Bringing a speaker down 10 db's..?

[Etac 10+ year member]

long story short.. i need to bring down a 4 ohm speaker down 9 db's using resistors..

how much resistance would i have to wire in series to accomplish this?

12? (16 with speaker)..?

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[adio25 10+ year member]

Volume knobs work nicely.

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

did you think of that all by yourself or did someone help you with that?

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Why are you doing this?

 

[Etac 10+ year member]

actually its for a set of house speakers (i know not car but still same thing)

im matching a tweeter/mid to a woofer.. and i need to bring the tweeter down 9 db's..

i know i could use an L pad but i was just gonna try to add inline resistors to do it.

edit: actually i do htink im doing it wrong, the way im doing it would be for parallel wiring and not series... series should just be three fours in a row.. i think?

 

[Bobfig 10+ year member]

look at a l-pad and wire it to the tweeter side and adjust the level as necessary. http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/searchResults.cfm?srchExt=CAT&srchCat=196&CFID=3040296&CFTOKEN=83849167

or use a crossover calculator like this http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-Lpad.htm

 

[Bobfig 10+ year member]

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