Ohms

Willow
Willow Posts: 11,060
edited May 2004 in Electronics
on my yammie should the setting be at 4 or 8 ohms if im pushing rti4 csi3s ??
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited May 2004
    Either will be fine. Technically you have 8ohm speakers however.

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited May 2004
    will it make a diff to the receiver ???

    and what does this mean exactly :
    High Dynamic Power, Low-Impedance Drive Capability
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited May 2004
    Originally posted by Willow
    will it make a diff to the receiver ???

    and what does this mean exactly :
    High Dynamic Power, Low-Impedance Drive Capability
    It shouldn't make a difference...your receiver is going to deliver the right amount of power in to the right impedance...

    Keep in mind that the impedance rating on a speaker is just the nominal rating. Although your speakers are 'rated' at 8 ohms, they'll drop to lower ohms when driving lower frequencey sounds...they have lower resistance at lower frequencies...

    As for the second part...it's just a fancy way of saying it's a capable amplifier. High dynamic power likely means that the receiver has a decent am0ount of amperage for each channel so that it can handle loud explosions and such...

    Low impedance just means it can 'handle' low impedence speakers. Some amps are not designed for low impedance speakers becuase when the speaker has low resistance, it 'draws, sort of" more power from the amp and some amps can't handle the load...
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited May 2004
    and what does this mean exactly
    :High Dynamic Power, Low-Impedance Drive Capability
    I would think it meant:
    1) power headroom for peaks
    2)ability to drive 4 ohm speakers
    or something very similar.
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited May 2004
    OK .... ya beat me to it while I was on the phone but I think we said the same thing :)
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited May 2004
    ok thanks ill leave it at 8 ohms and I miss understood what that it said I thought it was capable of all that but not guaranteed...thanks for the input
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