Comments on: How do I wire my loudspeakers down to 4 ohms!? http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms Subwoofer drivers Tue, 22 May 2012 16:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Speakerman http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms/comment-page-1#comment-11169 Speakerman Wed, 19 May 2010 19:41:59 +0000 http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms#comment-11169 just hook up with regular wire to the positive and negative and you're all set. it's good that your amp will do 4 ohms so that way even if you're not getting the 4 ohms you desire it's still ok for the amp if they're working on 8 or 6 ohms. hope that helps dude.<br><b>References : </b><br> just hook up with regular wire to the positive and negative and you’re all set. it’s good that your amp will do 4 ohms so that way even if you’re not getting the 4 ohms you desire it’s still ok for the amp if they’re working on 8 or 6 ohms. hope that helps dude.
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]]> By: joseph http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms/comment-page-1#comment-11168 joseph Wed, 19 May 2010 19:26:59 +0000 http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms#comment-11168 Simply place them in parallel, plus to plus and minus to minus. This will present a load of (about) 4 ohms to your Amplifier. I don't think you really need to be concerned with harmonics and resonance. Most speakers are rated at 8 ohms. Don't go less than 4 ohms, or you run the risk of destroying your Amplifier.<br><b>References : </b><br>> 36 yrs. Electronic Experience. Simply place them in parallel, plus to plus and minus to minus.
This will present a load of (about) 4 ohms to your Amplifier. I don’t
think you really need to be concerned with harmonics and resonance.
Most speakers are rated at 8 ohms. Don’t go less than 4 ohms, or you
run the risk of destroying your Amplifier.
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> 36 yrs. Electronic Experience.

]]> By: Maniac http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms/comment-page-1#comment-11167 Maniac Wed, 19 May 2010 19:18:59 +0000 http://www.acoupower.com/loudspeakers/how-do-i-wire-my-loudspeakers-down-to-4-ohms#comment-11167 This is all a little confusing. Your speakers are "8-4 ohms"? Normally they would be rated either 8 ohms or 4 ohms not "8 - 4". In reality the impedance varies with frequency. There will be peaks of capacitive reactance near resonance and inductive reactance starting somewhere above resonance. The actual impedance of an 8 ohm rated speaker will vary typically from about 5.5 ohms (it's DC resistance) and 20 ~ 40 ohms. Put this and other speakers into a speaker system with a passive crossover and the total system impedance can vary more based on the crossover design. For simplicity's sake we'll just assume an 8 ohm speaker is 8 ohms. If you have two of them and put them in parallel the net result is 4 ohms. If you put them in series the net result is 16 ohms.<br><b>References : </b><br> This is all a little confusing. Your speakers are "8-4 ohms"? Normally they would be rated either 8 ohms or 4 ohms not "8 - 4". In reality the impedance varies with frequency. There will be peaks of capacitive reactance near resonance and inductive reactance starting somewhere above resonance. The actual impedance of an 8 ohm rated speaker will vary typically from about 5.5 ohms (it’s DC resistance) and 20 ~ 40 ohms. Put this and other speakers into a speaker system with a passive crossover and the total system impedance can vary more based on the crossover design.

For simplicity’s sake we’ll just assume an 8 ohm speaker is 8 ohms. If you have two of them and put them in parallel the net result is 4 ohms. If you put them in series the net result is 16 ohms.
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