is 1000w amp an ideal choice for a 800w Subwoofer & bridging

[yasafatia]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to the audio game, have owned some powered boxes over the past couple of years.

I'm quite sure this will work but I wanted to ask whether it's ideal matching these two.

The subwoofer I'm wanting to buy is an FS Audio 21" 800w Nominal / 1600w Program @ 4ohm.

The only affordable amp I can find which runs 4ohm is the Behringer Nuke-1000 which gives 1000w @ 4ohms bridged.

I don't want a massive compromise, I want it to sound great, is this a reasonable set-up?

My other question is: Can I run both 'Left' and 'Right' into the amp that is running bridged, therefore making my single subwoofer play the bass for both channels?

 

[americanaudiophile]

When you bridge an amp it can only accept a mono input.
In some cases using a 2 female RCA to 1 male RCA will combine left and right. The correct way is to like this
http/www.epanorama.net/circuits/linesum.html
http/www.rane.com/note109.html
If you use a dual voice coil woofer with a stereo amp that combines left and right in the speaker.

 

[jay32267]

I see two issues...

The first thing is....that amp is not a subwoofer amp. It is designed to pass high frequencies if you want it to.....so I don't really see it as ideal if you want to just use it for a subwoofer.

Although it does have a low pass filter, which would not send the higher frequencies to the subwooofer....so that's a plus....but you can't adjust the crossover from what I see....so that's a minus.

As far as left and right....the short answer is "no".....unless.....you mix the left and right together before you send it to the amp with a mixer.

 

[americanaudiophile]

When you bridge an amp it can only accept a mono input.
In some cases using a 2 female RCA to 1 male RCA will combine left and right. The correct way is to like this
http/www.epanorama.net/circuits/linesum.html
http/www.rane.com/note109.html
If you use a dual voice coil woofer with a stereo amp that combines left and right in the speaker.