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Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers?

Howdy there! I'm fooling around with some fairly modern commercial speakers which (AFAICT) have some of the drivers connected in series. I've never seen this before, or even heard of it. But why not? Assuming you can weasel your way to calling it an 8 ohm speaker without laughing too hard, what are the drawbacks here?

I think the Bottlehead Straight 8 used a series parallel configuration, at least at some version of it...? But I can't turn up any discussion about this subject outside of guitar amps, car audio and so on. Would appreciate a link or resource if you can recommend anything.

My speakers are four driver, three-ways and the two mids are series wired (or seem to be!)

Thanks in advance for any thoughts about this :)



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Topic - Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - jackson 04:51:09 09/29/14 (24)

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