I have been reading through some DIY projects and thought I would try one myself. I have a very small budget so I figured I would use some speakers I have lying around the house since it would be my first project. When looking through my speakers I ran into a problem. I have heard that you cannot mix 4ohm with 8ohm speakers. Is this correct?
I would be using a Bose 2.75" tweeter(8 ohm), a Bose 6.5"mid/woofer(8 ohm), and a 12"SVC Cerwin Vega subwoofer(4 ohm). Is this a waste of time? Thanks for your help.
I would be using a Bose 2.75" tweeter(8 ohm), a Bose 6.5"mid/woofer(8 ohm), and a 12"SVC Cerwin Vega subwoofer(4 ohm). Is this a waste of time? Thanks for your help.
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theres nothing actualy bad about it.. that i know of.
aslong as the efficiency ratings are similar of the various speakers
and also as long as ur amp is 4ohm rated
not many ohms-too much current
ul probably find that the vega may be more efficient than the tweeter and mid.
🙂
theres nothing actualy bad about it.. that i know of.
aslong as the efficiency ratings are similar of the various speakers
and also as long as ur amp is 4ohm rated
not many ohms-too much current
ul probably find that the vega may be more efficient than the tweeter and mid.
🙂
Um, lesse... if your amp is 8 ohms, then the two 8 ohm speakers in parallel, + the 4 ohm sub in series, will get a good impedance match.
In the real world, this probably won't work right, and something is telling me you'd need a capacitor across the sub (as opposed to a series inductor) to shunt higher frequencies away from it, and pour into the other speakers instead.
Tim
In the real world, this probably won't work right, and something is telling me you'd need a capacitor across the sub (as opposed to a series inductor) to shunt higher frequencies away from it, and pour into the other speakers instead.
Tim
Or you could bi-amp... one for the woofers, 1 for the mids and tweets..... 🙂 But, you said budget.. lol
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