Recent content by toxicmegacolon

Yeah, Yeah. Someone told me that you can't use just DC to measure true speaker impedance since it's a dynamic system. This is partially true, but yes I realize now that I was misinformed and that you can get a good idea with a multimeter.

Yeah, Yeah. Someone told me that you can't use just DC to measure true speaker impedance since it's a dynamic system. This is partially true, but yes I realize now that I was misinformed and that you can get a good idea with a multimeter.

Well I finally got time to run my power wire and take my dash apart and it turns out that you're mostly right. It was a little better in terms of sound quality at high volume with the amp running the stock speakers, but not enough that I'm going to leave it that way. In my vehicles of yore it...

Yeah you're right. I was operating under misinformation that someone had given me that made sense at the time.

Yeah you're right. I was operating under misinformation that someone had given me that made sense at the time.

Thanks for the advice. I didn't even notice that mine only has the x1000 scale. Now I feel kind of stupid

You could hook them up to a ten billion watt amp if you wanted to. You're not going to blow your speakers unless you're either deaf, stupid, or enjoy listening to horribly distorted music. I'm not saying that it's going to sound better than good speakers would, I'm just saying that it's going...

Ok I'll give it a try. Maybe my meter just *****

Are you sure? I've got a 10 ohm speaker in front of me and my meter reads either zero or incredibly close to zero (it's analog so I can't be totally exact).

You may be right but I've done it in other vehicles and had it sound very much improved over the stock stereo. I had an old Chevy pickup with cheap paper 4x10's that sounded amazing with a good amp and a high-pass filter. I'm willing to try it out before I spend a couple hundred bucks and a...

I don't think you can just measure speaker impedance with a multimeter -- it'll just read zero ohms. Maybe there's some way to do it that I don't know about?

Hey does anyone happen to know what the impedance is on the stock 6.5" door speakers in a 2012 Chevy Cruze? I'd like to run all four with 2 channels on my amp, but it's only rated down to 2 ohms. So, I'm hoping the factory speakers are 4+ ohms, but I don't know for sure and don't want to fry...