CECAA850 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Westcoastdrums said: I understand what you are saying, and I agree, to a point. Where I disagree with you is that if I feed a four ohm load into an amplifier rated at 4 ohms bridged mono capability with a published power rating on paper, it WILL receive that power rating. I am presenting a 4 ohm load and the subs will get 2400 watts RMS. I don't think a disagreement can exist about that? EDIT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 Right. But my drivers are 8 ohm and 8 ohms. They are not 2 ohms. I have two options, stereo with 500 WPC or 2400 watts RMS bridged mono into 4 ohms, which is what I will be doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 With all due respect, I know what I am doing and talking about here. I know you are very knowledgeable on many things audio, I'm just not sure about the disagreement on this one. Anyhow, got a couple leads on K2s thus far and will close this thread as soon as I find what I am looking for. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 10 minutes ago, Westcoastdrums said: With all due respect, I know what I am doing and talking about here. I know you are very knowledgeable on many things audio, I'm just not sure about the disagreement on this one. Anyhow, got a couple leads on K2s thus far and will close this thread as soon as I find what I am looking for. Thanks. Sorry to thread crap. My apologies. Will take it to a brief PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 All good man. Haha. I just figured people don't wanna listen to us go on and on about how to run a pair of subwoofers paralleled into an amp and what power output will result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Westcoastdrums said: All good man. Haha. I just figured people don't wanna listen to us go on and on about how to run a pair of subwoofers paralleled into an amp and what power output will result. You figure wrong, even if it happens to be on a WTB thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 OK since I figure wrong, you are welcome to chime in and give your 2 cents. Do you figure if I feed a bridged mono amp rated at 2400 watts RMS into 4 ohms a 4 ohm load that the power output will somehow not increase as rated over 8 ohm stereo 😏? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Not at all.. I'm following and learning as you two go back and forth. I was arguing that you figured incorrectly that "people don't want to listen to us go on and on about".. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 Haha OK then to learn, I will tell you I am 100% confident in what I am saying. I have bridged many amplifiers. If the power output is the same, why does the amp heat up so much hotter and the level must be reduced much further for the same output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Well, I'm interested also. Someone starts talking about the Crown K2, it gets my attention. The amp doesn't get much notice these days, after all. So something's better than nothing. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 Looks like I'm picking up a pair tonight.... Well see soon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Wish I would have seen this earlier in the day. When you bridge an amplifiers output the load gets cut in half(half the ohms, double the current). So for instance as in @Westcoastdrums application his 4 ohm load is going to look like a 2 ohm load to the amps output. Each output post sees the speaker not as a 4 ohm load to ground but as a 4 ohm load to a voltage that is equal in magnitude but opposite in polarity effectively making it look like 2 ohms to ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 deleted, just in case. If anyone is interested, type into Google, measuring amplifiers Crown k2, on Avs forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockhound Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Congrats @Westcoastdrums I have one and will never part with it these old school K series crowns are beast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I agree. I have three of them (not bridged) and think they do a fine job....though they are perhaps a bit overkill in my situation. Kind of irked myself after my drywall was done and we installed the Danley sub. Had I known the Danley would get approved prior to the drywall, I would have doubled the wires to it so I could have run each driver in the Danley to a single channel on the Crown. As it is, I run them both on one channel. Tis still certainly sufficient. and I can always bridge it I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Though this K2 may need a bit of work, the price might be right to get one in purple. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Purple-Crown-K2-Power-Amplifier-QSC-Behringer-Marantz-Denon-JBL/163407722006?hash=item260bdbf616:g:aXwAAOSwMOtcAf-t:rk:4:pf:0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 Purple rain. Yeah I wish I would have gotten them in some psychedelic color, but that just wasn't an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 16 hours ago, Shiva said: some K2 numbers from being bench tested back in 2007, over at AVS. I got a virus attempt when reading that. Just a heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 interesting, it is just an old thread over on the AVS forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 15 minutes ago, CECAA850 said: I got a virus attempt when reading that. Just a heads up. Thanks for the heads up if that wasn't a joke. Hadn't clicked it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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