i have a sony xplod 700watt amp that goes to two 10in subs and i was wondering if i could also run the amp to the speakers in the sound bar for some more power? i also have a capacitor if that matters any

Why not? I'm pretty sure you don't use all 700 anyway.
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Not unless it is a 4 ch amp. doubleing up or "bridging" causes you to lower the impedence "ohms" where as you are taking a 4 ohm amp and now running it at 2 ohms. The distortion tends to double but then again so does the power.

You'd be sending the same amount of wattage to the sound bar as you would the subs. Not to mention if you have it set up correctly you have a low pass filter on the subs, vrs full range meaning all you are getting are bass notes out of them....not all the vocals and such wich subs arent usually designed to reproduce. If you bridged each channel and ran the speakers in paralell with a low pass filter you would only be getting the lows out of the sound par and none of that high frequencies.

i believe the subs play the music too, it sounds like they do. how do i know if its a 4 ch amp? how do i know if it has a low pass filter on the subs? is that built into the amp or is that in another box itself, all that is there is a sony xplod amp and a sony xplod capacitor, how do i get the sound bar to produce the low and high frequencies?

correction its a 760 watt amp and it says 2/1 channel

When purchasing (getting) the amp it should have come with paper work that covered the product and some tech specs that would list the units capabilities.

Just taking a wild guess, but typically when amps are designes there are preconfigued for certain critera. Not saying that this is a steadfast rule of cours, jmho. With the Sony unit it is a 2 ch. unit designed for sub perforamance from the sounds of it. This is not to say that U R unable to solder together a board which would allow U to operate it as a multi ch. amp. If you would like to run it as multi ch. I would recommend that you start with at least a 4 ch. amp with lo and hi band pass filter capabilities.

Just some thoughts.

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how would i go about hooking that up, do i just run a speaker wire from the back of the amp to the speakers in the sound bar?