Does anyone know if these are 4 ohms? I am looking to use them on my home stereo system which is 8 ohm. What is max watts on these? thanks
272643
Just an FYI....I would stay away from these. I have now had two pair. One was a replacement and they are still garbage.
687717
Yes these are 4 ohms but work like 2 ohms but you just have to be careful and make sure your radio inst over heating or amp.
2124459
They are 4 ohm speakers. They need some power to drive them. They can be ran without an amp if the head unit has enough power. I would say a min of 30 watts per side but they will sound the best with 75 to 200 watts.
801537
The guy below is correct. It's rated for 8 ohms. It is a damn good stereo receiver for the price though. Don't let the namebrand fool you. I did hook up 6 ohm speakers to it though and it never really got hot. I never tried 4 ohm speakers though.
840067
I do believe these speakers are 4 ohm, it says 2ohm on the website, but the box that it come in says 4 ohms, these speakers are really nice, I still can't get over how clear they are, working on putting a small amp to these component speakers,
428913
4/8 ohm they work great I put them in my jeep on the dash to project sound towards me when the top is down.... Now I can hear the music again
1441434
No sorry I cannot answer that question, I will tell you that you will not be disappointed with there performance, I drive 2 of them with the pyle hybrid 3000 watt amp, which actually put out about 500 watts at 4 ohms, and the sound great, actually the amp fall short of being able to deliver what they can handle
1122831
Correct, the 75W output rating applies to 4 ohm speakers. At 8 ohms it's less. Manufacturer's data provided in a tnt-audio web review indicated 50W for each of two speakers at 8 ohms:Power Rating STEREO: 50wpc @ 8ohms, 75wpc @ 4ohms, 0.01% THD, full bandwidth MONO: 150watts @ 8ohms
1175268
Hello. At 4 ohms that amp provide 525 watts. That is plenty so I would just use both channels of your amp, on for each speaker. You would not want to bridge your amp with these speakers as you would then be providing 1550 watts at 4 ohms and would almost definitely blow the speakers. Also if you bridged your amp you would only have one channel. So either you would need two amps, or you would try to daisy chain these speakers and I don't believe that amp will work at 2 ohms.
1688514
The real question is do you normally run them with 200 watts of power?? The control is spec,ed at 100 watts. But for home use even to the most hearing impaired user Most folks will not use more than 20 / 30 working watts of power though the speakers are rated for 200 watts that just means that that is the peak excursion they should be able to tolerate without a failure. What is your amp rated at How many watts?? Knowing this how hard do you run it at?? a 200 watt amp run at half volume should deliver approximately 100 watts output power. I have 250 watt speakers and a 60 watt amp and can barely tolerate them run to 50 % past that I risk hearing damage and a visit by the local constabulary My speakers are really efficient. I am a believer that its not the power but the efficiency that rules. I do professional Sound reinforcement and rarely need to use more than 200 watts to the mids and that's to rock a crowd into the couple hundred. If you are truly using more than this consider building a more efficient system. My use of the volume control is to trim outdoor speakers rated at 50 w from an amp that outputs 25 watts
1464129
yes, just make sure they are 8 Ohm... Wattage is really the top end of how much power they can handle, the ohms is the impedance (think like resistance) if the impedance is too low, it is like shorting out an amplifier. Almost all speakers made today are 8 ohm. and 100 W of audio is way more power than is comfortable to listen to in any home setting.
114579
My Tech checked them, they are 6 ohm, however please understand that this is a complete Bose system, not intended to be used with other systems Amps, so if you were to use these speakers in any way that is not intended by Bose. And the speakers are damaged, I can not have them returned for a refund, I appreciate your interest, but must make this clear, as I said this is a complete Bose system, and not to be connected in any other way, thanks, Jack
2037874
These could barely handle the wattage from my cd player. Your amp is probably 2 ohm stable and is in 2 ohm when bridged 4 ohms when not. I have a 4 channel 2 ohm stable amp and that is how it is. I would not hook an amp up to these.
183773
I have them paired with a Marantz SR5001 8ohms, not sure of wattage but well over 25. These speakers are great! Distortion free even at high power level. Worth the money
255270
It is for sure 4 ohms.Here's an added source to help:http://www.polkaudio.com/products/db691(You will definitely need a 4 ohm stereo and/or an amplifier to power them adequately. I have both an amp and 4 ohm stereo: they sound great.)
2027471
These are passive speakers .All you are required to do is connect speaker wire from a receiver or amplifier. The electrical resistance of each speaker or ohms. I never really checked. HOWEVER ,due to the cheap cost of these speakers I am confidently predicting that they are 8 ohms. Only if they are connected in parallel with the receiver will the electrical resistance be change to 4 ohms.
2265983
I consider 75 RMS 2 ohms is fine. I think this speakers are overrated. I use them long time ago with my alpine V-POWER series amp, calculating 100 RMS 2 ohms per channel and soon burned the tweeters.Before that, I used 60-70 RMS per channel and everything was perfect.sorry for my bad english LOL