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<blockquote data-quote="Stel" data-source="post: 3038896" data-attributes="member: 574698"><p>The speakers you are driving are probably 8 ohms since most home audio equipment is 6-8ohms. You'll need to find this out. A quick google of them shows 8 ohms. Car audio equipment is typically 2-4ohms. You can drive 8 ohm speakers with car amplifiers but you will likely be getting half of their 4 ohm rated power. If you were to hook 2 8 ohm speakers in parallel this would drop the resistance down to 4 ohms, but each speaker would be playing the same sound so it wouldn't be stereo. This is fine for subs but for the highs you will probably want stereo sound.</p><p></p><p>As mentioned above you should be looking into home theater/dj amplifier equipment since these will run off of 120v AC power and typically are made for 6-8ohm speaker loads. To use car amps you would need a 12v DC transformer that can handle the load and they're not cheap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stel, post: 3038896, member: 574698"] The speakers you are driving are probably 8 ohms since most home audio equipment is 6-8ohms. You'll need to find this out. A quick google of them shows 8 ohms. Car audio equipment is typically 2-4ohms. You can drive 8 ohm speakers with car amplifiers but you will likely be getting half of their 4 ohm rated power. If you were to hook 2 8 ohm speakers in parallel this would drop the resistance down to 4 ohms, but each speaker would be playing the same sound so it wouldn't be stereo. This is fine for subs but for the highs you will probably want stereo sound. As mentioned above you should be looking into home theater/dj amplifier equipment since these will run off of 120v AC power and typically are made for 6-8ohm speaker loads. To use car amps you would need a 12v DC transformer that can handle the load and they're not cheap. [/QUOTE]
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