How many subs off one amp?

Drakkon

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Ohkay the deal is local store is having a run on infinity perfect 10.1 subs (10" 350RMS @ 4ohm 1400 MAX)
How many of these could I run off a JBL 1200.1 (RMS Power: 600W x 1 @ 4 ohms
Bridged RMS Power: 1200W x 1 @ 2 ohms ) and how many off a JBL 600.1(RMS Power: 300W x 1 @ 4 ohms
Bridged RMS Power: 600W x 1 @ 2 ohms)?
I was thinking 4 possibly off the 1200.1 and 2 off the 600.1 but i dont want to underpower too much...I've done the division but just wondered if their were any audio pros that knew the preformance irl...
And yes i know JBL isn't the best but they are within my budget and work well enough and preserve the pretty decent quality of the infinitys :p
 

snik

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Amount of subs depends on how you decide to wire them. Series/Parallel. If you're going with quality subs like the perfects ditch jbl.
 

Drakkon

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would most likely go parallel...and like i said JBL is the best within my price range (under $250 to spend on the amp(s) and i can get either one for under that)
 

WarCon

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Those are dual 4ohm voice coils, take that into account when your planning quantity. So the speaker can either be an 8ohm or a 2ohm by itself. They don't need very much space for a sealed box (like .6 cu. ft) and only 1 cu. ft for a ported one. If you wanna run your amp at 2 ohm load then you need 4 speakers. So the 600.1 amp would be driving two speakers at 1 ohm or 4 ohm's. Is it 1 ohm stable?

How good a deal are your getting?

I really like Hifonics amps (at least the older ones - I heard they got bought out so who knows now).

Edit: Disregard above............was thinking of the 10.1d's (hence d for dual voice coil).

Single 4 ohm voice coils would mean you would be running a 4 ohm or 1 ohm load on the 1200.1 with 4 speakers and a 2 ohm load on the 600.1 with 2 speakers.
 

Shockwave

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JBL is an excellent amp. Absolutely nothing wrong with them.
How many you can run dpeends on how you wire them. You can run series, parallel or series / parallel to get alot of different layouts. See here
 
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I think it'd be a waste running 10.1's on a 1200.1 - you could push 2 12.1's on it and make it sound better WAY better. 4 is just overkill and depending on your trunk dynamics and such, crap. I have a 600.1 right now (not hooked up) but originally was going to push 2 10.1's off of it.