Question on Mono Amp on High Speakers..

[Bumpin Expo]

Quick question...

If you hook a mono amp upto regular speakers will anything come out of the speakers?

Reason I ask...I got a "blown" MTX mono amp from a friend. Powers on fine and I hooked it up to a regular 6 1/2 speaker and no sound, so i figured this amp shitted out. Then tonite i was thinking....maybe its cuz i hooked up a mono amp to a high speaker? Any thoughts?

[Miles]

well, my first guess as to why there's no sound would be that it's blown... just a hunch though.

[Mmmm Rice]

even though its a mono amp it will still play sound through any speaker(sub's, or mids and hi's) it just wont play anything above the crossover seting. Some mono amp's have a passive crosover that you can turn off and then the amp will put uot what ever you put in to it.

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Originally posted by saggleman
well, my first guess as to why there's no sound would be that it's blown... just a hunch though.

If u look at my post again, i put blown in " to indicate that Im not sure if its blown are not. Hes not to car audio smart. I mean it powered on fine everything looked good. I jus thought it would b some shit if it really worked and he was jus dumb. I woulda had free amp

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Originally posted by Mmmm Rice
even though its a mono amp it will still play sound through any speaker(sub's, or mids and hi's) it just wont play anything above the crossover seting. Some mono amp's have a passive crosover that you can turn off and then the amp will put uot what ever you put in to it.

Thanks man, damn that sucks. I had my hopes up too hopeing the guy was a dumbass. lol o well selling on ebay as blown....

[93ex]

Originally posted by Mmmm Rice
even though its a mono amp it will still play sound through any speaker(sub's, or mids and hi's) it just wont play anything above the crossover seting. Some mono amp's have a passive crosover that you can turn off and then the amp will put uot what ever you put in to it.

this man is correct. An amp will do its job on any speaker, assuming its not fubared.

[TBSpyder]

Mono amps generally are not as "clean" as a/b amps. This makes basically no difference at lower frequencies...which is why they are so popular for subwoofer usage. It will power any speakers, however.