what is it better to get for a car. a 2ohm subwoofer or a 4ohm? ?

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i was looking at the kicker solobaric l7 15 inch. with a Kicker ZX1000.1 ZX Amp Car Audio 1000 Watt Mono Amplifier. just wondering if i should get a 2 ohm sub or 4?
 
kicker amps are stable down to 2ohms, if you wire a dual 2ohm sub i'll either be in 1ohm or 4ohm load. 1ohm load will be unstable so 4ohm load u wont make the most of the amp. dual 4ohm, u can wire it as 2ohm load and make the most use of the amp or 8ohm load.

if u want a dual 2ohm at 1ohm load u might want to look for a different amp. I went with a dual 4ohm and going to wire it in parallel for a 2ohm load.
 
It depends on whether you are using 1 sub or 2. The ZX1000.1 is 2 ohm stable, so a dual 4 ohm model can be wired to produce either a 2 ohm load or 8 ohm load on a monoblock amp like the ZX1000.1, if going with 2 subs than you need the dual 2 ohm models so you can wire them to run 2 ohms together from the one output by wiring the subs to make a 4 ohm load at the subs and running the speaker connections together to make a 2 ohm load at the amp. To make a single 4 ohm sub into a 2 ohm sub you wire the positive and negative from the speaker box to subs then wire the positive and negatives to the second set of voice coils so + to + to + and - to - to -.
 
it depends on how much you want to get, but if you get only one then go with 2 ohms to get the most watts out of your amp. if you want to look at some wiring diagrams just google "sub woofer wiring diagrams". hope that helps
 
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