Picking an Amplifier

One of the most asked questions on the MP3Car.com forums comes when a user needs to determine what amp to go with to power their speakers.

Picking out an amplifier can be a bit intimidating considering that there are many parameters that need to be considered.

To keep things simple, we'll just start off with your full range speakers. We'll talk about sub-woofers in a bit.

Let's say you have 4 speakers and would like to power all of them on an amplifier. The safest and easiest way of doing this is to find a 4 channel amplifier. This means a channel for each speaker.

If you have a set of seperates (where the midrange driver and the tweeter are mounted seperately) you don't necessarially need to add in more channels of amplification. That's where the crossover network that comes with seperates can be used.

Wiring up subwoofers can get a little trickey, and for the purposes of this article, we're trying to keep things simple. After reading this entire article, if you still have questions on how to wire up your subs or which amp to go with for your subs, you can ask it here: [1]