Audio Systems: speaker wireing, dual voice coil, ohm


Question
o.k i have a matts 3000 watt 1 ohm amp and i have 3 matts 4 ohm dual voice coil speakers .i need to get as close to 1 ohm as possible .can you give me any advise on how to wire these speakers to get as close to 1 ohm as possible

Answer
well unfortuatly is just a simple matter of math.  you have 3 subs that have 2 coils each so you have 6 coils, each one is 4 ohms.  all coils in parallel would be .67 ohms which would be a little hard on the amp, you could try it but it will most likely overheat.
if you put each subs 2 coils in series and then the 3 of those sets in parallel you will get a 2.67 ohm load.

The only way to get 1 ohm is to use 2 subs only.  put all coils in parallel, that's a 1 ohm load.

If I were you I'd buy 1 more of the exact same sub so you have 4 of them. then you can run the amp at 2 ohms. this would give each sub about 400W each.  The amount of sound you'd get from the extra surface of the 4 subs would be comparable to just beating on the amp harder with 2 subs.  and the amp would run cooler and the sound would be cleaner.  this would also give you the option of getting another 1 of these same amps down the road and run each pair of subs on its own amp which would give you the 1 ohm load and run all the equip to its max. (of course you can do this now too if you like, just buy 1 more sub and 1 more amp).
IF YOU DO THIS JUST MAKE SURE YOU GET THE SAME EXACT STUFF YOU ALREADY HAVE.  I cant tell you how many people try to mix and match different models and ohms and they write to me asking why it sounds like S#!T.
so good luck, let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.