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)
- The updated version of my Horn Shoppe Horns uses a series x-over - 1973shovel 00:55:25 11/04/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - mrdavis842 12:49:24 10/30/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - Rod M 14:04:40 10/03/14 (0)
- Series connection works fine - Duke 13:33:11 10/01/14 (1)
- RE: Series connection works fine - Presto 09:59:44 10/02/14 (0)
- DiAural crossover - Dave_K 09:15:15 09/30/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - BigguyinATL 07:07:56 09/30/14 (6)
- WRONG and WRONG - Duke 22:46:01 09/30/14 (4)
- RE: WRONG and WRONG - BigguyinATL 12:07:46 10/06/14 (1)
- RE: WRONG and WRONG - Duke 15:45:42 10/06/14 (0)
- Another Gedanken - manerac 15:44:09 10/01/14 (1)
- RE: Another Gedanken - Presto 10:04:14 10/02/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - manerac 11:43:21 09/30/14 (0)
- Actually - E-Stat 13:55:26 09/29/14 (5)
- RE: The Bose 901 uses 1 ohm speakers in series to provide a nominal 8 ohm impedance. - David S. 15:38:51 09/29/14 (4)
- RE: The Bose 901 uses 1 ohm speakers in series to provide a nominal 8 ohm impedance. - Awe-d-o-file 06:07:08 09/30/14 (3)
- RE: least offensive pieces of car audio. - David S. 07:07:11 09/30/14 (2)
- RE: "Bose amp failures". - 1973shovel 12:47:11 09/30/14 (0)
- RE: least offensive pieces of car audio. - Awe-d-o-file 08:36:49 09/30/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - Presto 08:27:28 09/29/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - jsch3 06:27:26 09/29/14 (3)
- A true "series crossover" . . . - Brian H P 10:50:23 09/29/14 (1)
- RE: A true "series crossover" . . . - neolith 08:47:23 10/01/14 (0)
- RE: Series connection of drivers in hi-fi speakers? - jackson 07:00:40 09/29/14 (0)