Wiring my speakers to my amp properly.

[Siikdude]

Hi there. So I have 4 of these Orion 6.5" Midrange Loudspeaker 1400 Watts Max 4 Ohm Hcca64n and anp orion The CBT4500.4. I have no idea if I have everything connected the best way to get the most out of the speakers. This is some specs of the amp (
4500W 4 Channel Class AB Amplifier
Peak Power at 2 Ohm: 4500 Watts | RMS Power at: 1300 Watts.
Stable at 2 Ohm, Frequency Response: 10Hz to 30kHz (-3dB)
Signal to Noise Ratio: 90dB)
And for the speaker this is the info I found (
Two 6.5" High-Efficiency Midrange Speakers
• 6.5" Black Paper Cone
• 1.5" High-Temperature CCAW Voice Coil
• Neodymium Magnet
• 350W RMS Each Speaker
• 700W Nominal Each Speaker
• 1400W Max Music Power Each Speaker
• 4 Ohm Impedance
• Sensitivity: 99 db/W/M
• Frequency Response: 130Hz-12KHz). I dont even know the correct wire gauge I need for them to be honest.

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[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

The main question is.. Where do you have all 4 speakers located in the vehicle? What Vehicle? I use 100% or as close to 100% Copper 14ga and 12ga for my speaker wiring. and should be just fine for yours.

 

[Doxquzme Premium Member]

First of all, based on the fuse rating of 120 amps, at 14.4v at 65-70% efficiency is going to produce about 275 to 300 wats x 4 channels. I'm always suspect when the manufacturer does not list the actual RMS ratings, it's kind of a dead give away. Class a/B amplifiers are not nearly as efficient as a class D, so 70% would be generous unless I'm missing something. It also does not stipulate if it is 2 ohm stable. I would assume so as it does state that it puts out 1300 watts stereo which would be the four channels bridged to two channels at 4ohms. Your speakers are 4 ohms each, you can run them to each channels and expect around 250-300 watts to each. You could get 4 more and run four pairs at each corner at 2 ohms parallel. You can't run two on each side and run the amp bridged, it's not stable at two ohms bridged, only four ohms bridged so only a single midper channel bridged. As for wiring, 12-16 gauge runs up to 15 feet should be fine, preferably 14awg.

 

[Siikdude]

The main question is.. Where do you have all 4 speakers located in the vehicle? What Vehicle? I use 100% or as close to 100% Copper 14ga and 12ga for my speaker wiring. and should be just fine for yours.

I have then in a jeep wrangler 4 door

 

[Doxquzme Premium Member]

Tweeters or just balls to the walls, loud pro style mids? Seems like waste to put this amplifiers power on a set of tweeters? Staying with the Cobalt motief (only because you already invested in one), I would get the matching two channel:

Amazon product ASIN B08GB8WKJ3
A set of these up front to go along:

Amazon product ASIN B0145RGZ9I
Sell a pair of the mids and run 2 of the 4 channels to the 6.5s in front. skip the rear and put these bullet tweeters up front with the mids and the new amplifier. Get a dual 2 ohm sub and use the remaining two channels and run each channel 2 ohms to each coil, call it good.

If you don't want to get a sub, you could simply use door pods and mount all the 6.5s up front (two in each door) along with the bullet tweets, using all four channels from the 4 channel amp for the 6.5s and the two channel amp to the tweeters. The sound will not be stellar, but it will definately be loud.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I have then in a jeep wrangler 4 door

Where are the speakers located in the Jeep wrangler? (1987 model/2000,2004,2006,1990? What year Jeep Wrangler 4 door? Speakers in the dash? Roll bar?

 

[Siikdude]

Where are the speakers located in the Jeep wrangler? (1987 model/2000,2004,2006,1990? What year Jeep Wrangler 4 door? Speakers in the dash? Roll bar?

I have a jeep wrangler 2010 4 door.. So 2 of my speakers are in the dash upfront. And the other 2 are in the bar in the middle of the car