and want to put speakers in them.
Money is kind of tight right now, so I want to keep the prices down.
I am running this amp.http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...-LiteBox2.html, and have J&M 7.25s in the fairing, which are 2 ohm speakers. I have been looking at the Polk mm651s, which I found for 115.00 including shipping. These are rated at 2.7ohms. Or would it be better to use a different speaker?
Would it be best to run the speakers in series or parallel?
Also so are you guys drilling your crash bars and running the wires inside, or just taping the wires to the bottom of the crash bar?
TIA Bob
 
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Old Jun 4, 2012 | 03:56 PM
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The Polk Audio speakers are nice speakers. But with that being said sound is very subjective, what you like I might not like and vice versa.

On your second question you will need to run that setup in series as your amp is rated for 90 Watts @ 4 Ohms or 125 Watts @ 2 Ohms. But you have to do a little math to determine Impedance (Series: 2Ohms + 2.7 Ohms = 4.7 Ohms) or
(Parallel: (2 Ohms) x (2.7 Ohms) / (2 Ohms + 2.7 Ohms) = 1.15 Ohms which your Amp is unstable at and will ultimately burn the Amp up.

The other stuff I can't answer.

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Thanks Mike, so I guess with this amp any speakers would have to be wired in series in order to have 4 speakers.
If it doesn't matter whether the speakers are 2, 2.7, or 4 ohm, are there better speakers out there for the money than the Polk mm651s?

Thanks, Bob
 
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