Wiring 8ohm tweet to 4ohm

[Jared530 10+ year member]

Ok this is pissing me off! All the tweets i want to order are 8ohm or some other impendence besides 4ohm. How can you wired these to 4ohm?

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[wyatt315 10+ year member]

cant

 

[WrenchGuy 10+ year member]

Your looking at the wrong ones.

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

fucking nigger. So im stuck with filtering out non-4ohm'ers?

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

It doesn't matter. Let's say they're 90dB efficient 1W/1M. With one watt of input you're already at 90dB. 2 watts 93dB. 4 watts 96dB. 8 watts 99dB. How much power do you really need to dump into it? More power is great for dynamics/transient attack and of course protection from clipping but it's still going to be plenty loud.

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

wat u lookin at?

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

wat u lookin at?

Im looking at the morels as well as the seas but they are all 8ohm and 6ohm respectively. But I really dont know if i should go with metal or a soft dome tweet. Quite frankly I dont know the difference im new to this department of CA. I listen to all rap if that helps

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

it's not going to take a ton of power to get your tweeters to sound good.

I will say headroom is a beautiful thing though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

What mid and crossover are you using, what's your budget for the tweeters?

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

Im just running passive with Mpyre 65M's and the xover that came with it. Running with a sax125.2. Budget for tweets probbaly ~65-75

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

Im just running passive with Mpyre 65M's and the xover that came with it. Running with a sax125.2. Budget for tweets probbaly ~65-75

This new information changes my answer from earlier then. Your new problem is now finding a tweeter with the exact same impedance profile that those passives were designed for. Go active.

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

This new information changes my answer from earlier then. Your new problem is now finding a tweeter with the exact same impedance profile that those passives were designed for. Go active.

How much work is going active? Everyone makes it sounds intimidating even though it sounds like it would be fun to work with. What crossovers would i need to buy? and would i need a 4ch instead of a 2ch?

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

How much work is going active? Everyone makes it sounds intimidating even though it sounds like it would be fun to work with. What crossovers would i need to buy? and would i need a 4ch instead of a 2ch?

It's really not that bad, just takes time and patience. Understanding slopes and phase behavior is a big plus but there are some safe routes one can take to get started. A convenient way to go is an active HU and yes you need one channel per driver, so for a two way active with a sub you will need a minimum of five channels.

Getting rid of all the reactive components that the passive crossovers were comprised of will let the amplifier provide better damping and will actually make more power available for the driver.

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

Why do you think 8 ohm is bad?

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

what you'll have to do is buy 2 pairs and run them parallel on both sides. boom 4 ohms. wtf is up w/ the N-bomb?