SVC vs. DVC question
02-14-2012, 12:56 PM
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SVC vs. DVC question Car is a 2000 Firebird. I'm looking to replace the sail panel subs with aftermarket 6.5" component subs. I know these are 4ohm DVC speakers. Can I use a 4ohm SVC speaker, and if so how do I wire them up? I'm looking at the Kicker Comp VT subs. Thanks.
02-14-2012, 02:14 PM
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I have SVC speakers in the sail panels, and I just wired up 2 of the wires to the new speaker instead of all 4. Not sure if that's the correct way to do that though, but at least it works! lol
02-15-2012, 07:42 AM
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There is no way to properly wire all four wires in a Firebird Monsoon system to an SVC sub. As Krazedkuniva said, you can just use one pair of wires and leave the others unconnected, giving up half the available power.
There are a number of reasons that DVC speakers are slightly better from an audiophile's point of view but they are mostly insignificant in a car (not the best audio environment). They are quite useful from an installer's point of view because they provide flexibility for impedance matching and they can be wired with smaller wire. A 4-ohm DVC sub can be wired for 2 or 8 ohms using both coils or 4 ohms using one coil. Using both coils splits the current requirement between two pairs instead of one allowing the use of smaller, more flexible wires (this applies only to setups like the Monsoon where the voice coils are powered by separate channels of the amp).
From an end user's perspective, there is no significant difference in sound between SVC and DVC subs of equivalent specs.
There are a number of reasons that DVC speakers are slightly better from an audiophile's point of view but they are mostly insignificant in a car (not the best audio environment). They are quite useful from an installer's point of view because they provide flexibility for impedance matching and they can be wired with smaller wire. A 4-ohm DVC sub can be wired for 2 or 8 ohms using both coils or 4 ohms using one coil. Using both coils splits the current requirement between two pairs instead of one allowing the use of smaller, more flexible wires (this applies only to setups like the Monsoon where the voice coils are powered by separate channels of the amp).
From an end user's perspective, there is no significant difference in sound between SVC and DVC subs of equivalent specs.
