Hi well im a total newb when it comes to coils and ohm and what not i dont understand it. What i would like to ask is if someone can tell me what amp/speaker setup to get with 500 bucks. I mean whats the best bang for my buck here?.

.... Or if you dont want to just let me off easy by telling me that can you explain to me how you determine what size amp you need and how many coils and ohms you need.. and also what type of wires and what not

... or if you know of a site that can explain all this to me please point me in the right direction

All depends if you want SPL or SQ. Do you want 1 sub, 2 subs? For an amp, i'd suggest a monoblock. If your monoblock is 2 ohm stable, you can do 4 8 ohm subs, or 2 4 ohm subs, or 1 dual 4 ohm sub, or 2 dual 2 ohm subs, or 2 dual 4 ohm subs plus a dual 2 ohm sub for 3 subs. If your monoblock is 1 ohm stable, you can do 4 4 ohm subs, or 2 dual 4 ohm subs, or 1 dual 2 ohm sub, or two dual 2 ohm subs plus a dual 4 ohm sub. There's so many possibilities. How much power do you want to run?

If you want a general purpose sub without worrying about ohms and voicecoils and hooking a lot of things up, I suggest a powered Bazooka tube. I have a BTA8200 and am very pleased with it. You could get two of them, plus the wiring kit, for under $500.

I would suggest that too if i didnt know better. the bazooka self powered subs use a 16 gauge cable for power, if you dont know what that is. its about the size of a pencil lead, in car audio, I would never use anything less than 8 gauge(full pen diameter). now I know its not a lot of power but still, thats definitly a fire hazzard waiting to happen. try out infinity, I think they have something very similar. bazooka may have changed it by now so check it out for yourself.

if you do want to go for a cheap setup though, try a single 10 in a sealed box. with 200RMS going into it, match the subs RMS to an amp of the same RMS rating. dont be fooled by max watts, and dont let price fool you, if its too good to be true, it really is.

My Bazooka is run with 8 gauge wire. I had to pull the original wires out of the harness to do that, but it was simple enough to do.