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kylewest1320

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:52 PM / IP Logged

Is there a way to reduce each speaker's Ohm from a set of componet's from 4 Ohm's to 2 Ohm's, but not by running them in parrallel? Or is there a way to run each set in parrallel but keep the Ohm's at 4?

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:58 PM / IP Logged

Are you not using the crossover unit that came with the speakers? If you used the crossover, it would have each set @ 4 ohms (typically). What exactly are you working with and what are you trying to accomplish?

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 8:59 PM / IP Logged

You can use a dummy load to do it but there is no advantage to it. You might have the amp putting out more power at two ohms but the dummy load is gonna take half of it anyways and the distortion is gonna go up so its not a good Idea.

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:02 PM / IP Logged

Well I have a Zapco 360.4 amp which puts out 50x4 @ 4 ohm's rms or It will put out 90x4 @ 2 ohm's. I have 2 sets of Diamond Audio Hex s600a componets that I would like to run at least 90w to each speaker.

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:11 PM / IP Logged

You would want to run them in parallel. Ravendarat is right, if you used a linear transformer, it would use up half your power, putting yourself right back where you were at 45 watts of total power per channel actually hitting your speakers.

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 9:23 PM / IP Logged

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Posted: July 21, 2006 at 10:10 PM / IP Logged

kylewest1320 wrote:

No, and no.

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Posted: July 22, 2006 at 2:21 PM / IP Logged

Yeah, these are great speakers and you wouldnt want to limit their quality like this. just run them stereo

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