Alpha z speaker wire question

[bspot]

I just picked up the new Z3 and would like to add an amp to the tower speakers. I have the syn 2 running both the rev 10 and rev 8 speakers and will be adding another syn 2. I looked at the speaker wiring lasnight. There is only one set of wires coming to the syn 2 . Did tige splice them together up in the tower somewhere? If I am going to have to run another set, how hard is this?

[chpthril]

Yes, the green and purple tower wires are splice before heading to the amp as a single left and right pair.

If you fold the tower down, you will see then spliced in the tower's foot between the split joint and deck. Its a tight squeeze, but you should be able to fit two more pairs through the hole in the deck.

[Bruizza]

Just my opinion but get a syn 4 instead of another syn 2. Power the 10s off the syn 4 and the 8s off the syn 2. Honestly from my experience with both those tower speakers they both really come to life with a syn 4.

[bspot]

Thanks for the help, I got a really good deal on a syn 2. I will get a syn 4 in the future to power the rev 10's and keep the 2 for a sub possibly.

[houstonshark]

You can run more wires through the tower base without too much trouble if you run them from the top down. Use a small fiberglass rod, coat hanger or tape on a small chain thin chain to the end of the wire, push the wire through the hole and reach in underneath with a magnet. You'll be able to grab the chain with the magnet and pull it to you, then pull the wire with the chain.

I used this:

http://www.lsdinc.com/content/product_details/62


Whatever you do, make sure you double check polarity and left and right. My boat came with 1pr of Rev10's and when we added an additional pair, the left and right for the 2nd pair from the factory were swapped and one of them was wired out of phase.