DVC subwoofers

[punkrokr1701]

How would wiring a SVC subwoofer in any way effect it's performance? I am refering to the Mach 5 10" sub which is DVC with 4ohm+4ohm voice coils yet the amp I am planning the use with it puts out 300 watts rms @ 4 ohm and only 170 @8 ohm is there any way to get around that by just using one of the voice coils?

[95Honda]

You can drive one coil. Power handling (thermal) will suffer, it will NOT be cut in half though as some may try and tell you. You will have a change in the drivers electrical Q also, but you can use/exploit this by either shorting or putting a variable resistance on the un-driven coil. You could have a driver with a variable Q.

Or just run the coils in series and see how you like it....

[paulspencer]

I wouldn't do that. You give up half of the BL that way. The only situation I can think of where that would be a good idea is perhaps with dipole use where the higher Qts would be desirable, and where little power handling is required.

Instead, I suggest either accept the limited power, or use a different amp, such as a 2 channel power amp that can be bridged into an 8 ohm load. The behringer A500 will put out 500w bridged mono into 8 ohms, more than you need.