Ohm Car
Installing 4 or 8 ohm car speakers?
I want to install a vintage Car Stereo in my 1974 Ford LTD. The thing is, the stereo I wanna install has printed on the back "only for use with 8 ohm speakers", and it has 2 speaker output. If, instead of installing 2 8ohm speakers, could I just install 4 4ohm speakers?
Because I dont wanna screw up the stereo by hooking up speakers with too low impedence, but with the 4 speakers, would it evenly distribute the power output to the 4 4ohm speakers, as it would if I just had 2 8ohm speakers?
You could wire 4 - 4 ohm speakers in series to raise the impedance back to a safe 8 ohm level as your vintage car stereo requires.
It will evenly distribute the power, but remember because you've doubled the number of speakers, it will take the rated power and half it.
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