So I have made a couple of one way speakers and am trying to build my first 2-way speaker system which is going to be a center channel. The two mid/full range drivers are 8 ohms and the tweeter is 6 ohms. Now I need >4 ohms and preferably >8 ohms. I know if I hook up the mids in parallel and then hook the tweeter in series I should get 10 ohms which will work with my receiver. My issue is how will this setup will affect the crossover which I am going to be putting in, see attached for my spiffy schematic. Can I make this work reasonably or should I have gotten some 4 ohm mid drivers and just wired everything in series. I really want the extra sensitivity that the parallel mids will give so that they will better match the sensitivity of the tweeter. The crossover is a 2nd order butters worth crossover with a cutoff at 2500 Hz.
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Make classic parallel crossover, with two mid/full range drivers serially connected between themself (making 16-ohm impedance). No problem for the receiver in spite of nominal 6-ohm tweeter impedance.
Thanks for the responses all. Pretty obvious if I'd thought about it for more than 2 min. I think I'll do the classic parallel crossover with the mid drivers in series. I have an older entry level surround sound amp that works from 6 - 16 ohms, I think at least. Again thanks for the help this is my first two way speakers.
-JAG
-JAG