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Topic: wireing 3ohm speakers

Posted By: highamp
Subject: wireing 3ohm speakers
Date Posted: January 08, 2008 at 2:50 AM

right now i have per door is 2 soundstream sst-6.5 they are 3 ohm and a memphis 4 ohm tweeter wired in with them.
if i add another what is my options for wireing, can i do it like people do subs and just come out to a 3 ohm load, what options do you see with that.
3ohm
3ohm
4ohm

and
3
3
3
4

how is my best option to wire either or at a ohm load of that will be a little above 2 ohm



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Posted By: sedate
Date Posted: January 08, 2008 at 7:53 AM

highamp wrote:

right now i have per door is 2 soundstream sst-6.5 they are 3 ohm and a memphis 4 ohm tweeter wired in with them

Uhh.  Like wired in parallel?  From the same output?  If so, this doesn't work.  The SST is a coaxial right?  You don't need that memphis tweeter, I promise.  Just wire the speaker to your output normally.  There is NOT a way to wire these componets together like this.

You need some sort of frequency seperation or you will kill your memphis tweeter and your soundstream speaker will sound terrible anyway.

The 3-ohm coaxials were an attempt by Soundstream to increase the power output of aftermarket head units - I've heard good things about them.



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