Well i want a half decent system, i atleast want 2 front, 2 rear and 1 sub etc you know but a system that will actually sound alright and wont distort.
and if someone could explain or show me a link to what all this 'audio' talk is, ohm, bridge etc etc
cheers
The term "ohm" is a unit used to measure resistance levels through out an electrical system.
Both speakers, and amplifiers, have their own impedance levels.When you select audio components, it is important that you match the impedance levels correctly, such as when matching speakers, and subwoofers, to amplifiers.
The lower the impedance level, the less resistance.With less resistance, amplifiers are able to generate higher amounts of power.Full range speakers, such as coaxials, component splits, ect, are all that i know of, 4 ohm.Subwoofer's, can vary.This is due to many subwoofers having more than one voice coil.If you see it abreviated such as "SVC"or "DVC" this mean the the subwoofer is a single, or dual voice coil.The impedance levels of the coil typically vary from 2 ohm, to 4 ohm.Manafactuers make subwoofers available at different impedance levels to allow it to be wired in a configuration so that it be suitable an amplifiers own impedance levels.There is more to it, such how you can wire a component/s to vary these levels, and so forth, but i won't go into it as it can be hard to explain it to some one, especially in text.
Bridging, is when the channels of an amplifier are wired together, to form a single channel.For e.g, you can wire 2 channels together to form 1 channel.Or 4 channels combined to form 2 channels, and so forth.A common use for this, is bridging 2 channels together, to power a subwoofer.Each channel represents a single output, so if you have 2 channels, you can drive 2 speakers, it is possible to drive more than one speaker from a single channel, however it isn't a very common practice in entry level setups.Another common practice is to "bridge" the channels of a 4 channel amplifier, into 2 channels, to provide more power to a set of speakers, such as the front speakers.
It can be very difficult to explain things like this using text in a forum ect, without ranting on too much, but hopefully it helped somewhat.If there is anything you didn't understand out of that, or require more info on, let me know and either myself or another member can help you out..
