laserred96gt

Ok so i just got my 1999 WS6 and the two subs in the sail panels were blown so i replaced them with two kicker 6.5" shallow mount subs. And at first i connected just the long wires from the factory subs as i read to do but they didn't sound all that great, then i connected all for wires (the two reds and the two blacks) and they sounded much better this is confusing to me because the kicker subs are not dual voice coil subs. So my question is will it hurt them to keep all four wires hooked up to each them?

Thanks
Chris

LT1-DAN

You only have to hook up 2 wires, the + and the -

But you have to make sure you hook up the - wire to the - on the speaker, and the + wire to the + side on the speaker. If you hook them up reverse polarity it won't sound good.

laserred96gt

Thanks.

I have the negatives and the positives hooked up to the right places but i just have two negatives to the negative hook up and two positives to the positive hook ups is this bad? Cause it sounds good.

LT1-DAN

Did you run extra wires?? How do you have 2 + and 2 - wires??

laserred96gt

No i didn't run extra wires i just used the factory harness from the old speakers which had 4 wire hooking up to each of them two - and two + so i just hooked both + to the positive hookup and two negative to the negative hook up on each sub.

LT1-DAN

I gotcha now. Yep that's how you do it, does it sound good??

laserred96gt

yeah they sound great! They really hit hard for how tiny they are. So its cool that even though my new subs are not dual voice coil subs like the stock ones to hook all 4 of them up?

Thanks again

LT1-DAN

Are you sure the stock ones are dual coils??

laserred96gt

yeah im very very sure. The ones on the Camaro wern't but the T/A's are.

LT1-DAN

hmmm...are your speakers hooked up to your head unit or do you have a external amp??

laserred96gt

its the monsoon external amp

LT1-DAN

Ahhhh,....you have the Monsoon setup!!!!! No you will need to get dual coil speakers. Sorry, I thought you had the basic system.

laserred96gt

I like the way these sound so should i just unhook 2 of the wires from each?

LT1-DAN

You could do that, but it might not play very loud.

laserred96gt

lol exactly why i hooked them both up.

1978transam

Do you think that they sound better than the eu-700 or the bazooka duel voice coil speakers? Because I can get a pair of the kickers for 100 but I was worryed that they would not sound as good as a duel voice coil speaker.

Hatchetman337

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The only problem is that I think you risk frying your amp with that configuration. It'll probably sound really good till you have problems. You may not have any problems, though. Only time will tell.