How To Wire Speakers and Subwoofers to Your Amplifier - 2, 3, 4 and 5 Channel - Bridged Mode

what's up everyone I know it's been a while but James doesn't let me on this channel unless I'm installing something so I figured out a way how to get back yeah I don't get too used to it he's been getting a lot of questions on how to hook up speakers to an amplifier it's a pretty basic subject but there appears to be some confusion on how to do it so we're going to take you through the simple steps of how to connect speakers to an amplifier so since this is a hypothetical amplifier installation we're going to assume we've already run our speaker wires to each one of the speaker locations now if you're just wanting to amplify an existing stock stereo you would run four speaker wires to the factory radio location or to the factory amplifier location make the connections to the speakers as those wires are already run or you can run new speaker cables [Music] for the sake of our demonstration we're going to make four speaker wires one of which we've already made typically we want to put terminals on them solder them so that they're actually pretty nice you can use wire furrows you can use Spade connectors there's a variety of different ways to do this [Music] foreign [Music] so we're gonna make them look like this they're soldered with heat shrink for better contact [Music] foreign [Music] we have four output terminals one of which is a one of which is B the a corresponds to the top row b corresponds to the bottom row now you can see on the RCA inputs we also have an A and A B white being left Channel red being right channel you'll connect your fronts to a and your rears to B and then that way you'll maintain fader and balance foreign we're going to connect four speakers we're going to assume that you've either run the speaker wires to the speaker location to the factory amp or to the factory head unit and make your connections up there so we'll just make our connections each one of the four terminals you have a left front left rear right front right rear so our first connection will be the left rear or in this case left B [Music] so our second connection will be right feed or right rear [Music] our next Connection in this four Channel setup will be the left front or left a [Music] so our very last connection will be the right front or right a foreign setup we're going to set up the amp as a three Channel system we're going to assume that you're going to use the bridged output to power a single sub and then you're going to use channels a left and right to power your front speakers on this amplifier only the B channels can be bridged that's noted actually on the amplifier with the statement on the bottom and then you can see that you'll use the positive of the Left Channel and then you'll use the negative of the right channel the two other terminals you're not going to use but we'll make our connections our left front speaker connections to the left and we'll make our right front speaker connections to the right so this will be our output to our single subwoofer now one thing you do need to take into consideration is most amplifiers at least Class A B can only operate at four ohms bridged make sure to check out our other video on how to figure out impedance of subwoofers but in this case this amp will drive a single subwoofer without much problem unless it's a competition level type stuff so the next connection we'll make in this three Channel system is our left front speaker foreign will be the right front speaker [Music] in this setup we're going to set the amp up as a 5 Channel and you're only looking to power one sub so what we'll do is we'll have our connections to our front rear and our subwoofer when setting up any amplifier as a multi-channel you need to double check the load in our case this amplifier is rated to do 2 ohm stereo and four ohms Bridge you can double check that by always looking at the instruction manual and they'll give you those ratings so what we're going to do is we're going to make our subwoofer connection first by going to the bridge channels and that's on B then we're going to make our parallel speaker connections to the left and to the right first our subwoofer connection foreign [Music] we have our output to our sub now we'll make our parallel speaker connections so what we're going to do is combine the positive terminal of the front speaker and the positive terminal the rear speaker and do exactly the same for the negatives [Music] and now we'll make our parallel connections for our right speakers foreign speaker outputs and our one subwoofer output [Music] in this setup we'll configure the amp for a setup what is known as dual bridge in this configuration you need to double check your amplifier instruction manual first to see if it supports dual bridged and to see what load it will support in bridged mode dual bridged is useful for running two subwoofers off of a four Channel or using it for front speakers to actually up the power output so we'll go ahead and make two connections one of which will be in our case we'll do a hypothetical dual subwoofer one will go to one sub the other will go to the other sub [Music] thank you [Music] in our final configuration we'll say that hypothetically this is a two-channel lamp so what we're going to do is set up four speakers on a two channel that takes the exact same configuration as we did in the five channel just paralleling the two outputs so disregard the two bottom sets of outputs and we'll pretend that this is only a two channel and parallel to speakers [Music] so now that we've had two channels connected we'll connect the right two now we have our four Channel outputs and we've powered our front and rear speakers all four of them from a two channel [Music] so hopefully this helps clear some things up so we've run over two channel four channel three Channel and five channel and dual bridge I want to thank James for allowing me to get in on another video hopefully this helped clear some things up 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Id: vxWSN60i5ew

Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Sun May 28 2017