Re: Speaker impedences

[raf40@oes.amdahl.com (Richard Funnell)]

>Well, if you wire them all to the same source, the impedence will be
>something like, 16 ohms. I wouldn't worry about blowing your amp with that
>MUCH restistance. If you wired them all in series, you might have to worry
>about haveing too LITTLE resistance - 1 ohm!

That must have been a slip of the pen.  Wiring resistance in series adds
the resistance of each series component.  Wiring in parallel reduces it.
So, two 4 ohm speakers in series have an impedance of 8 ohms.  Two 4 ohm
speakers in parallel have an impedance of 2 ohms.

>That would be fine, for a good
>compitition amp, but not for say, a Bose system, or a Delta head unit/system.
>
>If you were connecting them all to the head unit's amp, AND all of them
>together...why?
>
>Brooks

Richard Funnell,
San Jose, California
'83 urQ
'87 560 SL