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Need help choosing an AMP for car speakers.

meowking

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Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, but I'll ask anyway
I have 4 car speakers installed in my ceiling. They are rated "Peak power 220W" at 4 Ohms. I'd like to find a cheap way to power it.
I've been looking at cheap amps and the fosi v3 seems to be good for its price. It doesn't have bluetooth which isn't a problem for me but it might be if someone comes over and decides to play music. Are there any amps like the fosi v3 that have bluetooth? I saw that the fosi BT30A has an outdated design. Is that a big issue for fosi amps?

Also, because I'll have 4 speakers and only a single stereo amp I'll be connecting two speakers into a single slot on the amp.

I also saw a lot of people recommending a cheap old used AVR, but I would rather not go that route because I'd like something small (the AVR might not fit into where I want).
I'm not really an audio person and just need some amp to use these speakers. My use cases will mostly likely be listening to mostly voice recordings and rarely music.
 
There's whole branch of V driven many speakers amp's but you don't want such. I don't advise serial binding speakers even if amplifier can push it.
There are good performing "Pro" power amplifier if you need significantly more power output but I doubt that. Of course those come in rack mont form. They aren't exactly cheap either (especially how output becomes more significant). There's plethora of generic small class D amplifiers with DAC and BT so pick what suits you. What it comes to separate power outputs for more than 2 chenels your choices possibilities will go down significantly but still there are some. Anyway going with pair of cheap Class D and separate BT DAC to feed them both would probably be a better choice (even it's a bit cable management nightmare).
Edit: what's stopping you to bilt amp modules along with power supplies also in ceiling?
It's more work to get it done but it solves space/visual issues. In such case you can also expand your criteria to and satisfactory stage and power supply sources to lighting and similar SWPS.
 
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Hey, thanks for the quick response.
Everything is already built and installed and the wires are already routed. There's a special cabinet designed for the amp.
I guess my question is will one class D be enough? I can always get a second one later on, right?
 
Hey, thanks for the quick response.
Everything is already built and installed and the wires are already routed. There's a special cabinet designed for the amp.
I guess my question is will one class D be enough? I can always get a second one later on, right?
You can and it's probably better to count on two of them from the beginning. You can go and with those that allow bridged single channel output (Fosi had couple as much as I remember). Parallel tying 4 Ohms declared speakers (less than that and usually even under 2 ohms in hard to drive for them lows) is hard to do task for any amplifier. What's the declared efficiency (dB/W) for them if you know and how loud are you intending to use it?
PS try to find and use good quality external power supplies for such amp's locally (with both required voltage and A they give) if you can even it cost you a little more.
 
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