Question for the speaker/audio wizards out there.

Archived from groups: rec.audio.tech (More info?)

I suspect you will get better sound and safer operation if your go out
and buy the very cheapest 8ohm speakers you can find.

Kal

On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:48:57 -0300, "+G"
<positive_g@hotmail.removethis.com> wrote:

> have an older Altec Lansing (sp) 2.1, 100w 4ohm speaker setup for my PC.
>Powered sub.
>Now the darn thing keeps cutting out (no sound, no buzz). I think there's
>something wrong with the electronics that control the volume and on/off
>controls. It's all stored in the sub, I opened it, no bad capacitors.
>Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I figure one of the chips when
>it gets hot is causing this. Anyhow, I've given up on them for the PC, and
>I've replaced them with 5.1 setup.
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>Now here's the scenario. I'd like to recycle these speakers for use with
>an old Hitachi receiver (it'll go in the garage, radio/cassette/aux (CD/MP3
>player??)). It has left/right channels. I have an old radio shack speaker
>for it, that works, it's marked 8ohm (I'll probably turf that one). The
>amp says on the back that I can hook up 8 - 16 ohm speakers.
>There's also a separate L/R section (bizarre female plugs) for 11v/0.9a
>speakers, not sure what these are.
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>Anyhow, can I convert the 4ohm Altec speakers to 8ohm so that they work on
>this Hitachi amp?
>Googling the web brought up a few links saying to put in a 50w/8ohm resister
>on the + terminal on each speaker.
>Will that do it?
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>Also, can the subwoofer be reused at all (minus it's pre-amp)? How would
>one wire it up?
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