An Unlucky Shot
Auditioning
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- Nov 25, 2011
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- John
Hey, This is my first thread and I was hoping I could tap into you alls knowledge. I'm designing my own desk and am planning on placing the speakers inside the desk. I figured that in order to extend the life of the desk, it would be best to use car speakers because of their uniform sizing (making it easy to replace them without losing the desk) and clean look. Now, I selected some car component speakers. I also picked out a normal home audio sub. I'll also be using a normal home theater receiver. My question pertains to wiring this set up correctly. Obviously since the car speakers have 4 ohm resistance, I need to wire them in series. In order to have surround sound, I figured I could wire a speaker with a tweeter in series to create the needed 8 ohms. The component speakers come with a crossover, is wiring this as simply as receiver-->tweeter-->crossover-->speaker? Also, I've heard that having the tweeter facing you can sound bad. True? My other dilemma is that car speakers are always sold in pairs. I only need the car speakers for the left, center, and right channels. Which, unfortunately, as you math stars figured out, does not add up to an even number. Wouldn't doubling up on the center speakers be best? Now how would I wire two speakers and two tweeters to create an 8 ohm load? Can I wire a speaker and tweeter in series and then a pair of those in parallel? Does a thin plate of aluminum provide adequate magnetic shielding? Or do I need something more fallout shelter-esque? I assume that the sub causes no problems and that I can add normal home speakers to the receiver for the rear speakers without any issues as well. Did I miss anything? If you made it this far, thanks for reading the whole post.