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Alright, I originally bought a 4-channel 35RMS/channel amp to drive my infinity components up front and the pioneer 3-ways in the back. The infinity's I decided were being underpowered so I bridged the infinity's and wired the pioneers up to the stock HU speaker input again instead of using the amp in the rear. I was talking to a friend and he said I really should get another amp if I want to run the 70watts to each infinity so I was thinking about getting an Alpine 2-channel 50RMS/channel amp to drive the rear speakers and I figured in the future I could play around with it if I wanted a sub. Is this a good idea? or should I be able to leave my system with the rear speakers going off the regular stock HU power and the components off the amp and still make it sound good? I think I'm just having trouble getting everything balanced for a good stage. Thanks!

 
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sell that one and get a bigger 4 channel

 
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The rear speakers I currently have are only supposed to take 40 watts per channel, the infinity's need 75 watts per channel. If I get a bigger four channel I'll be way over powering the rear speakers. I just wanna know if I even need to amp those rear speakers or if I should just leave it.

 
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just stick wid the rears runnin off the HU power..... the rear is just filler anyway..... when i get components i'm gonna do the same thing... bridge em to run the fronts.... run the rear off HU.....

 
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The only problem I seem to have run into by doing that is I cut out some bass. The fronts are overpowering the rear right now and so I'm thinking I either need to get a little more bass out of the rear or try adding a sub. Or maybe I should buy another amp and power a subwoofer off of it. What are the general opinions of the infinity basslinks? I know they aren't like JL subs, but are they decent? I don't want REALLY powerful subs so thats why I was wondering about those.

 
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I'd get a good quality 4-channel amp, you can always adjust your output levels and if it is a decent amp, you can turn the rears down and the fronts up for optimal sound. If you still have stock rear speakers, I'd replace them with better quality, tho.

 
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They aren't stock speakers in the rear. Pioneer 3-ways that handle 40watts RMS, the fronts take a lot more than that though. If I get a good quality amp I will destroy those rear speakers. I dunno, I'm considering an infinity basslink because they are real small and don't take up a lot of room, and then just take out the rear speakers maybe? Something to consider.

 
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i'd sell the rears, put your stock rears back in, run them on deck power, and get a sub or two

 
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I would get an amp and subs next. Keep everything else as is.

 
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Even though your pioneer's are 40W RMS they still can handle the 75W that an amp would provide the 6 x 9's. I'm pretty sure that they probaly handle about 150W max.