Speaker and Amp Question- Should I buy?

[zagfreak]

Hello- I was initially focusing on 2 Rock Fosgate M282 ( 8") Tower Speaks, and 4 M282 (8") speaks for inside the boat using a RF T600 Car Amp (located in area that is not exposed to water). I wasn't going to put a sub because I would need another amp (the RF guy told me I could run all 6 speakers mentioned above on the T600 amp?-not sure how). Well, my friend just changed his system and has some stuff for sale- 10" Kicker Marine Woofer, Kicker 550.3 amp w/ remote bass level dial, Kicker 350.4 amp and Samson 720's with Focal Speakers. All are about 4-5 years old but have been out of his boat for 2-3 years..

Question- depending on the price, would I be able to pair the 10" sub with one of the Kicker amps and do it justice? Somehow, I just don't like the look of the 720's and am really looking forward to the RF Towers..

Thanks for your time!

 

[deejaycee_2000]

Re: Speaker and Amp Question- Should I buy?

Yes definitely, as long as you keep the subs on one amp ... I just redone my whole sound system and wanted to run the whole rig off one amp but the sub don't work with focals on the same amp, so now I have one for my 2 x 12" subs and 8 tower speakers pushing of the other amp and the other in boat speakers running from the head unit .... the sound is perfect

 

[Liquid_force]

Re: Speaker and Amp Question- Should I buy?

Six 4 ohm speakers on a standard 4 ch amp wouldn't be a problem.
You'd just run your cabin speakers on 2 channels (lefts on a channel, rights on a channel) which would get you a 2 ohm stereo load and 150x2 from that amp -- 75w per speaker. Although RF's Power amps are known to be significantly under-rated so realistically you'd probably have 100w+ on tap for those 4.
The tower speakers would each have their own channel so 100x2 on paper.
You'd have the interior speakers set up as fronts and the tower as rears (or vice versa) so you could fade from tower to interior, but not front interiors to rear interiors.
It would be good and loud IMO.

As for the hand-me-down gear...
I'm pretty sure kicker's marine sub (KM10) is just a marinized Comp, so it would only be 150w rms, and would probably be 4 ohms.
The sub channel of the 550.3 is 210w at 4 ohms -- more than enough to power the sub (FWIW - it's 420w rms at 2 ohms so it would be adequate to power a PAIR of km10's well).
That would leave you two 70w channels to drive another pair of full range speakers (interior fronts maybe?) -- or 4 speakers as I explained above with the 4 ch - 6 spkr scenario.
The 4 ch amp would give you another 60x4 to power 4 (+) more speakers.

So I guess what you're asking is would the kicker amps work well with the 10" sub and 6 T282's (or some combo of focal/T282)? Yes.